I woke feeling full of energy and raring to go,
only to find it was ten past two. I *hate* it when that happens. And is usually the case when that happens, I
felt like death warmed up when it was actually time to get up.
Over brekkie I watched another episode of “Flowers” which featured an appearance
of Fat Matilda. Whether Fat Matilda will become a part of the ensemble, or just
be a one-off remains to be seen.
I then sparked up my lap-top to see what I’d missed
overnight. There had been quite a few “likes” on the pictures I’d posted on Facebook yesterday. One or two other
people had been out taking photos of their live yesterday as well. Being a
nosey person I quite like seeing what others have been up to.
I did chuckle when I looked at some of the
work-related Facebook pages I follow. Supposedly intended to be for
post-graduate lever discussions, they are more and more becoming filled with
very basic yes/no questions poorly translated from all manner of languages with
the occasional bit of religious rubbish thrown in. This morning I found adverts
for “belly fat burning juice” and rather pathetic religious-based vitriol directed at anyone using
contraception who wasn’t married on pages supposedly about the practicalities of
blood tests. Do these pages not have admins?
I had a couple of dozen emails: none worth having.
I opened the advent calendar, wondered what on Earth I could say about it
today, got dressed and hobbled up the road to my car.
With the election now becoming "so last week" it was good
to have the pundits on the radio talking about something other than the
election. There was quite a bit of talk about vaccinations; apparently the demand for flu jabs this year was so much that
suppliers can't keep
up with demand.
There was then an interview with Andy McDonald; the
Labour party's Shadow Secretary of State for Transport. He was wheeled on to
supposedly talk about how the Labour party are going to replace Jeremy Corbyn
as their leader. Beaning in mind that the Labour party have for years been
determined to make themselves unelectable I was intrigued to hear what he had
in mind. Also bearing in mind how badly Jeremy Corbyn did in the mind of the
public, I was wondering if they might have been considering having Frank "Oooh Betty" Spencer or
Zippy (from "Rainbow") in charge. However the fellow being interviewed was far more
interested in ranting about BBC bias. Last week I mentioned that the Prime
Minister is threatening the BBC with
scrapping the licence fee (because he feels they
have been anti-Conservative recently); today the Labour
party also feel the BBC have got the knives out for them as well.
I stopped off at Tesco to get some ibuprofen for my
gammy leg. As I was picking it up a passing assistant told me that I could only
have two packets. I thanked her for her advice, and she then asked if I would
like to buy either of the other two brands of ibuprofen that they were selling.
Exactly the same stuff but double and quadruple the price of the cheapo generic
stuff I was getting. Branded medicines amaze me - it's the same stuff but costs
*far* more. People
really do think they are getting something extra from a fancy packet and having
paid more.
I drove on to work. As I got out of my car I
regretted not having brought my walking stick along. I hobbled in to work
anyway. I did wonder about phoning in sick today, but I've had quite a bit of
time off work on the sick leave recently, and the doctor did say to keep the
leg moving.
I came home to find that "er indoors TM" had collected my
parcel… Result !!
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