I
slept right through until the alarm went off this morning. That rarely happens.
I got up, made brekkie and watched another episode of “Big
School” before sparking up my lap-top.
At
the weekend I saw the Lego maxifigure family at a bargain price on eBay. It
arrived yesterday… I say “arrived” – it wasn’t
so much “delivered” as left laying in the front garden.
Last
night I posted a picture of it on one of the Lego Facebook pages I follow. It
had received a few comments. All complimentary, but one or two more interested
in how I could sell the set at a profit rather than enjoying it for what it is.
I suppose I did get a bargain, but I’m not overly keen on selling it just yet.
I
also saw a friend was having her birthday today. I sent a little message and
again had more than a pang of jealousy. This friend bought her first house in
the mid 1980s like I did. And paid about the same price as I did. However her
house was a stone’s throw (with a catapult) from
London’s docklands area. Within a year the Docklands development took off and
she sold her house for over ten times what she’d paid for it.
She
bought something palatial in the country, gave up blood testing and re-trained
as a primary school teacher. She soon become head teacher and retired to the
most beautiful cottage a couple of years ago.
Meanwhile
I’m still the wage slave in a terraced suburban house.
Don’t
get me wrong – I’m not unhappy with my lot. I just want more. And I’ve probably
left it rather late in life to get it.
As
I walked out to my car I nearly fell over (twice) on the ice
on the pavement. It was cold, icy and foggy. But on the plus side it was that
cold that the ice just scraped straight off the windscreen.
As
I drove to work the pundits on the radio were talking about Bob Willis. He was
something big in cricket in the 1970s. This made me think - there was a *lot* of air time
dedicated to him, and I'd never heard of the chap. How much else is there of
national importance of which I am totally oblivious.
There
was then an interview with the Home Secretary Sajid Javid in which he utterly
ignored every question put to him. Instead he just parroted that the
Conservatives are better than Labour because Labour are crap. Hardly sound
impartial reasoning there?
It
took an age to get to work today. I would have made far better time had someone
living on a rather narrow road not had a major delivery from B&Q. You'd
think sending a delivery on a lorry which was wider than the road (at
rush hour) would be something they'd try to avoid, wouldn't you?
I
got to work and downloaded an new e-book. I seem to get through a lot of these.
Much as I like e-books as they take up no space at all, as a reader I have no
idea just how much I'm getting for my money. Take this current e-book - it's
the third in a series of three. Each costing over three quid. Together they
probably don't make up what you'd get in a "regular"
paperback book.
With
"er indoors TM"
out this evening I was left “Home Alone” so I watched a film on Netflix.
I say “watched a film”; I turned “Dirty Grandpa” off
half-way through. It was utter tripe.
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