I woke at four o’clock feeling rather
restless. I got up, had a shave, then went back to bed and slept for five more
hours.
Over brekkie I sparked up my lap-top. I
had a message from my professional body. The Institute of Biomedical Sciences
have recently made their Facebook page public rather than private. They’d made
some comment about how the page wouldn’t be regularly monitored, and as you can
guess the thing had immediately become a sea of petty squabbling and bickering.
I’d messaged them to say that they really needed to monitor it. They messaged
back and said they felt that they shouldn’t have to. I agreed that they
shouldn’t have to… but told them that they did need to.
It didn’t help that some of their most
senior figures were those who needed the most reining in.
There was also a squabble kicking off on
the “Geocaching in Kent” page. A puzzle had been set for people to
solve. I wouldn’t say it was a “difficult” puzzle. Geocaching puzzles
aren’t “difficult”. A third-level differential equation is difficult.
Geocaching puzzles require ridiculously convoluted and imaginative thinking.
One of these might start off with a little story about fishing…so… Jack
Hargreaves was a famous fisherman from the seventies… Glam rock was about in
the seventies… One of the prominent glam rock band were Slade… so far from
being about fishing, the puzzle is actually all about Noddy Holder.
And it doesn’t matter that hardly anyone
can solve it… once one person has solved it, the answer soon gets shared.
I still haven’t solved this puzzle.
I then told the world about today’s
album in my list. My Sparks album of choice - “No 1 in Heaven”. Rather
an odd one for sixth place?
Anyone who knows me would have thought
that Sparks would have appeared *much* earlier in the listing and more
than once. But I did say that my listing will be listed alphabetically by album
title, and only I’m only allowing myself one album of any group,
But why choose “No 1 in Heaven”?
It’s not really high on anyone’s list of favourite or well-known Sparks albums.
To be honest there’s probably half a dozen Sparks albums that I actually
prefer. But the challenge is to list albums “that greatly influenced my
taste in music”, and “No 1 in Heaven” was the first Sparks album
that I ever bought… more than forty years ago in 1979.
We took the dogs out for a walk – up
through the Memorial Gardens and back through the park. We met Bernie as we
walked, and had a socially distanced chat, and sparked up the WhatsApp to speak
to Jose in Folkestone too.
I saw that a friend had long-distance
deployed a Munzee in the park with me in mind too…
We came through the co-op field and
Fudge and Pogo were decidedly un-moral with a passing Jack Russell.
I then spent another afternoon reading
Alexei Sayle’s biography whilst drinking a variety of eastern Europeans beers
until I finally dozed off.
"er indoors TM" boiled up a rather
good dinner which we scoffed whilst watching an episode of “The Heist”
and being long-distance reiki-ed. I must admit I was rather sceptical about
reiki, but my knee has been giving me gyp for a few days. What with the GP on
lock-down and A&E having far more than me to worry about, I thought that a
dose of long-distance reiki couldn’t hurt.
I don’t think it did any harm…
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