Bailey woke me in the small hours when she started
coughing. Well, I say "coughing". Just like my Fudge used to,
Bailey doesn't so much "cough" as "quack".
When she coughs she sounds just like an angry duck. It only lasted long enough
to wake me up, but from then on I dozed fitfully not getting more than a few
minutes' sleep at any time.
Eventually I gave up trying to sleep, got up and made
toast, and watched another episode of "Shameless" in which the
scriptwriters would have us believe that a sacked trainee pharmacist (with
only a few weeks' experience and no qualifications whatsoever) would have a
post-graduate level understanding of pharmacology and would be able to make all
manner of designer drugs with a child's toy chemistry set. Mind you the same
writers would also have us believe that our heroes "did the dirty deed"
with their pants still on (again). As I've said before that show could be so
much better had the scriptwriters made just the smallest amount of effort.
I set off work-wards listening to the radio as I went.
Apparently the leader of the opposition Sir Kier Starmer is travelling at the
moment; meeting all sorts of foreign leaders as he goes. Opposition leaders
rarely get this treatment from the leaders of other countries. The pundits on
the radio saw this as evidence that all these foreign leaders see him as
Britain's future, and consequently Rishi Sunak is already seen as history by
the rest of the world.
Is he? Time will tell - it always does.
Mind you Sir Kier is apparently keen to re-negotiate
the Brexit deal which pretty much everyone in the UK sees as a bad deal.
But he will be on a hiding to nothing as there is pretty much no interest at
all anywhere in Europe for digging up the past.
And there was more talk about Russell Brand who denies all
the allegations made against him (well he would, wouldn't he?) Apparently
yesterday the police
received rape allegations about incidents which supposedly happened between
2006 to 2013. Whilst I'm not condoning what he might have done, why does
someone wait over ten years before going to the police?
And apparently You-Tube have stopped him making money
out of his You-Tube channel.
I suspect that will hurt him far more than the adverse
publicity.
I got to work and spent most of the day with a guts ache;
with a gut the size of mine, that's a lot to ache. And with work worked I came
home. “er indoors TM” boiled up a very good chili which we
washed down with a bottle of Sainsbury’s red wine. As basic as red wine goes,
and far better than stuff four times the price. As we scoffed and guzzled we
watched more “Lego Masters: USA”. Not too shabby at all.
And in closing I’ll make the observation that today was
International Talk like a pirate day which was seemingly totally missed by
everyone
Ten years ago I wrote "In previous years I've
blogged about this. I won't go over the old ground; I'll just say that it was a
fun idea at the time which has probably long since had its day. It's not been
the same since its founder Mad Cap'n Tom threw in the sponge".
I think that was probably fair - now even the website has gone.
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