I had another good night, but woke to another
cold morning. I made toast and as I turned on the telly there was a very old
episode of "Bullseye" featuring Jim
"super, smashing, great" Bowen. As was always the way in this
show he was faced with two rather frightened looking contestants who (in a
display of wanton greed) gambled some rather crappy prizes in the forlorn
hope of winning a caravan they neither needed nor wanted, and lost the lot.
There is an urban myth in Ashford that somewhere on a disused railway yard near
Matalan there is the remains of an old speedboat which was won by contestants
on that show who abandoned it there as they had absolutely no use for it, and
having abandoned it there, there it has stayed for forty years.
I watched an episode of
"Peep Show" featuring a supposedly nudey Olivia Coleman, and
as I turned Netflix off the TV was playing an infomercial for the latest model
of the nutribullet which still features the grinning bimbo from the "Yes
Car Credit" adverts. I blogged about her ten years ago; in the meantime she's
got a family and would seem to feed them on stuff minced up in her all-new
nutribullit. They’ve made a Mark II of the thing which she is now flogging.
I had a very quick look
on-line and saw that Sainsburys had sent me an email. They had analysed the
shopping for which I'd got savings on my Nectar card over the last year.
Apparently in 2023 my top purchase from Sainsburys was small bottles of diet
coke, with Shaken Udder salted caramel milk shake in second position and
all-butter croissants in third.
I wouldn't have thought
that. But their computer says so, so it must be true...
Unless their computer
comes from the same place as the post office's computer. The pundits on the
radio were talking of little else but the Horizon computer scandal this
morning. A lot of what was said was speculation about what they didn't know or
repetition of what little they did know. There was nothing new to be said, but
they still talked and talked. The only thing of interest on the matter was in
the "Yesterday in Parliament" section; with all the MPs
banging on about the Horizon scandal, some MP from the Scottish Nationalist
Party listed loads of other miscarriages of justice and asked when ITV would
make a drama series about those so that Parliament might then take them
seriously as well.
The chap had a point. A
week ago there was nothing but Gaza in the news. It got a little mention today,
but not much. And I've heard nothing from Ukraine for ages.
I stopped off at
Ashford's Sainsbury's for petrol, and at Pembury's Tesco for cereal bars (I like those).
You'd have thought that
petrol would have featured on my Nectar card purchase list, wouldn't you? I
wonder if Tesco's clubcard keeps track on what I buy?
At tea break I had an
email from the people in whose field we stage Dog Club. They'd had an email
from the people who provide the insurance. Do we have any XL Bullies that come
to Dog Club?
We don't.
I'd have thought that a
banned breed of dog would automatically be excluded from any insurance policies
anyway; I expect those providing the policies have had so many "episodes"
that they need to point out the obvious. It's a sad old world in which the
obvious needs to be pointed out, but there it is.
Once home I posted
about this to the club’s Facebook page so’s people can’t say they haven’t been
told.
“er indoors TM” boiled up a rather
good bit of dinner which we scoffed whilst watching a couple of episodes of “The Reluctant
Landlord”. A show from six years go; it was rather good.
As we scoffed we had a bottle of plonk. I like a bottle of
plonk… However at three quid a bottle this stuff lacked a certain je ne sais
quoi…
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