I slept well until "er indoors TM"
started fighting with the puppy in the small hours.
Over brekkie I watched this week’s
episode of “Dark Matter”. I quite
like the show; if only I could remember the plot’s twists and turns.
As I was up early I thought about
putting on more telly but decided against it. Instead I started into social
media. Last night I put on the first episode of the re-booted “Crystal Maze”. I loved the show when it
first came out starring Richard O’Brien. For me it got better with Ed
Tudor-Pole. I liked last year’s charity edition with Stephen Merchant. But last
night’s episode…
Oh dear.
I’m afraid the new presenter has no
screen presence for me. Richard Ayoade failed to take command of the show, and
he was completely overshadowed by one of the contestants (Louie
Spence)
who upstaged him at every turn. I could have put up with Richard Ayoade’s
dismal performance, but it was Louie Spence’s over-the-top camp act that made
me turn off half way through.
It would seem that despite the rave
reviews of the TV critics, the people on my Facebook list didn’t think highly
of the show either.
I set off to work; as I drove the
pundits in the radio were interviewing some rather disgruntled fishermen
from Aberdeen.
They’d all voted in favour of Brexit so’s that the foreign fishermen would no
longer have access to what they saw as their fishing grounds. They did so with
heavy hearts as they could see all sorts of advantages to remaining in the EU,
but for them exclusive fishing rights was a deal-breaker.
The pundits then wheeled on some foreign
fishermen who were adamant that they were going to carry on fishing in
Aberdeen’s waters anyway. As they said, who is going to stop them?
They then cut back to the Aberdeen
fishermen who were asking what was the point of going through with Brexit if
they weren’t going to get what had been promised.
A very good question; yet more people
having been misled.
I got to work, did my bit, and came home
through the rain. We had planned on a little geo-walk this afternoon but the
weather was against it. After the walk was a geo-meet in a non-dog-friendly pub
and sitting outside with the dogs whilst everyone sheltered indoors wasn’t a
good idea. So we took the dogs round the park (in the drizzle) to tire them.
Once home we settled the dogs, and drove
through black skies to the meet (pausing
only briefly for a Wherigo on the way).
The weather was odd; black skies and
rain in Maidstone and Ashford; dry at Paddock Wood. But it was as well we’d not
walked with the dogs and gone straight to the pub; they stopped serving food in
the pub garden at 5pm. We met up with all sorts of friends in the pub, and then
had a rather good dinner with Karl and Tracey and Wayne and Lynne. Sitting at
table 73, no one else could remember the Sandwich Quiz.
I slept all the way home…
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