After a frankly awful
night's sleep I was up and watching "Dad's Army"
shortly after 6am. As I watch this show I've taken to watching what
goes on in the background. It's quite surprising how whilst the main
characters are doing the show, the minor characters and those in the
background are quite blatently doing their own thing with no regard
for the camera.
I set off to work shortly
before 7am, and was delayed by ten minutes whilst I scraped the ice
off of the car. I thought we were too late into the year to still be
having an icy car; I was wrong about that. I then had a rather slow
drive to work; really thick fog today.
As I drove to work the
pundts on the radio were talking about the latest election pledges
from both of the major parties. Both are promising various flavours
of more access to GP surgeries in
evenings and weekends.
It amazes me how the
media take no responsibility for the current state of the NHS. Having
spent so long trying to find fault and assign blame and hound anyone
and everyone associated with healthcare in the UK and seemingly
deliberately fostering an atmosphere of permanent witch-hunt, the
same media is desperately tring to ignore the fact that it's become
rather difficult to staff a service in which there are nowhere near
enough workers.
As I so often do I
stopped off at Morrisons. I had a better time there this morning than
I did last week, and then went on to work. I'm now back onto daytime
shifts for a few weeks. I much prefer the night work.
At lunchtime I saxed.
Despite the cold start the weather today was glorious. As I saxed in
the car park so quite a lot of other people were sitting in their
cars all pretending not to be watching me. I suppose if some odd chap
was randomly playing a saxophone (rather badly) I'd be tempted
to stare as well.
Being on the early shift
meant for an early finish. The option of getting out of work early
was completely wasted by sitting in queuing traffic. The journey into
work this morning took forty minuutes; the trip home took nearly an
hour and a half. And I had teh air-con going too.
Once home I took "Furry
Face TM" round the park. On the way we met
an ex-colleague and we chatted for a bit. We met a girl labrador and
the nice lady with the girl labrador got quite shirty with me about
what she claimed my dog was doing to her dog. I had to explain that
despite his enthusiasm my little dog couldn't actually reach.
As we came through the
co-op field we saw something unusual; a gang of kids were climbing a
tree. It's a tree I've often looked at myself. Generally these days
kids don't climb trees. I felt glad that this bunch were doing so.
Being Tuesday the clans
gathered; today at Somerset Road. We had three rounds of ChromeCast
quiz and then after scoffing biccies we watched "The Zoom
Zoom Show". "The Flash" is quite
entertaining, but it's one of those shows in that once you've seen
one episode you've pretty much seen them all.
And having announced
she's getting married, "Daddies Little Angel TM"
wants my telephone.
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