I expect most of my loyal
readers would be surprised to hear that I was sleeping well last
night. I slept very well until 4am when my phone went mental. Text
after text came in. All from my mobile phone supplier telling me
about all sorts of drivel which could easily have kept until the
morning.
I didn't get back to
sleep after that. Eventually I emerged from my pit and watched
episodes of "Family Guy" until it was time to go to
work.
As I drove there was
extensive coverage of the preparation ofr the funeral of Nelson
Mandela. As important as the chap was to recent history, there is no
denying that the description of a stadium filling up with mourners
does not make for good radio.
In between desciptions of
people going to a funeral there were occassional other snippets of
news. Apparently there is consternation about the state of physical
education in our schools.
When I was a lad P.E.
lessons were a torment. It was a chance for the most physically adept
to kids in the class to lord it over everyone else. Apparently
little has changed in forty years.
Mind you in retrospect my
school had a stroke of genius. Children were divided into five sets
according to ability. Set one had the children who were really good
at sports; set five had those less talented. After a while the
teachers realised there were two distinct types of child in set five.
There were those who wanted to do sports but were rubbish at it, and
there were those of us who loathed and despised sport. A spin-off set
(set six) was created for those who were not at all sporty.
And whilst everyone else played football, the Latin teacher would
take us in set six for a walk through the countryside.
Forty years later Mr
Hatchard's influence still has me hiking on a regular basis.
I stopped off at "Pets
at Home" on the way to work. "Furry Face TM"
seems to like Baker's dog food. I thought I'd get a job lot from the
pet shop. As I have said before, it pays to shop about. The Cheapo
Bargains shop in Ashford does the dog food for only two thirds of the
price charged by "Pets at Home".
And with a few minutes
before I was due at work I phoned my mobile phone supplier to
complain about the spate of texts that had woken me up. They were
rather dismissive of me. Apparently they have a known problem with
their system. I asked if they would offer my compensation for the
inconvenience I'd suffered. They said if they offered my anything
they would have to offer compensation to everyone else they wake up
every morning (!)
Once at work I did my
bit, and with my bit done I came home. I came home the long way.
Just before leaving I checked my emails and was told that one of my
geocaches had gone missing. The one in question contains a Chinese
puzzle box. Replacing that wouldn't be cheap. I drove out to the
middle of nowhere to check on the thing only to find it was fine...
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