I slept well; it is amazing how when the
puppy sleeps well so does everyone else. Over brekkie I watched “BattleStar Galactica” whilst my dog
snored. I then had a little look at the Internet (to see if it was still there).
I had to chuckle at a thread on a
Facebook group I follow. There is a group on there dedicated to the band “Sparks”. One chap yesterday made a
posting that he didn’t like the merchandise that was sold by the official
Sparks site; he didn’t like the designs and thought it was too expensive so
he’d made a whole load of stuff he was selling cheaper. Needless to say, he got
a veritable shitstorm of abuse for his blatant bootlegging but at the end of it
all this chap honestly thought he was the innocent party. The poor simpleton
couldn’t understand what he was doing wrong.
With no emails for note I set off to
work… once I remembered where I’d parked my car last night.
As I drove to work the pundits on the
radio were talking about the escalating costs of decommissioning Britain’s now-defunct nuclear
power stations.
The government has paid out a hundred million pounds in an out-of-court
settlement to firms who were supposed to have been awarded contracts to sort
out the disused power stations. It transpires that Britain’s nuclear power
stations were built without a thought for how they might be disassembled after
they’d come to the end of their lives and the costs of getting rid of them will
run to tens of billions of pounds.
When I was a lad we were told that
nuclear power was cheap power.
I stopped off at Aldi on the way to
work. They had rather good shirts in my size which were going cheap. I got one,
and also some stuff for unblocking the drains then went in to work.
There was a shock in store for us. One
of my colleagues hadn’t turned up for a few days. He’d gone home sick at the
end of last week and there was a vague feeling he was still off sick. It turned
out he’d gone home and dropped dead. He was only twenty-three.
Makes you think, doesn’t it?
I came home and we walked the dogs round
the block then after a rather good bit of scoff went to the Tuesday gathering;
this time down the end of Hythe Road. Together we watched a rather good episode
of “Blake’s Seven” in which the
spaceship was flown using the very same controls which had featured on Moonbase
in “UFO”.
I’ve updated the software on my mobile
phone. I hate it. Is there a rollback option?
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