A rather vivid nightmare
woke me shortly after 3am. I didn't really get back to sleep after
that, and was up watching "Toddlers and Tiaras"
rather earlier than I would have liked. In this mornning's episode
the children were all sporting false teeth and wigs, and the winner
announced she was going to spend the prize money on turtles.
"Furry Face TM"
got up to scrounge toast and have a little combing but he soon took
himself back to bed.
As the toddlers did their
things on the telly I had a look-see on the Internet. A chap with
whom I once worked was jetting off across the world on business. For
a minute or two I was just a little jealous; I spent two years trying
to get into sales. I'd be far better at selling stuff than this
bloke.
But then I wondered if I
would actually like that sort of a life style. For all that jetting
aabout on business might sound glamourous I have (in a previous
life) been very lonely in hotel rooms in Milan and Paris and
Brussels whilst away on business. My job quite suits me at the
moment.
And talking of my job,
I'd had a week off. It was time to go back to work. As I got the car
going a warning light came up. A service is due. As I mentioned
yesterday what with "er indoors TM"
having had five hundred quid for new brakes and my having splashed
out over two hundred quid on new specs I was rather looking to make
some economies this month. Oh well...
As I drove to work the
pundits were discussing the antics of the new
leader of the Labour party Jeremy Corbyn. For all that the media
paint him as a twit there is no denying he won the leadership
election by a landslide. Mind you if he is half the idiot the media
would have us beleive, I can't help but wonder if tens of thousands
of Tory voters really did join the Labour party to nobble the
leadership election and leave them effectively unelectable.
Someone else who came
over equally idiotic was the woman wittering platitudes on the
radio's "Thought for the Day". She started off
commenting about how NASA has found water on Mars (they
actually have). From here it was only a short leap to the
fictional TV series "Life on Mars" featuring John
Simm. And from there she said that because
Lewis Carroll claimed it was patently obvious that God exists
there could be no denying that God does exist (thank you, and
goodnight).
I love listening
carefully to sermons and religious waffle. The speakers are so used
to no one actually paying any attention that they never feel any need
to present any attempt at a reasoned argument and trot out any
half-baked nonsense that takes their fancy.
I got to work where we
had something of a cake-themed day. And then I came home. Parking was
somewhat tight; I finally found somewhere to park three streets away.
"Furry Face TM"
was pleased to see me; we went for our walk which passed off
uneventfully. And then it was time for the semi-final of
"Bake-Off"...
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