Last night I did that thing I do so often; I woke
before two o’clock feeling full of energy and raring to go, and then dozed on
and off for the rest of the night. I got up at five o’clock and watched an
episode of “Boots” as I scoffed toast. Today I scoffed it with apricot
jam. “er
indoors TM” went shopping last
night and came home with the stuff. I can remember it being far better than it
was this morning.
With telly watched I had a little look at the Internet
as I do. It was still there. For some reason I my Facebook feed this morning
was flooded with adverts for the Church of England who were taking the line
that because atheists couldn’t disprove the existence of their god, then
atheists were clearly wrong. I’m not quite sure how that works? Personally I’d
take the evidence of Eric the
God-eating penguin which disproves the existence of
God (engage logic mode…)
"God can't exist because of Eric The God-Eating
Magic Penguin. Since Eric is God-Eating by definition, he has no choice but to
eat God. So, if God exists, He automatically ceases to exist as a result of
being eaten by Eric... Therefore *unless* you can prove that Eric doesn't
exist, God doesn't exist. However *if* you can prove that Eric doesn't exist,
then that same proof will also be applicable to God. There are only two
possibilities - either you can prove that Eric doesn't exist or you can't - in
both cases it logically follows that God doesn't exist".
From that it is a very short step to proving that black is
white and getting yourself run over on the next zebra crossing that you see.
And then there was a commotion outside. Usually when
they come on a Friday morning the bin men make no attempt to keep quiet. They
crash about and shout across the street to each other seemingly of the opinion
that if they are up and out of bed, then so should everyone else be up and
about. But they excelled themselves today by spending about five minutes
shouting "f...ing doughnut" up and down the street at twenty
to seven this morning. I couldn't determine whether the "f...ing
doughnut" was a fellow bin man, or some passer-by who had offended them.
I set off to work listening to the pundits on the
radio. Apparently the brewing company Brewdog is
going belly up. There were all sorts of people being interviewed on
the radio about this. Having lost thousands of pounds they were all saying how
the company seemed to be a sound investment at the time. I must admit I don't
know the first thing about the finances of the company but as a beer drinker I
never liked their stuff. To my mind they sold half-pint quantities of mediocre
beer at pint prices.
And there was a lot of talk about ex-Prince Andrew who
was arrested yesterday. After seemingly endless scandal and rumours about who
and what he might have done the dirty deed to, at, or on, it seems he's finally
been had up by the Old Bill. But the arrest was made on the suspicion that he
passed on confidential financial information when he was acting as a government
trade envoy. So far there's been no mention of whatever it was that
allegedly prompted his mother to pay Virginia Giuffre
to get her to keep quiet about her allegations that she was forced
to have several sexual encounters with him when she was aged seventeen. Will an
arrest follow about that?
His case sums up all that is wrong with the British
judicial system though, doesn't it? He might be a villain, he might not. But
he's already been tried and found guilty by the opinion of the newspapers, and
he will never get a fair trial now, will he?
I drove up to Sainsburys where there were several
caravans parked in the car park. What was that all about? I got lunch, and some
cakes for work in honour of tomorrow including some doughnuts (not f…ing
ones though).
I then went into work where I started a new book on my
Kindle app. I started reading the Harry Potter books between Christmas and the
New Year and I finished the last one yesterday. I've now started Arthur C
Clarke's "Rama" series.
Arthur C Clarke is (yet) another one who was
widely reported to be a sex criminal... even though there was absolutely no actual evidence against him other than the
rantings of newspapers
As I worked I had a phone call from 07756 004729 who
claimed that they were calling from Visa debit cards about a suspicious
transaction of nine hundred pounds on my account. I phoned the bank who knew
nothing about it... I suppose that these scammers only need to trick one person
to be in profit...
And I had an email from Forestry England... who seem
to be only too happy for me to stage a Midsummer's Eve event in Kings Wood.
That's a result.
“er indoors TM” boiled
up sausages and chips which we scoffed whilst watching this week’s episode of “Star
Trek: Starfleet Academy” which wasn’t bad. Sadly compared with what’s gone
before it wasn’t good, but it wasn’t bad.
I’m thinking about an early night… bet I don’t have
one.
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