Yesterday I wore my wellies for the first time this
autumn. This morning as I had a shave I realised that the central heating had
kicked in. Summer is definitely on the way out.
As I scoffed toast I peered into Facebook and saw
quite a few posts about the “Unite
the Kingdom” rally that took place in
London yesterday involving a hundred thousand people. Some were exercising
their democratic right to protest about the scale of immigration to the UK.
Some just wanted to march round London shouting hate. Fear of the foreigner is
human nature, but yesterday’s rally was a tad extreme. What many of those
marching failed to realise is that once they have had the fist fight for which
they are so clearly looking. they will have to wait longer and longer in
A&E to be stitched back together as more and more of the immigrant workers
doing the skilled jobs in the UK are going back to their countries of origin as
they no longer feel safe here. (A colleague of over twenty years left for
this very reason last week).
I also can’t help but wonder why the chap who organised the rally
has to use so many aliases.
I’m not saying that this rally didn’t have a point.
Uncontrolled immigration needs to be addressed, and no government of the last
twenty years has achieved much. I suppose it is yet another failure of
democracy in that we get the leadership we vote for, and who’s going to be
stupid enough to stand for public office?
“er indoors TM” and
the dogs got up and we went into the garden. Treacle has to be supervised in
the garden now. She found a frog out there the other day and now we don’t so
much have a back garden as a frog hunting zone. So gets a tad obsessive.
I Munzed. Wordled, and planned for the day.
We had vaguely planned a walk round Faversham
yesterday, but instead we thought we’d try some woods near Biddenden. There
were a few challenge geocaches there. I can’t say I’m a fan of challenge
geocaches – some are easy enough to do, but others involve having found silly
amounts of obscure geocaches. But we found a series of five for which we
qualified for three. And it made for a decent dog walk. It was a shame that I
clouted my head rather badly on a low tree, and that the actual footpaths in
the woods bore little (if any) relation to those marked on the Ordnance
Survey maps. But the dogs had a good walk.
From the woods we drove past two more caches – 3-D
printed gadgets which took a little brain-straining to open.
We then went on to the tap room of the
McCann’s brewery. I’ve seen signposts to the place
as I’ve driven to Tunbridge Wells, and eventually we got round to calling in
today. We had a couple of pints of rather good beer, and a pizza too.
I took a few photos as we went here and
there.
We came home where Bailey went straight into the bath;
she was filthy. Despite the earlier pizza we still had a Sunday roast (diet?
– what diet?)
I’ve now got a lazy evening sitting in front of the
telly having forgotten all those silly jobs that need doing. There’s a ton of
things that I need to do, and I could do when I am otherwise bored and wasting
time sitting in front of the telly. I always remember them when I’m at work or
in the car…
I know I’ve a ton of things to do… I just can’t
remember any of them…
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