Another
night during which neither our dogs nor new-next-door's dogs made a sound all
night long; I like this.
Over
brekkie I watched more of "Orange is
the new black"; I'm getting to like the show, but I don't see why it
is described as a comedy - it isn't funny. There is a minor drawback in that
each episode is an hour long so I don't have time to watch a whole episode
before work. Half an hour was good though.
I
set off for work; as I drove up the motorway through the torrential rain there
was a lone motorbike driving up the miles of the slow lane which have been
cordoned off for no reason. On the one hand he wasn't supposed to be on that
bit. On the other hand there seems to be no reason why miles of the motorway
are cordoned off, and being on a motorbike in the rain he was probably safer on
the closed section.
The
rain was rather bad this morning with the section by junction six actually
under water. I was amazed at how a relatively raised part of the road could be
under water.
As
I drove the pundits in the radio were doing their thing. They were interviewing
the education secretary who has made the apparently incredibly brave
announcement that the government intends to help parents so that by the time
their children go to school they
are able to speak. Amazingly
twenty-five per cent of five year-olds going to school can't communicate. There
were those who were complaining about the government intervening in the lives
of private individuals; I can't help but feel that if someone has let a child
get to five years old without teaching it to speak, then some intervention is
necessary.
There
was also consternation expressed from the national executive of the Labour
party who are blaming
Donald Trump for all their troubles. I get *so* cross with the Labour party. It is *such* a good idea in theory, but in practice it is just a shambles.
It could be so much better.
I
got to work just as the rain was stopping. I got out of my car and stepped into
a puddle. i found myself thinking that in years gone by the last week of July
was cub camp. I wonder if they are camping at Bilsington again this year?
I
had a rather busy day at work today and was glad when home time came. An early
start meant for an early finish, and once home I took the dogs round the park.
Fudge tried to fight a motorbike on the way to the park, and once at the park
both dogs had a swim in the river.
I
did chuckle as we walked past the playpark when I overheard one young boy
talking to his mother: “Look at than man
with the dog and the baby bear” he said.
Presumably
Treacle is the baby bear?
With
our walk done I spent a little while messing with a new app. I’ve used the NeonGeo
app for geocaching for some time, but I’m told that there was some issue with
it along the lines of whoever made the thing never got permission to cobble it
to Google maps (or something). Whilst
mine is working OK, it seems that other people’s versions are stopping working
so I thought I’d be pre-emptive and see if I could get something which would
make a good replacement.
For
me the main priority is the ability to use ordnance survey maps in the app.
There are so many other maps available, and none come close to ordnance survey.
A fellow hunter of Tupperware told me about an app called GCdroid. I’ve
installed it and got the maps working. I shall give the thing a field test
tomorrow before work and see how it goes.
Being
Tuesday the clans gathered. We watched an old Star Trek Deep Space Nine episode,
and put the world to rights. We should do that more often.
As
we watched telly "Daddy’s
Little Angel TM" was sending me updates on
my most recent grandchild. "Stormageddon -
Bringer of Destruction TM" has some new pets. He has three
slugs. “Gertie”, “Laura” and “Snorloc” live in a sandwich box and have been fed cucumber and
foliage.
One
can only hope that slugs eat cucumber and foliage or "Stormageddon -
Bringer of Destruction TM" is not going to be happy.
Presumably “Gertie”, “Laura” and “Snorloc” won’t be too chuffed either…
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