Last night we had a
bottle of plonk with dinner, and as there was a little bit of cheese
I had a glass of port with it. Consequently I felt a tad rough this
morning as I watched "Revolution". It has got one or
two plot holes, but as these shows go, it's not bad.
I scoffed my brekkie as
my dog snored and then set off to work.
As I drove I listened to
the radio. Nigel Farrage, leader of UKIP was ranting. He does that.
Yesterday I expressed amazement at how well his party was doing
despite having nothing to offer the electorate other than unbridled
jingoism. Today he was again
doing the same; painting a picture of a Britain utterly perfect
in every way financed by our leaving the European Union.
I was also amazed at the
story of the seventy-year old chap in prison in Pakistan having been
shot by one of the guards whilst waiting for execution
for blasphemy.
It's easy to forget that
large parts of the world are still in the dark ages.
And Parliament has been
recalled to discuss bombing somewhere
else in the Middle East.
A year ago the same
politicians were talking about taking a stand against the lot we are
now supporting. Does anyone understand what's actually going on in
the Middle East? I certainly don't.
I got to work, and did my
bit. After I'd scoffed my sandwich I went to the car park and had
what I thought was a reasonable sax practice. The passing proles
didn't think so; one spotty oik walking along a nearby footpath
bellowed "Oi mister.... you're rubbish" and then ran
off as fast as he could.
I spent the rest of the
afternoon giggling about that.
After work I set off to
McDonalds where I met up with "er indoors TM",
Jimbo and Stevey for some McTea, and then it was on to astro club.
We had a good talk tonight about the spin-offs from the space program
which have benefitted society at large. And after cake for McMillan's
Day Stevey gave a rather good talk about four things can be found in
the sky using the pair of squegasus as a point of reference. Pausing
only briefly fo confuse Uranus with Neptune Stevey gave a really good
talk.
It was only a shame that
the attendance wasn't what it once was. Where we used to have a
turn-out of over seventy; tonight's show saw only about forty people.
And despite clearing skies no one seemed to want to telescope.
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