I first met you hanging knickers on the line

So, last night, being a wild and crazy sort of individual, I thought I'd do some washing. Rummaging through the laundry bin, sorting things into loads, I realised that a lot of my favourite clothes were lurking in a carrier bag in there - the things which belong in that most annoying of categories: handwash only.

I boldly started on the handwashing, but rapidly lost interest. I eyed up the pile of white and cream things, and decided they could take their chance in a 30-degree program in the washer. In they went, looking a little frightened, with me doing my best to reassure them that they'd be OK.

Later on, the first thing out the machine was my lovely, embroidered white overshirt. It had, of course, survived the wash perfectly. However, the tomatoes (or something) I'd spilt down the front hadn't come out :(

The label insists the shirt should be handwashed at 30, and it's already been through a machine at 30. The label tells me the shirt is "100% RAMIO/RAMIE/ROSTSZAL (RAMIO)" (I assume one of those is English?) Does anyone have any useful recommendations for getting stubborn tomatoey stains out of a (potentially) fragile material ? To be honest, I'm expecting that the fragility is down to the embroidery, not the material itself.

Everything else survived the washer, too. Of course. Bloody attention-seeking handwash-only garments.

Please send me spam...

... er, yes, really.

If anyone's got any examples of threatening chain e-mails[*] they've received recently, please can they chuck them in my direction ? I'm not after icky sentimental lets-all-share-the-love chains, Nigerian wotsits or mails which just request you to forward them to everyone you know.

I'm going to send the chain mails to my mother. No, she hasn't upset me - but she's wanting some more examples because she's writing an article about them

[*] Threatening in the sense of "if you don't send this to six million people in the next three minutes, your hamster will explode".