BEWARE

That's what the leaflet that's just dropped on the door mat says. In big dark grey letters on a bright red background.

I'm not sure I want to pick it up. I do.

It's all about protecting council tenant' right to buy. Odd. This has never been a council house: it was built by the gas company in the days before British Gas and has been in private ownership for a reasonably long time. I suppose it's a catch all, since there is at least one housing association owned property in the terrace.

Could be worse, I suppose. I might be about to bump into an old beggar who hasn't stepped out of my way because he doesn't know about my leprosy.... Oh, that's Thomas Covenant.

Lazy or Left-Handed?

We assume it's not recommended operating procedure, and probably unnecessary wear and tear on the mechanisms involved, to restart the CD (why didn't we just give in first thing and put it on repeat play?) by opening the "drawer" (tray?) and shutting it (two presses of a button and a shove to the open drawer) rather than pressing the Play button (one push of button). But the Eject button's on its own to the far left (though not farthest left) of the CD player, whilst the Play button is somewhere over to the right, and in amongst other buttons whose labels we can't read and whose locations we haven't memorised.

Lazy or cack-handed? Both, maybe.

Though not so lazy that the CD is playing in one of the PC's drives (one for the OED permanently in place (best birthday present ever) and the other for whatever's needed temporarily).

But a southpaw (claw?), definitely.