I was woken by the noise of the rain
against the window a few minutes before the alarm was due to go off.
Over brekkie I watched the last night's
episode of "Detectorists";
it was rather good. It had a guest appearance from Linda Lusardi. Famous for
"flopping them out" in the
1970s I can remember when she retired from all that sort of thing. It was good
to see she's s still alive. A shame she didn't "flop anything out", but you can't have everything.
However the program was rather marred by
one minor point. At the end of the show out heroes were camping. In the late
evening they were stargazing and were looking at the constellation Orion. If
you can see that constellation in the late evening in the UK it is far too late
in the year (and cold) to be camping.
I drove to work through the rain. I
needed petrol so I went along a slightly different route. There has been major
road works on the road in to the town centre; they've built a road island in *exactly* the wrong place. It confused
me, and it confused several other people too.
I got to the petrol station. For all
that the one on the ring road is the cheapest for miles, petrol has still gone
up by five pence per litre over the last week. The grannie on the till was
without admirers (for once), and
because I wasn't openly trying to sniff round her, she made a point of making
me wait until she'd finished whatever it was she was doing before she took my
money.
As I drove to work the pundits on the
radio were talking about how the advertising of broadband internet speeds has got
to be changed. The broadband providers are only going to be allowed to
advertise something as "up to"
a given speed if the public have a reasonable chance of actually getting that
speed. At least half of the punters have got to be able to get the "up to" speed; as opposed to ten per
cent as things currently stand.
Currently I’m running at about twenty
per cent of what I was led to believe I might get.
There was also a lot of talk about
yesterday's budget. The general consensus of those who know about budgets was
that the Chancellor of the Exchequer did the best he could bearing in mind the
economy is going down the toilet. From the way the various experts were talking
it would seem that pretty much everyone is now agreed that financially Brexit
was an incredibly bad decision, and the Chancellor has made the best of a bad
job because of it.
The BBC have created an on-line budget calculator. According to the BBC
after yesterday’s budget I shall be eight pounds forty-two pence better off
every month.
Work was hard work, but being on an early start made for an
early finish. Once home I walked the dogs round the road, then the three of us
fell asleep in front of the telly whilst it played Star Trek cartoons at us.
"er indoors TM" boiled up a very
good bit of dinner, and as we scoffed it we wondered what Netflix might have to
offer. “The Minions Movie” was excellent.
Why hadn’t we watched it before?
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