I had an alarm set last night; I barely slept. I woke
shortly after midnight and saw every quarter of an hour after that. Eventually
I gave up (as I so often do), got up, made toast and scoffed it whilst
watching telly. In today's instalment of "Danger UXB" our hero
got given the heave-ho by the mad professor's daughter which was probably a
triumph for morality but a bit of a smack in the kisser for our hero.
Having heard the bin men making a racket as I'd
watched telly I was expecting problems getting out of the road, but the bin men
were suddenly nowhere to be seen when I drove off.
As I drove there was something on the radio about
"farm-sitters"; people who come and look after farms whilst
the farmers go off on holiday. I suppose it could have been quite interesting
had the farm-sitter being interviewed not ermm... said ermmm... between
ermmm... everything ermmm... he ermmm... said.
I've mentioned before that those who bring people onto
national radio really should vet the interviewees beforehand.
There was also an interview with the chap who runs the
Magnum ice cream corporation. I mentioned the other day that they've not turned
out to be quite as profitable as had been hoped. It turns out that some years
ago the Magnum people bought out Ben and Jerries, and the people behind Ben and
Jerries want it back. It turns out there's quite a lot of bitterness in the ice
cream world.
I got three quarters of the way to work and suddenly
found the A21 completely bunged up. Fortunately I know the roads reasonably
well and managed a crafty diversion through Matfield, and went on to Tesco
where I got some Christmas supplies in. Today they had people working the tills
which was probably for the best bearing in mind Tuesday's debacle.
I started work seven minutes before sunrise.
Work was surprisingly hard work today. I was rather glad when home time came.
Home time was seven minutes before sunset. Google Maps told me that whatever
the hold-up had been this morning had cleared, and I believed it… right up to
the point where I met the traffic jam five miles up the road from the hold-up.
I took another crafty diversion through Matfield.
Once home I plonked myself on the sofa and peered at
the telly. Days at work can be dull…
Meanwhile “er indoors TM” has
gone outside to take photos of the aurora. Not that there’s any there, and if
there was the clouds are in the way…
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