I was up and loading the
washing machine before 5am this morning. And with time on my hands I
watched a couple of episodes of South Park. It transpired that the
pandemic of American celebrities who are getting up to all sorts of
sexually-related shenanigans was due to aliens in the White House.
One lives and learns.
I also watched a play I'd
recorded from the Sky Arts channel (oh, lar-de-dah!) which
featured David Tennant playing the part of an ungrateful little shit
finding fault with all of his social circle. It was quite
entertaining, and served as an example of how not to conduct one's
self in society.
I checked emails and on
seeing a new geocache had gone live on my way to work I set off;
leaving "er indoors TM" orders to
unload the washing machine. I found the cache easily enough; it was
only a shame that someone else had already found it ten minutes
previously.
I then carried on to
work; listening to the radio as I went. The news this morning was all
about proposed changes in legislation concerning what people can and
can't do with their pensions. The Chancellor is taking the line that
people will be sensible with their pensions and won't (as has been
mooted) piss it all up a wall as quickly as is humanly possible.
Whilst he may well be right in that few people are going to
recklessly squander the lot, he's overlooked what people will
probably do. Most people would take financial advice. That's what I
did when I took out a mortgage. I was advised (in good faith)
to get an endowment mortgage which ended up costing me thousands.
I wonder if the pension
market will be equally badly advised?
And so to work where I
did what was expected of me. At lunchtime I went for my now customary
walk; I'm quite getting to like this part of the day. Mind you I did
find working five consecutive days something of a novelty; I've not
done that for over two years.
Once home I took "Furry
Face TM" for his walk. "er indoors
TM" came too. We went down round Asda
where for the last four nights I've been trying to find a
particularly elusive geocache. Tonight I went straight to it.
I had planned to wash my
shirts this evening; the new working scheme has played havoc with my
laundry arrangements. But I couldn't be bothered. I watched telly
instead. I say "watched" - slept through was a
better description.
And Kate
Bush is going touring. I wonder if I could get tickets?
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