I only woke half an hour
before I needed to get up this morning; which was a result. I went
downstairs to find the pestilential pup loose in the living room.
Again we'd not secured the dog-proofing (baby gate) in the kitchen
and he'd managed to push it open. He was fast asleep on the sofa, and
seemed pleased to see me. I would like to have stayed home with him
and taken him for a mega-walk, and that had been the original plan
for the day, but unforseen circumstances put paid to that idea.
A few weeks ago I blogged
about whether I wanted a dog or not. At the time I was dead
against having one. And now that he seems to be with us more than
he's not I'm still unconvinced about having a dog.... It's not that I
dislike him. Far from it. In fact I have got too attached to him;
which is entirely why I didn't want a dog in the house in the first
place.
Brekkie, and then I
wrapped up warm and set off to work. Leaving at 6.45am makes for an
early start, and an increasingly dark and cold start too. It
won't be long before there is ice on the car in the morning. Which
reminds me that I also need to think about shutting the Koi pond down
for the winter.
As was driving
past Morrisonson the way to work I got some petrol. That's not as
cheap as once it was.
I did my bit, and got to
leave a little early: it was astro club - I like to get there early
to set up; especially on nights like tonight when I was in charge of
getting the key for the hall. Whilst setting up one of the idiot
parish councillors made a point of loudly shouting to his cronies not
to park near the village hall because "the astrology lot park
too close". After every shout he would look through the
window at me to see what reaction he would get. After fifteen minutes
of this I went out and loudly asked him why he'd brought his car
along when he only lived a couple of hundred yards up the road. He
didn't like that.
The main topic of the
evening was the recent discovery of the Higgs boson. The talk was
very interesting - a good refresher of some chemistry and physics,
and then a clarification of sub-atomic structure All illustrated by
the younger members of the club, fizzes and bangs, and choccie
biccies. Contrary to popular belief it turned out that the Higgs
boson hadn't been down the back of the sofa all along.
It was a shame that
I'd left the raffle tickets at home, but such a piddling detail
didn't stop me running a raffle...
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