Another relatively
good night’s sleep; I woke up shortly before 6am, watched a couple of episodes
of Family Guy over brekkie, and then took “Furry Face TM “ for his walk. We went probably an hour
earlier than usual, but he was itching to get out. He’s never done this before,
but he was woofing at me and running to the front door; obviously asking to go
for our walk.
The weather forecast
had said it would rain later so we got going. We went through the park and on
to Singleton Lake, and apart from “Furry Face TM “ trying to pick a fight with a swan the walk
was relatively uneventful. We got home after a walk of two hours; just before
the rain hit. I washed the mud from my dog and gave him his brekkie.
I had intended to
tidy up in the back garden, but once again the rain put paid to that idea. So
instead I listened to the latest news from Total Ashford dot com; a podcast of
local news and interest. The ones up till npw have been really interesting.
Today’s was also really good, but this podcast did seem to be very biased
towards local live music. I was intrigued by the indoor eighteen-hole
cyber-golf course, but that was really the only non-live-local-music item on
the pdcast.
I got cross
listening to the updates on Ashford’s Create music festival; I’ve been to it a
few times. The event would be helped if the council organised the thing so that
all the participating bands wasn’t all playing at the same time and playing *at*
each other. There are four or five stages all facing into a central arena where
the public hears all of the bands at the same time.
And the event
suffers from the security staff they employ; spotty oiks who feel they have the
god-given right to treat everyone like the sh*t on their shoes.
I also found out
that there have been all sorts of council-organised music events going on in
the church in the town centre. The chap being interviewed about all of these
activities was billed as the arts manager for the local council. All the chap
could speak about was live music. I can’t help but feel that there should be
far more to “The Arts” than subsidising local bands, but what do I know.
It’s been said
that I don’t like live music. That’s not true. I like live music when it is
done well. But for every band that can play well there are several hundred that
are just awful. And if bands want the opportunity to play, then that’s fine;
give them the opportunity. But the chap from the council was talking about the
costs of hiring some of these bands. I’m not sure that spending thousands of
pounds of rate-payers’ money on third rate noise-mongers is a sensible use of
resources. Certainly not when I have heard from family members that local
council-run nursing homes are having their budgets slashed.
Over a spot of
lunch I watched the latest episode of “The Tomorrow People”. It was
quite good really. The plot does seem to be going somewhere now. I then put
some washing in (dull), and seeing that the rain was still pouring hard
I had another look on the Internet. An email – would I submit meter reading to
the leccie company.
I did so - I was
£400+ in credit with them before I put in the new meter readings; I gave them
new readings for leccie and gas; I was then one hundred quid in debt.
They sent a
message saying they were increasing the direct debit. Oh dear… Perhaps I should
start using night rate leccie more often.
And with the rain
showing no sign of abating I spent much of the rest of the day sleeping through
episodes of “Jeeves and Wooster”. Whilst I like the show, there are
twenty three episodes all of which have exactly the same plot…
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