Another rather restless night. Despite the
puppy not disturbing me, I didn’t really sleep well, and gave up trying to
sleep just before 5am. I watched an episode of “You Rang M’Lord” then sparked up my lap-top. Facebook told me that
today is World Book Day. I googled “World Book Day” and rather than getting
any literary search results I got a whole load of costume ideas for kids to
dress up. What is that all about?
A little research has shown me that World Book
Day isn’t an educational thing, it is a day of dressing up for the school kids.
Mumsnet have created a web page which lists characters
in children’s books that wear everyday clothes so mums won’t have to spend out
on expensive costumes.
Why dress up at all? What’s wrong with reading
a book? Take a look at that mumsnet web page – how many kids will be at school
today wearing football kit or pyjamas claiming to be dressed as Little Red
Riding Hood’s grandmother or Willy the Wizard, but having never read the books?
(And having no intention of reading the
book either?)
To quote one chap’s posting on Facebook
“F… world book day , when it costs you 60
quid for costumes for school , another day that's costs, utter b…s”
I had a couple of emails – suggestions
that I apply for jobs in Essex. As the crow flies, Southend isn’t *that* far away. Linkedin was trying to
get me to support ObamaCare (why?)
And Amazon were again trying to sell me stuff which was of no interest to me.
As I drove to work the pundits on the
radio were talking about the latest
Brexit bombshell. The government’s plans have been scuppered by the House
of Lords; the government doesn’t plan to guarantee the future of EU residents
who have lived in the UK for years. This sucks; good friends of mine who have
lived in the UK for over twenty years look to be ordered back overseas.
I got to work, had a rather busy day,
and with work done I then spent forty five minutes queueing to get out of the
hospital car park; the traffic was that busy.
Once I gone home my dad rang. Him and
mum are at Guy’s hospital; she was due to have half a lung removed this
morning. The surgery went well; the criteria for judging this was that mum didn’t
have a stroke or a heart attack during the process…
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