Another night spent
semi-consciously shivering having escaped from the duvet. I finally
woke enough to cover myself about half an hour before I needed to get
up.
Once abluted I was
surprised to see my little dog anxious to get outside. He flew round
the garden as if chasing something then havinig worn himself out he
helped me with my toast before taking himself back to bed. As I
scoffed those bits of toast he allowed me I watched this week's
episode of "detectorists"; a gentle comedy that I
quite like.
I then checked out the
Internet. As I started to smurf I got an "Update Java"
prompt. Whilst I'm all for updating Java I do think it is rather
cheeky that you need to be very careful to make sure the thing
doesn't change all your internet settings for you. Whilst the nice
people at Java might think settinmg Yahoo to be my home page is a
good idea, I'd rather make the choice for myself.
As I drove to work the
pundits on the radio were expressing surprise that it's been
confirmed that the terrorists who had committed the atrocities in
Paris last week had got into Europe hidden amongst the thousands of
recent refugees; and once in Europe had then had free rein to go
wherever they fancied.
Apparently there is a
high-level meeting of European leaders today to review the open
borders policy. Despite the fact that this has demonstrably helped
the terrorists, European leaders seem determined to keep the policy.
I would have thought that any such open borders policy was clearly
going to work in the favour of those who want to avoid detection (for
whatever reason). But apparently not having such a policy goes
against the "fundamental
right of freedom of movement".
Perhaps those who make
such policies might realise that a "fundamental right of
freedom of movement" is actually a rather silly thing to
have. But what do I know...
I stopped off at
Morrisons (who now have their Christmas tree up), did a little
shopping then phoned Lacey to wish her a happy birthday. I got to
work for the early shift and did my bit. One of the trainees was
doing her homework today (or do she said) I tried to take a
moral stance; there is a fine line between "biology diagrams"
and "nudey pictures".
I'd arranged an early
finish for today so's I could get to the astro club's presentation to
the punters at Downe House; English Heritage was charging then
fifteen quid each for us to witter on about the stars and space and
stuff. We actually had cllear skies to do the telescope thing, but it
was *so* cold. After an hour of shivvering whilst people
queued to look at the moon we went inside and we then gave them a few
shows and talks and things. They seemed to lap it up; punters usually
do.
Mind you in retrospect
I'm not sure why I went along. I don't think I actually contributed
anything to the event, I shivered in the cold, slept through the
talks and (in all honesty) I can't help but wonder if would
have been better spending the evening with my granddaughter. ..
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