The new - or unnoticed - bench

When walking to college a couple of days ago, I noticed this bench along a main road:

I am 99% certain that it has replaced an old bench that was there as recently as a week ago. That or I have somehow been missing a bench for three months now. What brought it to my attention was the shiny gold-coloured lion's head on the side.

As a bonus, I thought that the image of the bench was worth enhancing through the HDR filter on SnapSeed.

The splitting chair

The chair for my desk is starting to split.

That's right. The plastic material covering the seat part of my chair has begun to split; left unchecked, it will continue to split, which will cause it to break off in flakes and it will then have to vacuumed off the floor. Fortunately, the problem can be contained by placing a cushion over the seat, which I have done.

This is not the first time that this has happened to me. My previous chair began to split and flake away (the two chairs came from a dinner table set and were not expensive), and had to be replaced with the chair I use now. I didn't bother to use a cushion last time and the chair deteriorated to the point where it became unusable.

Of course, this is not a major problem in the long run. Just a mere annoyance and something to write about.