I had something of a lie-in this morning, finally getting
up at about half past eight. I opened the second window of my Lego Advent
Calendar. A bulldozer. What was I supposed to do with that? The early ones in
the Advent Calendar set the course of the story, so the pressure is always on
at the start of the month.
I had a shave. Oh, how I’ve missed that. I made toast and
had a look at the internet as I do most mornings. It was still there.
This morning’s squabble was over a conspiracy theory about
how what is considered to be a “normal” blood pressure reading has got
lower over time; presumably in order to sell more anti-hypertensive drugs. The
fact of the matter is that over time more and more blood pressure readings have
been taken on more and more reliable devices which have given more reliable
normal ranges, But as is usually the way, the most stupid and uneducated a
person, the more vehemently they were advocating utter bollox. As Neil Innes
once said, how sweet to be an idiot.
Ideally we would have gone for a walk in the woods this
morning. Usually when time is pressing we go to Orlestone, but as I found
yesterday the place is a swamp. So with no time to go to Kings Wood we just
walked round the local streets. I don’t really like any walk when Morgan is on
the lead – he becomes an idiot. He always tries to pick fights with dogs with
which he would play or ignore when off the lead.
It only took quarter of an hour to walk round the block.
We came home for the monthly flea treatments. I can’t
pretend the dogs like their flea treatments, but they don’t run and hide like
Treacle used to. And then I had a minor fight with Bailey. Last week the Doggy
Dentist found her gums were rather sore. Yesterday the special dental ointment
arrived, and applying the stuff was something of a game. Fortunately she is
small enough that I can manage on my own. She wasn’t at all keen… until she
tasted it. Maybe the next time might be easier?
I Munzed, and Wordled through maybe, tails, ratio and faith
before getting cacti on the fifth attempt. I posted up today’s Advent
adventure and wrote up some CPD.
As I pootled on-line so there was a knock on the door. The
Royal Mail postie had our Amazon delivery. Quite a bit of stuff from Amazon
comes via Royal Mail. I suspect that the Amazon deliveries go a long way to
keeping Royal Mail in business.
I struggled with a puzzle on chess dot com, then got ready
for work.
It was rather bright and sunny as I drove off to
work. With nothing of note on the radio I sang along to my MP3s.
I considered a little geo-adventure, but thought
better of it. Instead I went to the Sainsbury's petrol station at Aylesford
where I topped up, and got a tad miffed. Last week when I went to Sainsbury's I
got given a voucher for double nectar points when I next got petrol with them.
So I got the voucher out... and it wasn't valid. Pretty much every time I
shop at Sainsburys I get these vouchers which are either worth money off of
stuff I never buy, or they don't actually work.
I then drove on to work... very conscious that the car
behind was incredibly close. As I drove I realised that the chap driving the
car was shouting. Every time I slowed or stopped (and there are a lot of
reasons to slow and stop along Hermitage Lane) so the chap got more and
more worked up, waving his fists and making obscene gestures.
He followed me as I drove into the hospital, and
followed me to the staff car park where he couldn't get through the barrier.
Which was probably for the best. I was in the mood for a good argument. And
looking at the state of the chap I think I could probably have laid him out
with a swift one up the bracket (which I would have claimed was self-defence).
I went in to work and did my bit; for all that we had
a busy day today, it was a rather good one. But it is always good to see the relief
arrive.
I drove home tuned to Radio 4 Extra on which Russell
Tovey was playing the
Admirable Crichton. It was probably as well that the DAB signal failed
completely after ten minutes; it wasn’t very good…
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