Again with an alarm set I was wide awake for half the
night. Over brekkie I watched an episode of “Friday Night Dinner” and
polished my walking boots, then had a quick look at the Internet; if only to
check the traffic update. Whichever half-wit which was allowed to reinstate “Operation
Brock” has certainly ballsed up. Mind you, that’s democracy for you.
Perhaps if we elected the right people to run Kent County Council (i.e.
capable of running a council)…
Apart from a surprisingly heartfelt squabble about whether
“Logan’s Run” was best watched on Blu-Ray or DVD there wasn’t much
happening on-line so I got ready to see if Google’s traffic predictions matched
reality.
It turned out that Google Maps was right - the traffic on
the motorway was moving, and moving better than it had been yesterday. As I
drove the pundits on the radio were talking about the amount of foreign
students in UK universities. It was claimed that some universities get up to
eighty per cent of their income from
overseas students. I can't help but wonder if this implies that a
university education isn't something the average Britisher can afford any more?
There was also talk about the future funding of
the BBC. Heaven forbid the BBC should have adverts. There was a lot of talk
about how the BBC have gone into partnership with Disney to produce Doctor Who.
How times have changed since the 1990s when Doctor Who was cancelled despite it
being the Beeb's biggest moneyspinner. It simply wasn't the sort of thing the
BBC wanted to be seen to be doing; regardless of the profit. And there was a lot of consternation about
the future of the BBC World Service; it turns out that those who fund the BBC (through
the TV licence fee) aren't at all keen on funding the BBC World Service
which for the most part isn't even listened to in the UK. The most surprising
part of this revelation was that it came as a surprise.
And meanwhile our old mate Science is looking set to save
the world by turning carbon
dioxide into methanol.
What we do with tons of methanol rather than tons of carbon
dioxide is yet to be announced, but I suspect that is just a piddling detail.
Work was work; I spent quite a bit of time bothering the
people who are supposed to be paying my pension. And with work done I came home
where I shall be for the next six days. The journey home was nowhere near as
easy as the journey into work; sitting in stationary traffic on the motorway
looking at the torrential rain.
“er indoors TM” boiled up a good bit
of dinner as she does which we scoffed whilst watching more of “The Traitors:
Australia” in which people professed friendship whilst stabbing each other
in the back. It’s rather entertaining.
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