Last night as I worked I
tuned in to Radio Four Extra. I've been doing that on the night
shifts lately. Maggie
Aderin-Pocock was on Desert Island Discs. I found myself
wondering if I owed this lady an apology. I've often said that she is
a very good reason for not watching "The Sky at Night"
as she has always put me off the show. She has (to me) always
come over as something of an excitable twit. But listening to her on
the radio last night was an eye-opener. She seemed to be a very
interesting person, and was one of a very small minority of people
who when on Desert Island Discs didn't pretend to like all sorts of
pretentious classic and operatic crap.
And her book choice was
"Star
Maker" by Olaf Stapledon. Whilst not a favourite of
mine, it s certainly one to which I keep returning. I shall try
watching "The Sky at Night" again and give her
another chance.
Mind you I was rather
disappointed by much of the rest of the output of Radio Four Extra.
Much of it was a repeat of what they had broadcast on the previous
night, and last night's 10pm show was re-run at 5.30am. You would
think they could space the repeats out a little more than that.
From work I took my car
to the garage and left it there for its MOT. It was a short walk
from there to find "Daddies Little Angel TM"
and "Stormageddon - Bringer of Destruction TM".
We walked to home to collect "Furry Face TM"
and then went for a little stroll. Or, to be more precise, we went
for what we call a little stroll. Most people would call iit
something of a route march.
"Daddies Little
Angel TM" wanted to go to Tesco; Asda have
stopped selling burritos. "Daddies Little Angel TM"
is up in arms about this and can get no sensible explanation as to
why Asda have stopped selling burritos. I have a theory it is in some
way connected with the UFO she thinks she's seen.
From Tesco we went to the
playpark in Park Farm. There was some sign about no dogs, but there
was no one else about...
We made our ways home,
and over lunch I watched this week's episode of "Mrs Biggs"
and then fell asleep in front of the telly. After a couple of hours
I had a phone call to say the car was ready. A few light bulbs needed
replacing but that was all. So I put the lead on my dog and we went
to fetch the car.
Immediately on fetching
it the old parking brake fault had returned. I *told* them not
to fiddle with it!
There was an evening
geo-meet planned for the evening in honour of the leap day. We spent
a rather good evening in the pub talking tupperware with friends old
and new.
Perhaps the fourth pint
was a mistake...
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