I woke up feeling full of energy and raring to go only to
find it was two o’clock. I then lay awake for much of the rest of the night.
As I scoffed a bowl of granola I watched an episode of “Trailer
Park Boys: The Animated Series” then peered into the Internet to see what
I’d missed overnight. I hadn’t missed much really. In fact I’d missed nothing
at all, so I got myself ready for work and set off.
As I drove out to Pembury the head
honcho of the British Union of Pubs (or whatever it is called) was being
interviewed on the radio. He had the arse because the formal re-opening of pubs
in the UK has been delayed (yet again) whilst theme parks and zoos are opening next week.
The argument was made that it is easier
to infection-control people swarming about outside a pub than it is to
infection-control people swarming around a theme park or a zoo. It strikes me
there's space to spread people out in a zoo, but the queues and rides at a
theme park do squeeze the people in, and has anyone ever tried to
infection-control anyone or anything in a beer garden?
It was alleged that the Prime Minister's
father had something to do with it all. Did he? I don't know.
There was also talk of how the statue of
Robert Milligan has been removed from the London Docks that he had built
because of his connection to the slave trade.
There's now talk of removing statues of Oliver Cromwell and Sir Francis Drake
because their actions don't sit well with current standards.
I'm not defending the slave trade, but
it happened. I'm not sure that censoring history like this is a good idea.
There are already a lot of people
who don't realise that the Moon landings actually happened. How long will
it be before holocaust-denial will be expected rather than vilified?
The pundits on the radio then
interviewed an ex-boss of OFSTED who was talking about how rather than sitting
exams, children's marks
will be awarded (guessed at) by their teacher based on how well
they've done over the last year or so.
It was admitted that this is a less than
perfect system. This chap was of the opinion that it would be guesswork at
best.
If my children were at school now I
would be worried. A teacher friend of mine once told me that in a class of
thirty, he knows the brightest two children and the thickest two children, and
all the rest are just a sea of indistinguishable faces.
Some fatuous windbag was then wheeled on
who rattled about how children from black and minority ethnic backgrounds will
fare badly in this system because everyone knows that society is biased against
anyone who is not from a white Caucasian background, and why should teachers be
any different?
Just recently there have been those who
are taking every opportunity to stir up racial divisions. I wish they wouldn't.
I got to work; I did my bit. At tea
break my phone beeped with a message. I'd made a silly mistake on the admin for
the geo-series I was finalizing on Monday so I put that right, and it wasn't
long after that when I saw that all fifty geocaches in that series had gone
live.
I was pleased about that; I can now
start thinking about my next geo-project.
After lunch I skived off for a few
minutes to have some blood taken. I'm having the COVID-19 antibody test done (purely
because I can). I wonder what the result will be.
And in closing today, it has been
suggested that when at work in my laboratory coat I bear a passing resemblance
to Dr Bunsen Honeydew… can’t see it myself…
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