Holiday chic

Packing for holiday can be tricky but could get a whole lot harder if you tried to enact the idea behind Kate Imbach's new Tumblr – matching book to swimsuit. Now have to give on Bring Up The Bodies or accept that the bikini will be pretty bling.

Earring watch

Never mind the amazing manicures. It's the earrings we're watching: big 80s style studs from Team GB weightlifter Zoe Smith, pearls from cyclist Lizzie Armitstead and even swimmer Missy Franklin. All that swimsuited streamlining... and then earrings!

Friendship dilemmas

A group of you are friends, but only one of you has Olympics tickets. Who to take? There should be an algorithm or something for trying to please all your friends with one spare ticket.

Summer

Er, so, was that it? And now back to the indoor barbecues?

Trainspotting on TV

Irvine Welsh has told the Daily Record he is in talks to turn Trainspotting into a TV series - with the same actors who were in the film. Will it still work?