I was up with the lark (as usual) this morning. Before settling to breakfast I wasted ten
minutes trying to find my dog’s comb. "Furry Face TM"
likes being combed, but the puppy likes chewing his comb. She’d obviously
stolen it to chew on it, and I couldn’t find it anywhere.
I then watched a rather good episode of “Battlestar Galactica” which was marred
only by the supposedly gory scenes. Fake blood winds me up for the simple
reason that it looks nothing like blood. Blood isn’t bright red, nor is it
transparent.
I spent a few minutes perusing a dull internet,
then went upstairs to get dressed. As I sat on the end of my bed to deal with
socks felt something uncomfortable. The puppy had buried the comb under the
duvet at the bottom of my bed.
I set off to work through rather thick fog. I
went to the petrol station on the ring road as they do the cheapest petrol for
miles around. They were closed, so I went to the Ashford Sainsbury’s. Two pence
per litre dearer than the place on the ring road but still two pence per litre
cheaper than Maidstone.
As I drove to work I listened to the radio. There
was an interesting article about the oil rigs
in the North Sea. In much the same way that Britain’s nuclear power
stations were built without a thought for their disposal, the oil rigs in the North
Sea were similarly put in place with no thought for getting rid of them. Some
may be dismantled but it seems there is a trend (world-wide) to use them as “reef-builders”
which is a thinly veiled way of saying just leave them where they are when they
are done with. It amazes me that (when
they built them) no one gave a thought for what would eventually happen to
these rigs.
There was also talk about how
research has shown that in medieval times the recently dead had their
bodies seriously mutilated to stop them rising from the dead.
I wonder who pays for this research.
I got to work and did my thing, then took over
an hour longer than usual to get home. Road works not a couple of miles from
work held me up for that hour.
I came home to rather worrying news. Poor little
Sid (my grand-dog) had been attacked.
"Daddy’s Little Angel TM" had been walking him
round the fields at Newtown when an Akita savagely attacked him. Fortunately
she had Buster (another grand-dog)
with her and Buster was able to fight off the Akita (Buster loosing a tooth in the battle).
Needless to say the local police weren’t
interested at first, but were eventually shamed into getting involved. They are
apparently going to take statements tomorrow afternoon.
Some would say that is a day too late, but I’m
rather amazed they are coming out at all. Personally I was of the opinion that
they would wait until a child was mauled by this obviously out-of-control
animal, and then pretend to have known nothing about it.
I wonder what they will actually do…
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