“er indoors TM” went to the loo in the
small hours. In itself that wouldn't have been an issue. I would have slept
through that. But she was followed by a procession of dogs. And then the
smallest one (who is too small to get off of the bed on her own) whinged
because she thought she was missing out by not going with the others. Once
she'd eventually settled, the toilet procession came back to bed quietly (!)
There was then quite a bit of grumbling and growling as we all jostled for
position. I say "we all jostled for position"; I just
desperately tried to cling on to that small area of bed which I already had.
And failed.
I got up, made toast and watched more "Shameless"
in which the piss-sodden tramp was again the object of several ladies'
attentions. Surely this isn't realistic? Do my lady readers seriously find
piss-sodden tramps attractive?
I went out to the garden to see how the pond was doing. The
filter's input was beginning to clag up again. Being made from clear plastic I
can see when it clags. I unclagged it, and within seconds it clagged again. A
second unclagging seemed to do the trick.
As I unclagged I had a stroke of genius involving what I
might do with a rock. But rather than doing anything with a rock I decided to
give the matter a little thought. I have
plans for making a bog filter this weekend - that rock idea might be part of
that.
I set off to work listening to the pundits on the radio
interviewing some ex-civil servant about the latest ridiculous position the
government has got itself into. The government has set up a public enquiry into
its handling of the COVID pandemic and has given those conducting the enquiry
full authority to investigate anything they consider relevant to the matter.
But the government is refusing
to hand over all sorts of documents that the enquiry wants to see; saying
that those documents are none of the enquiry's business. How does that work?
Why set up a public enquiry if you are then not going to let it enquire?
There was also talk about Slow Ways; a website of a national
network of long distance footpaths. That looks like being something with which
I might get involved. Possibly. I wonder how long it will be before it becomes
one big argument?
I got to work and had an email from the dentist who wanted
to tell me all about his "fair and ethical pricing policy". I
would have thought that charging as much as the market could stand would have
been the order of the day, but the
link he sent went to a document which went on for many pages but without
actually saying the price of anything. Someone's taken an age to produce this
document. Isn't this just a sign of our times: endless meaningless paperwork.
Mind you at work I also had cake and barbeque chicken too,
so the day wasn’t a bad one really.
I’ve now got a two-day weekend. I’ve not had many of those
lately…
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