I slept for at least three hours longer than usual last
night which was a result. I got up and stood on the scales and saw I’d put on a
pound, which wasn’t quite so much the result.
I made toast and had a look at the Internet. I had an
email. Our new county councilor has been appointed deputy cabinet member for
the Environment, and he claims he’s on the case about the flooding at the Asda
underpass. He’s also said that the council is overspent and that he “will
need to at times think outside the box” but he also says “thankfully,
I'm up for the challenge”. Maybe he is. He certainly replies to emails in a
fraction of the time his predecessor took. To my mind he’s got two things to
do. Stop Operation Brock, and stop the floods. Will he do it? Time will tell.
It always does.
I Munzed and Wordled. There was a minor episode as Morgan
wouldn’t get out of bed for his brekkie, and then I took the dogs out.
We drove up to Kings Wood only to find the road from the
A251 to the woods was closed. I could have taken a serious diversion to come in
to White Hill from the other end. It was as well that I didn’t – the entire road was closed. Instead we
kept going. As we drove I thought about Perry Wood, but the trouble with that
place is that the car park is right in the middle, and wherever you walk you
aren’t far from a road. And there’s a lot of hills involved.
Instead we went to Longbeech Woods where we walked for
nearly three miles and my birdsong app detected a dozen birds including a duck
and four tits(!)
With walk walked we came home for a cuppa, then I went
shopping. I need some shirts for work. Long sleeved casual ones with a breast
pocket. Tesco had none, and neither did Asda. I had a look in the outlet
centre. They had some… but even at their bargain reduction price they were
still about for times the price I’d be prepared to pay.
I came home, went on eBay and got two shirts for a third of
the price the shops in the outlet centre wanted for one, wrote up some CPD, then had a
little look in the garden. I cleaned out the little pond’s filter then gave the
little cupboard and seat by the big pond a lick of paint.
I could have carried on pootling, but over the last few
weeks and months I’ve rather overdone it, so I came in and spent an hour or so
playing bots at chess. I’ve been doing this quite a bit recently; a week or so
ago I started playing a bot which is supposedly better than the one I’d been
playing previously; it doesn’t seem to be.
We had planned a little walk this evening, but the rain put
us off. “er indoors TM” boiled up some dinner which
we scoffed whilst watching the latest episode of “Race Across the World”
in which the contestants crossed northern India with varying degrees of
success.
Today’s been a rather good day off work, but I’m going to
work for a rest tomorrow.
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