Another bad night – if the dogs sleep at the
foot of the bed we all have space. If they want to sleep next to me (or on
top of me!) we don’t. I gave up trying to sleep.
Being the first of the
month I got out a fresh razor blade. For all that one lasts all month long, you
can't beat having a scrape with a new one.
I watched an episode of
“Peep Show” as I scoffed toast, then sparked up the lap-top. The
Internet seemed to be fairly quiet. I sent out the birthday video to the one
friend having a birthday today, and I saw that someone else had a birthday
today as well. Bill Mumy (Will Robinson in
the1960s show “Lost in Space”) was seventy today. During a rather busy
career he’s been a lead character in “Babylon 5”, he was in “Star
Trek”, he’s been in all sorts of things on telly as well as being a
successful musician… and everyone thinks of what he did when he was ten years
old. That must be annoying – I suppose this goes some way to explaining why so
many child stars don’t carry on in show business. If you have effectively
peaked before you have left school, you would probably want to try something
else.
I then chucked everyone
out of the Munzee Clan in readiness for the new game starting on Saturday then
did more on my quality management course which is turning out to be
surprisingly interesting.
Having kept me awake
for much of the night I wasn’t impressed to see the dogs sleeping so peacefully
as I got ready for work. And then I set off to find where I’d left my car.
Every day I park the car somewhere in the general vicinity of home, and then promptly
forget where that was.
I found the car just
down the road... I nearly walked past it as I had a vague idea it was halfway
to the scout hut. I set off up the motorway in daylight (for a change).
As I drove the pundits
on the radio were interviewing one of the head honchos at the British
Veterinary Association about the rules concerning XL Bullies
that came into force today.
With the RSPCA claiming
that tens of thousands of XL bullies may not have the now legally required
paperwork (the estimated total in the UK being between fifty and one hundred
thousand) it was felt that this attempt to control numbers of the breed is
just pissing in the wind.
The RSPCA's estimate
looks a tad high to me, but what do I know?
Meanwhile one of the
elected ministers at the Ministry of Justice is
standing down at the next election following threats and his constituency
office having been torched. I can't help but wonder what the police are doing
about this. This is clearly a success for terrorism, isn't it?
I got to work and did
that which I couldn't avoid. If all goes to plan this would be the last ever
Thursday on which I worked. I suspect things won't go to plan. I've heard it
said that God laughs when we make plans. But as Thursdays go, it wasn't a bad one.
At tea break my phone
beeped. I had an email from Kent County Council. Last week I wrote to them
suggesting that if they close a road for road works then they work on it until
the work is done, and not leave the road works unattended for days on end. Today
they replied to say they'd got my message, and would reply by the end of the
month. I wish I had deadlines like that...
Sadly having driven
into work in daylight for a core shift it was dark when I left work. But the
sunset shortly before home time was rather pretty.
“er indoors TM” boiled up a very good
bit of scran which we scoffed whilst watching more “Junior Bake Off”.
I really should have an early night…
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