I woke this morning
with something of a sense of "do I have to?". I don't dislike
my job; I work in a far better place than where I was ten years ago. But still
I'd rather have my days to myself, walking the dogs round the woods, pootling
in the garden, doing the laundry whilst watching drivel on the telly, and
building Lego. I expect one day I will get my wish, but... not today.
I got up, chivvied the
puppies into the garden, made brekkie, and watched more "Downton Abbey"
in which the dowager countess was being a total cow-bitch. As were the other
ladies of the house. And many of the servants. Much as I'm enjoying watching
Downton Abbey from the start again, I don't actually like many of the
characters very much.
I
set the dishwasher going, scraped the ice from the car and spent a moment or
two looking at the pretty sunrise. The photos I took weren't very good, so I
shamelessly blagged “My Boy TM” 's and Tracey's for today's
piccie. I wonder if they will notice…
As
I drove to work this morning my piss boiled as I listened to the drivel being
spewed by the pundits on the radio.
The
General Synod of the Church of England is meeting today to discuss whether or
not churches can conduct blessings on gay marriages.
They
are going to, but in making that decision they have utterly undermined any
respect they might have had from anyone.
Their
bible is perfectly clear that it feels homosexuality is wrong. So how can they
even consider this? There was some idiot woman being interviewed on the matter.
Having been a member of the Church of England for forty years she feels let
down that her church doesn't recognise her marriage to her (now) wife.
Is
this woman stupid? Seriously? Has he not listened to a thing the church says?
Does she not read her bible?
What
she's advocating is akin to me joining the local running club then demanding
they all take up sitting on the sofa watching telly and eating cake. I'm
reminded of a woman with whom I used to work who was an ardent supporter of the
Conservative party because her father once said she was a "true blue"...
even though she didn't agree with a single thing the Conservatives stood for
and would spout pure socialism to anyone who would listen. She claimed to be a
Conservative through and through, would distribute pamphlets for the local (Folkestone)
Conservative candidates, would put up posters for them... and then spend an age
arguing with Conservative councillors and the local Conservative MP (who was
once the party leader) that they should abandon pretty much all that they
stood for, and should take up all that which they opposed.
There
was also a lot of talk about how the Ukrainian president is touring Europe. He
met the Prime Minister and the King yesterday, and there is talk of the UK
giving Ukraine a squadron
of jet fighters...
Bearing
in mind those things cost over eighty
million quid each and a squadron consists of twenty-four of the things, if
the UK hand over a squadron, that's over two billion quid.... just to give the
Russians something to shoot down. Which they will. Let's not pretend the country is any kind of
financial hardships, shall we?
If
I was President Putin I'd find out which squadron was due to be handed
over, send in a missile strike, and blat
the planes before the things even took off.
Let's
not pretend to be surprised when this happens, eh?
As I worked so my phone
pinged. We've reached the first stage of this month's Munzee Clan War. I say
"we"; sadly there's not that many of us in the clan this
month. The head honchos at Munzee HQ have made this month's Clan War rather
difficult for those who opt to play the free version of the game, and that has
gone down like a lead balloon. Bearing in mind the paid version of Munzee (which
I have) sets you back the grand sum of fifty pence per week, you'd be
amazed at the bitter tirades coming from those who don't want to part with
their money.
And then my phone pinged again. Due to an unforeseen family emergency
(about which I shall be rather vague) “er indoors TM”
and I had to
zoom home from work to supervise “Stormageddon – Bringer of Destruction TM”
and “Darcie Waa Waa TM”
for the evening. We started off with a KFC dinner and sang the chips song (a
musical masterpiece), then “er indoors TM” and “Stormageddon –
Bringer of Destruction TM” played vinyl records and audio tapes
whilst “Darcie Waa Waa TM” farted impressively as me and her
watched “Bebefinn”. We all then went upstairs to the video recorder and
watched Taz-Mania on VHS. “Stormageddon – Bringer of Destruction TM”
was as good as gold (bearing in mind
some recent ”episodes”); he is fascinated by the ancient technology.
I can remember when all of that lot was state of the art…
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