A rather good night's
sleep for a change. I was going for an early half asleep tiddle, but
a phone call woke me up. Expecting disasterous news (why else
would anyone be calling so early) it was rather frustrating to
find it was nothing that couldn't have waited. I wasn't going to get
to sleep after that.
Why do some people assume
that if they are awake then everyone else should also be up and
about? I shall start phoning selected people at 4am to let them find
out how anti-social early morning phone cells can be.
"My Boy TM"
arrived and we set about fixing the shed roof. The winter storms had
all but trashed the felting, and so we set about replacing the felt.
We decided that I should be the one actually on the roof as I am
(probably) the lightest. But as our maxim we were chanting
"don't fall through the roof, Dad". We got the job
done in less than an hour; on my own I would have taken all morning.
I then took "Furry
Face TM" for a walk. We got as far as
Bowen's Field. We would have gone further but the silly pup smothered
himself in fox crap so we came home for bath time. With dog bathed I
sorted out the astro club accounts and sent "er indoors TM"
off to town to pay the cash into the bank for me. I then looked at
my own bank accounts. I got a little bit cross.
In December the mobile
phone people said they would reduce my monthly payments. I checked
and saw that for the third consecutive month the payment has gone up.
I phoned them to ask what was going on. After a lot of to-ing and
fro-ing I got through to someone in Mumbai who told me not to argue
with their computer as it is never wrong. I have three months left on
the contract, then I shall tell them where to stick their mobile
phone.
And then it was time for
my saxophone lesson. It went rather well, I thought. More tips on how
to improve my technique, and faced with three tunes I'd not seen
before (on sheet music) I didn't do too badly at all. Having
my homework for the week. I just needed to see if I could get hold of
a cheap music stand...
Argos had one according
to their web site. Available at the local branch I could reserve it
on line. I did. But when we went to collect it, young Spotty behind
the till told me they didn't actually have them in stock. Despite
what their web site said, it wouldn't actually arrive until Friday.
So I went to the Folkestone Argos and bought one from there.
Ironically as we were driving down the motorway to Folkestone I got
an email from Argos to tell me my order had arrived in the Ashford
branch.
Whilst in Folkestone we
visited "Daddies Little Angel TM"
and her associates. I spent an hour asleep on the sofa, I fussed the
dogs, and played Crash Barbecue (!) on the Nintendo DS. And
from there we made our way to Cheriton for a birthday bash...
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