We were rather late getting up this morning… can’t imagine
why. I made toast and had a look at the Internet as I do. There was no end of
talk about the new Star Trek Lego set that was released a few days ago. The
long-awaited Enterprise-D model has come out. Costing several hundred pounds,
personally I think the thing looks dreadful. But everyone was all a-twitch
about the typos in the set’s stickers.
Leaving aside the hyphen between NCC and 1701 that shouldn’t be there,
the word “boldly” is mis-spelt. I suspect
that future versions will be corrected, and the mis-spelling will just add to
the value of the first edition sets. Some people pay far too much for Lego, and
also for Star Trek memorabilia, and first editions of this set will be worth
thousands in a few short years… unless I buy one as an investment in which case
it won’t be worth anything…
“er indoors TM” set off up to
town to meet friends for brekkie. I didn’t. I scoffed quite a few calories last
night, and I find that all the cafes in the town centre echo so much that I
can’t hear a word that is being said. So I Munzed, Wordled (fugue on the
fourth attempt) and read my Kindle for a bit before walking the dogs up to
town to meet her.
There were quite a few people in town this morning. I saw a
load of people round the war memorial. Back in the day I used to take the cubs
up to that ceremony. These days I probably wouldn’t; it’s all got a little bit
too political…
We took a circuitous walk home past the park and round the
local roads. The dogs needed their outing, and we Munzed as we walked, opening
Qrates and freeing cubimals as you do. As we walked, a passing cyclist boiled
my piss. I used to cycle to and from work for years; I’m not unsympathetic to
them. But more and more they are just accidents waiting to happen, and when the
accidents happen everyone loudly claims it isn’t the cyclist’s fault. Take this
morning’s half-wit. Both hands on his phone and not one on the handlebars,
cycling down the wrong side of the road looking down at his phone and being
unable to hear anything at all because of the ear-buds.
We got home, had a cuppa, then I had a pootle in the
garden. It was probably too wet to mow the lawn, but I mowed it anyway. It
wasn’t going to get any drier if I’d left it, and the shorter the grass, the
easier it is to find dog turds. Whilst I was at it I pruned the potted shrubs.
I might plant them in the ground next spring; I might leave them in the tubs,
We shall see. And whilst I was at it I cleaned out the big pond’s filter. I
topped up the bird feeder, and seeing how well the bird seed I’d planted in the
lawn had sprouted, I planted some more seeds in the bare patches of the lawn. And
then I made a point of stopping. Over the last year I’ve overdone it in the
garden too many times and hurt for several days afterwards.
I made us both a cuppa, then had a little look at the
Internet. My Lego pirate ship is missing one latticed window. I can’t find a
spare anywhere, so I ordered one… finding the exact part took some doing, but I
eventually found it. And I ordered a Lego tulip petal too as we’d managed to
lose one of those as well.
I found myself watching what was on the telly – the last of
the Harry Potter films. I couldn’t believe that was made fourteen years ago.
And we followed this with the first episode of “Game
of Wool” which is basically “Bake Off” but with knitting rather
than cooking. It was strangely captivating…
Yesterday was rather full-on. In comparison, today has been
rather dull.
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