I slept through till half past four which, bearing in
mind I had an alarm set, wasn’t bad at all. I was wide awake, so I got up, made
toast and watched an episode of “The Young Ones”. As I watched I sorted
the undercrackers which I’d washed and dried last night. “er
indoors TM” sorts dinner, I sort
the undercrackers. It suits me just fine.
I had a look at the internet to see if I’d missed
much. I hadn’t really. There was a bit of a squabble on one of the Facebook
pages I follow which is about the Poldark books. Someone claiming to be the
biggest fan of the series had never actually read any of the books, but had the
TV show on DVD…
I sent birthday wishes to my brother – he was the
first one to get next year’s birthday video. I wonder if the card we posted
yesterday arrived.
I Munzed, and got ready for work. Some people don’t go
back for another week… To be honest I’d rather have time off work when it suits
me, not when it is cold and it is dark by mid-afternoon.
I set off to work through the rain. The weather
forecast had been for a dry morning. Ho hum... I stopped off at the co-op to
get lunch. Getting lunch at the co-op is something of an adventure in that if I
go to Sainsburys they are far better stocked, and I get what I want and
consequently I have the same thing every day (coronation chicken sandwich
followed by carrot batons with humous dip). The co-op is never well-stocked at
half past six, and so I have to have what they've got, and so I get something different
each time. This morning it was a cheese and ham sandwich with chicken satay
sticks.
I drove up the motorway listening to the morning's
business news. The business news always amazes me; I really should formally
study economics to understand how it all works. Every time I listen to the
business news they talk about the share prices and market confidence and the
personality of the head honchos of the various firms. They never (and I
seriously mean *never*) talk about the actual quality of the products of
the companies that are doing well or going under. What these companies sell
would seem to be utterly unconnected to their commercial success.
Take Guinness for example. Type "Is the
Guinness company doing well?" into Google and you will see that they
are laughing all the way to the bank. However over the last few weeks I've
tried about ten different stouts, and Guinness is by far the worst of the
bunch. Don't get me wrong - it's not a bad drop. But pints like the
Badger brewery's Master Stoat, Hobgoblin's Dark Stout or ever Sainsburys own
Taste the Difference Chocolate Orange stout are far better. I've done blind
taste tests on Guinness fans recently (last week) who were very surprised to
realise just how poor their preferred drink compares to its
competitors. However the makers of those competing stouts are clearly
doing something wrong as a far better product clearly doesn't make far better
profits.
And there was a lot of talk about
toilet ghosts which would seem to be a big thing in Japan. Apparently
Japanese children regularly bang three times on the door of the third toilet
stall from the wall in any public lavatory, and chant “Are you there
Hanako-san?"... and desperately hope that no one replies. Because if
she answers, Hanako-san will ask them to play and will kill them as part of the
game. However if she doesn't answer then the children run the risk of being
eaten by a three-headed lizard.
Personally I would keep quiet, but what do I know?
Harry Potter never had that problem with Moaning Myrtle.
And it would seem that the UK hedgehog population is
in serious decline.
I went in to the early shift and did my thing. We were
far busier than we used to be back in the day between Christmas and the New
Year, but still nowhere near as busy as usual. A lot of people really do hold
off going to see the doctor when it doesn't suit them. I'm reminded of a GP's biography I once read
in which a GP with many years of experience claimed that ninety per cent
of the patients who came to him would get better anyway regardless of anything
he might do.
At lunch break I scoffed what I'd bought earlier. It
was rather good. And it was then that I had a message from the geo-feds. I
thought there would be issues with setting up an EarthCache at Camber Castle...
The first hurdle is that the place is a scheduled ancient monument and as such
I will need formal permission from English Heritage. It's rather silly because
anyone doing the EarthCache would be doing so as they walked along a public
footpath. Loads of people do that every day already and don't need any formal
permission, but rules is rules. I've sent the nice people at English Heritage
an email. I got an automated reply... I didn't expect to get anything back from
them properly until the New Year, but when I came home I had a reply saying
that my query had been forwarded to the appropriate department, so that’s a step
in the right direction.
I’ve got a sore throat… hope I’m not sickening for
something…
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