14 Movember 2025 (Friday) - Doing Housework

I had maybe three hours sleep last night. I got up and made toast and peered into the Internet. Facebook is my usual go-to, but it seemed to be having an episode. As well as telling me I had thousands of notifications but not showing me any, it told me about the same birthdays it old me yesterday and my so-called “news” feed was filled with stuff from weeks ago. But I did see one thing that made me think. Cereals, getting married, going to the gym, soap, beer and restaurants all seem to be in decline.
Mind you, the Facebook bots were well aware that I’d been looking at Infinity Tables yesterday judging by the amount of adverts I had for them.
 
The plan for the morning was (as always) to take the dogs out, but it was a bit damp outside, so instead I cracked on with a geo-project. There’s plans afoot for a big series of Adventure Labs, and I got my contribution ready. The plan is for it to be released on an unsuspecting public some time in the New Year.
The dogs weren’t happy at our not going out… I decided against going to the woods. With heavy rain showers forecast I didn’t want to be stuck in a torrential downpour in a swamp two miles from the car. So “er indoors TM joined us this morning and we took four dogs (Pogo had a little sleepover last night) round the local roads having a little Munzee session. I say “little” – we walked nearly two miles and Munzed over forty times.
 
We came home for a cuppa. I got Wordle (lurid) on the third attempt then had a look at planning tomorrow’s booze-up… The plan was to meet up with my brother for a beer or two in Rye. But what with it being the bonfire procession tomorrow evening the last train comes back to Ashford at quarter to three in the afternoon. You’d think that there would be thousands of potential customers an they’d put on extra trains, wouldn’t you? But no – they are topping the trains altogether, Go figure.
 
“My Boy TM and ”Auntie Chel TM came to visit and use the shower. They’ve got issues with their boiler in that something inside it has melted and is giving off iffy fumes.
With them scrubbed we put the world to rights. At the moment there’s a lot in our world which needs putting to rights. One day I will elaborate… but not today.
 
And with them off to get grubby again and the drizzle getting worse we had something of a dull day doing housework. We cleared the shelves of dragons and Lego, had a good dust around, cleared away all the other assorted rubbish which had been put on shelves and left, and then put it all back together again. It only took three hours.
We had a bit of toast for a late lunch, then cracked on with more shelf clearing/cleaning. We cleared out the shelves behind the telly. Amongst other tat I found a pair of glasses from six years ago.
 
I had a little sleep, and then put the telly on and watched something on the Film 4 channel. I can remember going to the cinema many years ago to see Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 and thinking it was brilliant. Now… it’s an entertaining film, but the plot has got more holes than my socks.
As I watched the daleks so I scoffed a bowl of peanuts…
 
“er indoors TM boiled up a very good bit of dinner which we scoffed whilst watching the final of Taskmaster. It was rather good, but my innards are giving me gyp. I blame the peanuts…
 
Oh – and if you give a bung of twenty quid or more to the stupid moustache thingy, the nice people at Pringles will match your donation.
If you want to give a donation to it, here’s the links (again)…
I’m nearly up to two hundred quid…
 

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