Unlike
the previous few nights I had something of a restless night last
night and was up at 5.30am and watching "This is England 90"
which the SkyPlus box had recorded for me. One of the characters
looked incredibly familiar... one of my pet peeves is when people are
watching the telly and are more interested in recounting what shows
certain actors have been in rather than watching the show which is
currently on the telly. I found myself doing that this morning, and
actually stopped the playback to have a look on the Internet. "Kel"
was actually "Katie" in "Trollied".
I thought she looked familiar.
I
finished watching the show, and then had a look-see on-line. The
Euro-in-out debate continues, and I'm getting a llittle sick of it.
It doesn't take much effort to realise that there are no hard and
fast answers for whether we are better in or out. And how do we judge
what constitutes "better"?
However
here's
a list of the wars that England got involved in up to the act of
union, and here's
a list of wars fought after. As you'll see we've fought with our
European neighbours an awful lot up till recently. The last couple of
generations of Kent and Sussex men are probably the first that
haven't looked across the English Channel wondering when they will be
ordered to fight a war which is realistically nothing to do with
them.
Eventually
I realised that I couldn't spend the day sitting on the sofa with my
dog, and set off to work. (Mind you as time goes by I am feeling
more and more that I can't be arsed to get up off that sofa in the
mornings)
As
I drove to work the pundits on the radio were interviewing the blind
paralympian Simon Goodall. The chap was campaigning against Reading
council's decision to
remove the traffic lights which allow pedestrians to cross the
city's streets. Apparently this has made much of the town a no-go
area for the blind and partially sighted. Surely it makes sense to
help these people cross the road safely? The pundits also interviewed
some idiot from that council who was spouting some frankly stupid
idea that traffic lights were bad. Apparently motorists don't like
being controlled and removing traffic lights makes them happier. This
twit went on to say that the more restrictions that are removed from
the roads the better. Personally I would have though that anarchy on
the roads was a bad idea, but what do I know?
I
got to work and did that which I couldn't avoid until the earliest
time at which I could reasonably get away. I was nearly involved in
aa car crash as I drove home. There is a crossroads on the A28;
traffic on the A28 has priority, traffic from Wye and Boughton Aluph
are supposed to stop. Some silly woman was heading from Wye towards
Bougton Aluph and didn't stop. She didn't even slow down. I did an
emergency stop and missed her by inches. Silly cow !!
Once
home I took "Furry Face TM" round
the park. As we walked I watched a small boy putting a flimsy branch
across a ditch. He tried to use it as a bridge and when he was half
way across the branch snapped and he fell into the ditch. He was
standing knee-deep in muddy stagnant filth when he pulled out his
mobile phone and announced "Code Red". I thought
about offering help but he seemed more keen to be declaring a Code
Red" than he was on getting out of the gunge, so I left him
to it.
Being
Tuesday the clans gathered. Tonight we watched Supergirl. I can think
of worse things to watch...
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