Yesterday I started off by saying (about Sunday) "I went to bed last night feeling all in having spent much of the afternoon and evening falling asleep. I was wide awake at four o’clock this morning". Yesterday I was knackered - I slept all through my lunch break, and once the evening's ironing was done I was fast asleep in front of the telly within minutes. I again had a relatively early night last night but was still wide awake at four o'clock having seen every hour of the night.
I gave up trying to sleep, made toast, and watched an
episode of "Shameless" in which many of the protagonists were
doing the dirty deed, but only one set had actually taken their pants off
first. I'm sure I remember pants being quite an obstacle to doing the dirty deed... it has been a while.
I had a quick look at the Internet. McAfee were still sending me emails saying that "a response was needed to service my account" even though they gave me a refund two days ago. Other than that not a lot had happened in the Internet overnight so I set off to work.
As I drove I listened to the news of the day. Palestine and
Israel were having yet another
fight. I can remember an interview on the radio with senior
Israeli and Palestinian officials a year or so ago. Both kept harping back to
incidents and offences which had happened long before either had been born, and
both admitted that all the time they kept doing this, there was never going to
be an end to the conflict. Sadly this conflict continues with neither side
seemingly having any interest in ending it.
And there was a lot of talk about banking. Is having a bank
account a right? Can the bank tell you to get knotted and close your account if
they don't like you? Well, demonstrably they can, as has happened to Nigel
Farage. who has had his bank accounts closed allegedly as "an
act of revenge by the “establishment” for Brexit". Officially it's
nothing to do with Brexit, officially banks find high profile celebrities and
politicians to be hard work.
But whilst you might be forgiven for wanting to shake the
"establishment's" hand, should the bank be able to do this?
That's the question, isn't it? Several politicians had words to say on the
matter, which I found frankly amazing. I find myself following current affairs
with something of a sense of "WTF is going on" these days. The
whole premise of a Conservative government is that they don't actually govern,
isn't it? They farm out the donkey-work of running the country to those who
will do it as a private money-making business.
And those running their own business can therefore then
pick and choose with whom they deal. That's been the plan for years, hasn't it?
Take the water and gas and railway companies. They were
once in public ownership, but aren't any more and so prioritize profit over
service.
The government of thirty years ago decided to sell off so
much on the nation's assets to make a profit. At the time they were told what a
stupid idea it was, and now they are seeing the error of their ways as they try
to call the shots and get the arse when they demonstrably can't.
Banks are private institutions. They aren't a public
service and so don't have to offer service to everyone, do they? If they want
to tell Nigel they won't work with him because they don't like him, that's
their prerogative.
Isn't it?
Along the same lines apparently the head honchos of the
country's four biggest banks are being called in to explain to the Prime
Minister why they aren't increasing interest rates to savers as high as they
might. I suspect the head honchos of the country's four biggest banks will
stick two fingers up at him.
Work was work. As I cracked on I found myself thinking
about colleagues, friends and acquaintances who are moving house at the moment.
With house prices falling, now is a good time to buy a house...
provided you aren't trying to finance that purchase by selling a house.
I've often whinged that I would like to move house, but now
that doing so is a realistic proposition, would I really? Where would we move
to? Going out into the countryside to get away from town life is all very well,
but I know so many people who've done that just to move back again as living in
the arse end of nowhere is impractical (at best). And we've got so much
clutter in the house. We'd have to chuck out so much stuff. And the house needs
modernising. And I've spent so much time and money in the garden...
Perhaps I might stay put... for now
Work was work. Being on an early was good; I got out early (dur!) and took the dogs to the woods. Whilst they were playing silly beggars something caught my eye. Something big seemed to be moving away from us down the track we were about to take. It might have been a shadow, but I’m not convinced it wasn’t a deer.
er indoors TM” boiled up a very good bit of dinner which we washed down with a decent bottle of plonk whilst watching another episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”. Insomnia plus plonk equals rather tired…
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