I heard “er indoors TM” get up in
the night. Presumably she didn’t discover any little accidents? I then slept
through till seven o’clock when I got up, made toast and had a look at the
Internet. It was still there, and remarkably quiet for once. No one seemed to
be bickering over triviality, but my piss did boil over one of the twee memes
being posted. As I have said before I have often been told that when life hands
me lemons I should make lemonade. However I have rarely (if ever) been
told that by anyone who has ever even seen a lemon, let alone been handed one.
I perused the geo-map, Munzed, and started Wordle with “lemon”
which gave me no letters whatsoever. “Strap” gave me the R, but in the
wrong place. “Brick” gave me the correct place for the R (but nothing
else), and with precious few letters left I got it with “Gruff” on the
fourth attempt.
As I Munzed and Wordled so Steve was on the radio. He said
that the weather would chirp up by the evening, and then did the “Guess the
Lyrics” competition. “And I was there and not dancing with anyone”
No? – “Chain Reaction” by Diana Ross.
The earlier heavy rain had eased up somewhat by the time we
set off to Dog Club, and stopped by the time we got there. Sadly it had been
bad enough to put people off of going, and we had perhaps the lowest turn-out
of the year. But nevertheless nine dogs had a great (if rather muddy)
time.
As we drove home Steve was doing the “Mystery Year”
competition on the radio, The release of the twenty pence piece and the
Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands? 1982. I can remember getting my
first ever twenty pence piece; it was in a little shop in Brighton. I’d no idea
that a twenty pence piece was a thing, and only accepted it for the novelty
value. I took it back to college, showed the rest of my class and was suddenly
quite the centre of attention.
And I remember the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland
Islands. I can remember that a lot of people had no idea where the Falkland
Islands were (and still are), and a surprising number of people I knew
thought they were somewhere off the coast of Scotland with the Orkneys and the
Shetlands.
There was a serious dog bath session when we got home; the
dogs were filthy. As were we. A load of clothes went into the washing machine,
and with “er indoors TM” off to the cinema with Cheryl I
settled in to doing the ironing. And with ironing ironed I cuddled with Bailey
on the sofa watching more episodes of “Brideshead Revisited” until “er
indoors TM” returned. There wasn’t much else I might
have done – the rain had returned with a vengeance.
She didn’t return for long; she went out on a shopping
trip, and I carried on slobbing on the sofa watching more “Brideshead
Revisited”.
Have you ever watched it? I’ve seen it so many times I know
what everyone is going to say, but it is such a good story I will probably
carry on watching it time and time again. The original book is a firm favourite
of mine too.
“er indoors TM” returned and
spent a little while taking photos of the sunset. It was a very pretty one;
just a shame it happened so early in the afternoon. Mind you it’s less than a
month till the shortest day so this can’t really be a surprise.
I played the bots at chess dot com a few times, and
seriously struggled. The level one thousand bot is rather good. “er
indoors TM” left me home alone again going off to see
her mum. I thought better of going; for all that I’d had something of a lazy
day I felt like continuing. Either I’d been sitting awkwardly on the sofa
earlier or I’ve been overdoing the walking. But whichever it was, my hips had
been giving me gip I didn’t fancy exerting them any more than I needed to. Hips
can be dodgy.
Instead I cuddled with Bailey on the sofa and watched more “Brideshead
Revisited”…
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