After nearly two weeks
holiday I had to be up early for work today. Yesterday's walk had
taken its toll on "Furry Face TM"
who had spent all of yesterday evening asleep and he still looked
shattered this morning; too shattered to even eat my toast.
Mind you when I
brandished the comb he did struggle onto my lap to be combed; he
likes that.
Yesterday I went caching;
I only found about two thirds of the caches and didn't think I'd
found enough clues to go for the bonus cache. But a quick look at the
clues I had found together with a little judicious brainwork and
perusing maps came up trumps. I had a possible location which was
only a mile or two out of my way on my drive to work.
So I set off a little
early, and shortly after 6.30am I was doing the happy dance in some
mud; another first to find.
As I carried of driving
to work I listened to the radio which was full of nasty allegations
about the
politician Harriet Harman.
Apparently many years ago
there were vague and tenuous links between various bodies with which
she was associated and paedophile rings. And consequently the media
is now digging the dirt. Whilst obviously children need protection,
this media-driven furore is now way out of control. Does the fact
that a child is in a swimming costume make any adult in the vicinity
a paedophile? Apparently so in the view of the popular press.
As a scout leader I often
took the cubs swimming. In retrospect I am sorry that I gave up my
time to help, and the Daily Mail can rest assured that because of
their predilection for spreading suspicion I will not be so public
spirited again.
And while I'm ranting
about the media I
couldn't believe what I read today. Disgraced ex-editor of the
News of the World has said in court that at the time of all the phone
hacking scandals she didn't realise that hacking into someone's
private conversations or voicemail was illegal. How can anyone be so
amoral that they need to be told precisely how privacy is to be
respected?
Mind you all wasn't doom
and gloom in the news. Our old friend science has found out (through
the wonders of electroencephalography and the expenditure of several
thousand quid) that dogs
understand what humans do and say.
It's amazing that in this
new world order of austerity science has money to throw away; has he
never held up a lead to a dog, said the word "walkies" and
seen the reaction?
I did my bit at a very
busy day at work, and came home via the weekly gathering. Today we
were at Arden Drive for more "Merlin". It's
watchable, but the story has a lot of holes. Why is Arthur the only
one who takes his dogsbody in to battle every time he has a battle. I
can think of no other reason that that the star of the show has to be
in the thick of the action. Which isn't really a reason which lends
credulity to the show. Mind you the advent of a rather fit sword
wielding chesty boiler (to coin a phrase) has inproved the
show no end.
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