I had a rather restless night
which was a shame. I gave up laying awake and came downstairs. Over a bowl of
cornflakes I watched an episode of “Little Britain” as Fudge snored on
the sofa. For all that he comes up to bed every evening, he soon goes back
downstairs where he probably has a far better night.
After telly I had a quick look
at the Internet. Other than some vague acquaintances having birthdays there
wasn’t a lot happening on Facebook.
I had one email. Crosskeys
Travel (the people with whom I went to Bruges a while ago) were offering
day trips to the London museums for fifteen quid a head. That’s somewhat
cheaper than the train, and probably easier too.
It was rather
early when I left home this morning. I had a parcel to collect form the post
office, and if you park in the sports centre it is free parking before seven
o'clock. As I walked from my car there was a lovely smell. I'm going to hope it
was flowers, and not some dangerous chemicals. Despite being nearly an hour
before dawn, the birds were singing.
I got to the
post office and got my parcel (Lego motor) from one of the most surly
and miserable assistants that I have ever met there (and that is up against
some pretty stiff competition).
As I walked
back to my car I could see that the gyms in the sports centre were really busy
despite it still being well before seven o'clock. These people must love it.
I drove round
to Sainsburys to get petrol. I also got a sandwich as I'd forgotten to make
myself one. And I got a bottle of wine too. I quite like those.
As I drove to
work the pundits on the radio were discussing the press coverage of the
election in the USA when Donald Trump got voted in. They were interviewing some
American journalist or other who said that the American press had unduly
influenced the election. Apparently at the time everyone knew that Donald Trump
didn't have a hope of getting elected and was something of a joke, and so all
of the press coverage was on Hilary Clinton (because she was the only
"sensible" candidate). Press coverage generally being a negative
thing meant that the electorate heard far more bad stuff about Clinton than
Trump, and so Trump got in.
An
interesting theory.
There was
also talk about how President Trump has made some speech or other in which he's
trying to be nice to people. This is being viewed with some suspicion by most
of the media.
My plan had
been to get to work early. However broken traffic lights in Sissinghurst (lights
stuck on red in both directions) meant I was stuck there for over an hour.
By the time I'd negotiated the obligatory HGV wedged in the slalom bend at
Goudhurst I was actually late for work. The drive I did in fifty-five minutes
last night took me two and a quarter hours this morning.
Work was
rather hard work; I was glad to get out this evening. I came home and unpacked
my Lego motor. It doesn’t work. I’m going to give the seller the benefit of the
doubt and suspect my batteries are flat. I shall get some new batteries and try
them.
I then looked
at getting more Lego road base plates. It amazes me that it is cheaper to buy
these things new from the Lego shop than it is to buy them second-hand on eBay.
"er indoors TM" came up with a
rather good bit of dinner. We washed it down with that bottle of wine I bought
earlier. And we watched the latest episode of “Star Trek: Discovery”. I didn’t see that coming…
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