I slept like a log last
night. Probably not surprising bearing in mind that yesterday had
involved rather a lot of walking. Unusually the alarm woke me, and
having turned it off I sat for a few moments with absolutely no idea
what day it was or whether I was up for work or for something else.
I was utterly
disorientated. That rarely happens, and I didn't like it very much.
As I scoffed my brekkie
so my little dog was snoring. He too must have found yesterday to
have been a busy one. As I so often do, I watched "Toddlers
and Tiaras" for a while. I quite like watching the thwarting
of the mouthy and pushy mothers and today's episode had a treat in
store. One particularly nasty mother (five feet tall and six feet
wide) was incensed that her little brat had been disqualified
from the pageant because she had turned up too late. The event
organisers had been calling for the child for some time, but the
obnoxious mother hadn't heard because he had been too busy bellowing
orders at all and sundry. She was particularly angry because she was
clearly a bully who was used to getting her own way, but in this case
had no grounds on which to argue since the whole thing had been
recorded by the television cameras.
I did laugh, but was
reminded of an ex-cub's thirty-stone mother who was forever ranting
at the teachers (about trivia) when I used to collect the fruits of
my loin from Victoria Road Primary School many years ago.
And so to work. Working
this weekend has its advantages in that I've had time off in the week
and will have time off next week. But it did mean that there was
stuff I would miss.
I would really have liked
to have gone to the geo-event in Tenterden today.
I really should have been
in Dartford where the astro club was putting on a display for the
good people of Dartford. (Even though I can't help but feel that
we should be doing that sort of thing in Ashford).
And I had (very)
vaguely been toying with the idea of going up to a sci-fi convention
in Hull.
It must be ten years or
more since I did the whole sci-fi convention thing. Would I want to
do another? They were becoming very commercial when I last went to
one and having seen the photos of today's one I couldn't help but
feel "been there, done that". But it might have been
fun, if only for old time's sake.
It was a very dark
morning as I drove to work. I will be interested to see the
difference an hour makes when the clocks go back tonight. As always I
had the radio on.
The pundits were talking
about the
ash dieback; apparently over the next few years the UK looks set
to lose ninety per cent of its ash trees to this disease. But not
necessarily to the actual disease. It turns out a lot of the trees
are resistant but foresters are running out and cutting down all the
ash trees just in case and are (it would seem) cutting down
the resistant trees as well as the blighted ones. The pundits
wittered on for fifteen minutes at the end of which saying it was
best to let nature take its course. As someone who is often in "The
Great Outdoors" I wonder if I will notice the difference. Mind
you I can't tell one tree from another...
There was also a lot of
talk about cyber crime following the hacking of several
million people's data from TalkTalk. The pundits wheeled on a
so-called expert who was of the opinion that SmartWatches and
contactless payment and the like are being brought out faster than
the security people can actually make them wholly secure. He didn't
actually advocate going back to a system of hard cash and bartering,
but he did have a point about the recklessness of having a financial
system which is so open to fraud and having your entire worldly worth
accessible through (relatively) untested toys.
Pausing only briefly to
visit Morrisons (where the priority was clearly on filling shelves
rather than allowing me to buy anything) I was soon at work. I
did my bit despite a very painful right elbow; several miles of a dog
pulling with all his might (to get at squirrels and pheasants)
had taken its toll. As I worked I watched the world outside the
window. It was a grey day, and as the day wore on so the rain
started. I've noticed that it often rains when I am working at the
weekends
I'm working tomorrow as
well... I wonder if it will rain again?
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