I woke feeling particularly grim this morning,
but that's nothing unusual these days. I got up, farted around, then made
toast. Needing something new to watch on telly I started on the second season
of "Foundation" on Apple TV. Despite being based on Asimov's
famous series of books and despite being produced by Asimov's daughter, apart
from the names of the main characters the show bears pretty much no relation
whatsoever to the books. However, like so many other TV series, having watched
the first season I really feel I need to see it through to the bitter end.
With telly tellied I
set off to work. As I walked up the road I picked my way round the discarded
emptied bins scattered across the pavement, walked past the bin men who were
bellowing across the street at each other, and into the corner shop where there
was quite the anti-bin men tirade going on. |I wasn't the only one who'd had to
negotiate a rather tortuous route round the emptied bins they'd just flung. The
local bin men aren't going to win any popularity contests.
I set off west-wards to
work listening to the radio as I went. There was a lot of talk about the two
by-elections yesterday in which the Conservatives had their arses handed to
them on a plate as Labour won
both in landslide victories.
Mind you it would seem
this isn't any damning of government policy or glowing endorsement for the
Labour party. The so-called expert who was wheeled on to discuss the matter
seemed to think that the Labour victory was all about how the electorate fancy
Sir Kier Starmer more than they fancy Rishi Sunak. And the observation was made
that if that idiot Boris Johnson was still in power the Conservatives wouldn't
have lost. For all that the bloke has been caught out in lie after lie, the masses love him
There was talk about
President Biden's trip to Israel and how he's trying to milk Congress for
billions of dollars to give to the Israelis. And how faced with a new war in
the Middle East, interest in the war in Ukraine is rapidly dwindling. Is war *really*
something just to entertain the Western world? From what was said on this
morning's radio it would seem so.
And then the fatuous
windbag on the morning's "Thought For The Day" said not to
really worry too much about what is going on in Gaza as God will sort it all
out... one way or another. Like God has demonstrably sorted out so much else?
As I drove I was very
conscious of the idiot who was not five yards from my rear bumper for pretty
much the length of the A262. I also saw that the two cars which had gone
through the hedges near Sissinghurst last night had been extricated, but the
one which had come off the road just outside Biddenden last week was still in
the hedge there. This made me wonder...
And I spent much of the
day wondering.
Do I really want to
keep making this journey? And is the trip to Maidstone *that* much
easier? - on Monday I had to take a five-mile diversion to avoid the carnage at
junction five of the motorway.
I left home this morning
at seven o’clock and got home this evening at seven o'clock.And then parked
three streets away as there wasn’t anywhere closer to park.
When I retire I might
just knock hospital work on the head entirely.
There must be something else I could do... something that doesn't
involve round trips of sixty miles every day and not getting home so late and
not working nights and weekends.
I wonder what…
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