Last night’s night shift was
rather busy; I was very glad when the relief arrived.
As I drove home my piss boiled
as I listened to the radio. Apparently Cambridge university is launching a
two-year project to see if the university profited from
the slave trade. Does it take a rocket scientist to realise that
they did profit from the slave trade? At the time everyone did. That’s why it
was a slave “trade” and not a “charity”. The pundits interviewed
some professor or other who was banging on about how he was of white British
descent and so his history was unaffected by the slave trade, but many of the
university’s students histories have been blighted by it.
What bollox.
I’m not endorsing the slave
trade in any way, but it happened. More than two hundred years ago. Can anyone
alive today realistically claim to have been hurt, injured or offended by what
happened over (at minimum) a century and a half before they were born?
Certainly do the research. It would be interesting to see the outcome; if only
to illustrate another facet of Georgian times. But don’t do it out of some
perverted sense of seeking justice. You’re far too late for that.
The pundits on the radio also
wheeled on the Foreign secretary who was interviewed about all sorts of things.
Again my piss boiled; I cant say I like the chap. But he pointed out an
interesting fact. The Japanese emperor is planning to
abdicate today. “Abdicate” – it sounds terrible, doesn’t
it? The poor chap is eighty-five years old. He wants to retire. His successor
will be the forty-sixth international world leader who was educated in the UK.
I came home; "er indoors
TM"
said goodbye, and ten minutes later the plumber arrived. Regular readers of
this drivel may recall that two weeks ago I broke the shower. I say “I broke the shower”; the thing really
did fall off in my hand. We’ve been messing about with baths for the last two
weeks (I say “we”; to be honest I have no
idea what "er indoors TM"
has been doing) and getting in and out of the bath is hard work.
I must admit I’ve been worried sick about the plumber
calling. I wouldn’t know where to start to repair the shower attachment. I had
visions of the entire bath needing stripping out. I deliberately emptied the
washing basket yesterday as I was half-expecting the water supply being
permanently knacked after his visit.
It turned out I was rather over-reacting. The nice man had
it all sorted in less than an hour. I paid him using the bank’s app on my
phone, and we chatted for a while about how useful that app is. He told me how
that when people paid him with a cheque it used to cost him time to take the
cheque into the bank, but now you can pay cheques into your account by using
the app to take a photo of the cheque. Can you believe it? We take these mobile
phones for granted – you can do so much with them.
I took the dogs for a little walk. As we went to the co-op
field we met OrangeHead who commented on how late we were leaving home. I found
myself telling her all about the plumber… is this how she dragoons people into
her posse?
And with walk walked I tried out the new shower. A shower,
rather than wallowing and struggling to get out of a bath. Heaven.
And then I went to bed for a while. I slept like a log.
I got up at three o’clock, had some toast, and then did the
ironing. As I ironed I watched the last episode of “Fleabag”. She had the arse because she did pork the priest after
all, but the priest preferred God over her. Priests do that. I also watched the
first three episodes of the new season of “Lee
and Dean”; I’d forgotten just how much I’d liked the first season of that.
And then I fell asleep until "er indoors TM"
came home.
I wonder what’s for dinner…
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