I
was again up far too early this morning, and on finding no episodes
of Dad's Army on the SkyPlus box (Saturday's episode was cancelled
because of the tennis at Wimbledon) I put on an episode of the
Irish equivalent of "The Joy of Painting".
Effectively it was Bob Ross with a brogue... in the past I've been
scathing about the program but it grows on you.
Today
the star of the show was painting over the top of a pre-existing
picture. An interesting idea; I should get my paints out again and
have a go.
I
set off to work. The news was abuzz with all sorts of stories. The
referendum has caused some chaos; not least of which in
the Labour party. The leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has been told in no
uncertain terms to resign by pretty much all the Labour MPs. But as
he was elected by a landslide majority of the membership of the
Labour party he was refusing to go.
I'm
sure he's a decent chap, but the press have clearly decided against
him. There is never a news article about him in which he is not made
out to be an idiot. And there was a *lot* of scandal following his
election with all sorts of allegations that loads of Conservative
supporters had joined the Labour party purely to elect a twit as the
leader.
It
is sad that history repeats itself. In the 1980s the Labour party
deliberately made itself unelectable, and it is doing so again.
There
was also talk of loads of deposits
of helium having been found in Tanzania. That will put a spanner
in the works for the space program. With a world wide shortage of the
stuff helium mining on the Moon looked to be the only way to secure a
supply of the stuff, and consequently something in which private
enterprise might invest.
But
Tanzania is much easier to get to...
As
I drove along the A28 this morning I was very conscious of a van not
five yards from my back bumper all the way. if any of my loyal
readers need new floorings I wouldn't advise Clarks floors &
carpets.
I
got to work, and spent quite a bit of the day looking out the window.
The morning was one of bright sunshine and the forecast rain which
was due to start at mid day didn't start. There was a geo-walk
planned for the afternoon. I would have liked to have gone along but
getting the afternoon off had proved to be a tad problematical.
Mind
you the rain did start when I was on my way home, and I got rather
wet whilst walking "Furry Face TM"
round the park this evening.
I
then spent a little while planning for the weekend's geo-rally. We've
not had one of those before. I *think* we can visit eight counties...
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