I had a relatively early night last night and got an
hour’s sleep before “er indoors TM” and
the dogs came up. There was a minor squabble with the dogs, then just as
everyone was getting settled someone trod on Bailey.
I then saw every twenty minutes from then on. I gave
up trying to sleep at half past four, got up, made toast and watched an episode
of “This is England”. It was a Christmas one, and was thoroughly
depressing.
I had a little look at the Internet. It was still
there. Nothing much had happened overnight… or by six o’clock anyway. But I was
slightly surprised. Usually every time I look up anything on the Internet I am
then inundated with adverts for whatever it was. Infinity tables, Lego, DVD
boxed sets… I was expecting endless adverts for fish tank plants and snails,
but nothing.
I Munzed. I wordled from “short” through “hairy”
to getting it with “myrrh” on the third go. But, to be honest, what
other words have a y in them but not at the end?
I opened my Advent Calendar and got ready for work.
I got into my car and sat and waited for the bin lorry
to get out of the way so that I could drive off... and the very second it moved
a few yards up the road, some idiot drove his car to where the bin lorry had
been. He then sat and glared at me as though it was my fault that the bin lorry
was blocking the road. I smiled sweetly as I watched this chap's blood pressure
go through the roof. He clearly wasn't happy about having to wait for the bin
lorry to get out of the way.
I drove up the motorway through the Operation Brock
stupidity. There's talking of moving Operation Brock
to the bit of the motorway between Ashford and Folkestone. That would
suit me just fine... all the time I am going to work and not going to
Folkestone.
As I drove the pundits on the radio were talking about
how the EU is going to lend the Ukrainian government ninety
billion Euros. I say "lend" - apparently no money will be
repaid until the Ukrainian government gets reparations from the invading
Russians... that ain't going to happen, is it? Apparently the Europeans weren't
brave enough to give the Ukrainians the two hundred billion Euros of Russian
assets that they've frozen. I can't say I blame them. I must admit that
if I were Mr. Putin I'd be seeing this European funding of the war against him
as tantamount to a declaration of war in itself.
I drove up to Sainsburys to get some lunch and some
supplies. I was rather surprised to smell "funny fags" as I
got out of the car. For all that it is supposedly still illegal, I'm smelling
the stuff pretty much everywhere I go.
I got to work. I did my bit. Bearing in mind how wet
it had been for much of yesterday I looked out of the window and sulked. In
between working I did my e-learning. I learned about CPR... apparently if
you are trying to resuscitate "a person with breasts" you are
allowed to touch "the breasts" whilst performing chest
compressions. One lives and learns. I must admit that if someone was
about to croak, allegations about goosing up the jubbllies would be rather lower
down the list of concerns than having them croaking. Also I thought everyone
had breasts; just some people's (women's) were a tad jubblier than
others (men's), but what do I know.
With work worked I came home through Operation Brock
again. Once home as a special treat we had KFC for tea. Their Gravy Box was
rather good, and only (!) eight hundred calories.
I’ve spent much of today thinking about an old friend.
I first met Phil at primary school when I was five years old. We went through
school together, we were in the Boys Brigade together. In my Advent Calendar
today I had Frosty the Snowman. Whenever it snowed he would sing his song about
Frosty the Snowman:
“Frosty the Snowman
Lost his left ball in a fight
Then by a strange coincidence
The same happened to the right
Frosty the Snowman
A happy little soul
Give the f…er any lip
He’ll kick you up the a… hole”
He would sing this, barely pausing for breath, for
three miles through the snow on our way to school, and for three miles through
the snow on the way home after.
He moved to Sweden about forty years ago. There’s a
lot of snow there, and presumably lots of snowmen.
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