I woke shivering at three o'clock this morning to find that
an alliance of “er indoors TM” and the dogs had captured
pretty much all of the duvet. I managed
to take back six inches of covers and then lay awake for much of the
rest of the night. I thought I had a major opportunity to get some duvet when “er
indoors TM” went for a wazz at half past four, but unusually it
was just her that went. There was no great canine exodus (as there usually
is) and the sleeping dogs weren't budging much. I shifted them sufficiently
to get enough duvet to cover myself, but when “er indoors TM”
came back she took back everything I'd gained, and then had a bit of a set-to
with one of the dogs (I think it was Treacle; it usually is).
At half past five I gave up and got up. I made toast and
watched an episode of "Alice in Borderland" which was
entertaining, but would have benefitted from someone bilingual in both Japanese
and English doing the translating. The program was originally made in Japanese
and in the English version the characters speak in pretty much the way that
Google Translate would speak. No
English-speaking actor would come out with the phrasing that the show uses.
With telly watched I got ready for work and set off
west-wards through the -hursts and the -dens aiming for Tunbridge Wells. You'd
be amazed at how many dustbin lorries I got stuck behind today.
As I drove the pundits on the radio were talking about the ongoing
situation in the Gaza strip where the Palestinians and Israelis are
indiscriminately killing each other again.
I blogged about this on 16
October 2015 when I wrote " Israelis and Palestinians continue to
kill each other. They have been doing that for as long as I can remember and
show no signs of stopping". I don't want to appear cynical, but there
was an interview on the radio
a couple of years ago with the leading lights on both sides of the
conflict. Both people being interviewed kept on about irreconcilable
differences dating back to twenty years before I was born. Sadly the only thing
either agreed on was that they would never agree.
There was also an interview with the head honcho of Unite
the Union who was grumbling that the Labour party would never get into power
unless they stopped
being so timid.
This is the trouble with our system of government though,
isn't it? Sometimes tough decisions need to be made, and tough decisions are
often vote-losers. Doing the right thing can get you out of office, and
threatening to do it can ensure you never get into office.
As I drove I found that I was (sort-of) following a
hot air balloon. I can remember following one deliberately many years ago. A
friend who was visiting suggested we followed it to watch it land. As well as
that hot air balloon we also followed a truck with a trailer. I will always
remember the hot air balloon not so much landing as crashing in a random field,
and the frantic rush to load it all onto the truck's trailer before the land
owner arrived. There used to be hot air balloons randomly crashing on the
Bat-Farm in years gone by. Sometimes they would escape before anyone could get
to them. Occasionally my mate would block their getaway with a land-rover and
pretend to be cross. The hot air balloon people would smile and offer a free
ride as a sweetener.
When you book a hot air balloon ride no one ever tells you
that the ending of the ride is somewhat random.
Having been unable to find my sandwich box this morning I
popped into Tesco in Pembury to get a sandwich. Like Sainsbury's in Aylesford,
rather than having staff on tills doing their job they too had staff glaring
with contempt at people fighting with the self service devices.
I hate the self-service tills; if I wanted to use them I
would pack it all in as a blood tester and get a job in a supermarket.
I got to work. In between doing work we had a “Name the Disney
Animation” competition in which I did surprisingly well.
As I came home my car came up with an alarm. It suggested I
might check the back left light. I did. It looks fine to me. I’ll phone the
garage in the morning…
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