I had another restless night. I'm getting fed up with them.
I got up rather earlier than I might have done, made toast and scoffed it
whilst watching an episode of "Brassic" in which Grumio was
again running round in the nip. He seems to do that a lot.
It was rather cold as I walked out to find my car. For once
I didn't have far to go to find it. I drove round to Sainsbury's petrol station
to refuel. The miserable old bat was on the till again, and she was gossiping
with her mate. The two of them were managing to do the tills and take the money
without interacting with the customers at all as they carried on their
conversation. It would seem her mate has some sort of dietary intolerance. The
miserable old bat would name a food, and her mate would say how it affected
her. As I listened it appeared there wasn't a single thing that didn't either
bung her up solid or have her squitting through the eye of a needle (as she
so eloquently put it). I'm no consultant enterologist but it strikes me
that the obvious thing to do here is to take two foods with completely opposite
effects and eat them together. Surely one would counteract the other?
As I drove up the motorway the pundits on the radio were
talking about the ongoing crisis in dentistry where there is spiralling tooth decay in children.
This is strange... my teeth are crap; as a child and
teenager I had filling after filling. But the fruits of my loin had much better
fangs as did their generation. When they were younger there was talk of
children and teenagers having no fillings at all. I can remember cubs at days
out having the most healthy packed lunches. It would seem that now they've
grown up they are rebelling and giving their children sugar to sprinkle on
their sweets.
And there was talk about how President Putin has seriously got the arse with the
Western world for giving the Ukrainians weapons. He's threatening dire
repercussions if the weapons given by Western countries supposedly for use on
Ukrainian soil are fired into Russia.
It just amazes me that whoever is that is handing out
missiles didn't see this coming.
I got to work; I did my bit. As I worked I phoned the bank
to tell them about next week's holiday, and to tell them not to put a stop on
my credit card when they see it is being used overseas. They said they
wouldn't. I told them that they said that to several friends only to go on and
stop theirs.
And I phoned the vet to organise flea and worming
treatments for the dogs. Flea treatments is easy enough; you just rub some
jollop on the back of their necks. But getting a worming pill down a canine
neck takes some doing. As I found out this evening.
I came home via the vets where I picked up the treatments.
I popped Bailey’s tablet into a lump of cheese and she yummed it up. Morgan was
also easily tricked into having his. But Treacle has seen it all before. I hid
her tablet in a piece of cheese. She took the cheese, gave it one bite, spat it
all out and quickly ate all the cheese leaving the tablet. I tried again and we
had a repeat performance. I pinned her down and poked the tablet down her
throat. She glared at me and spat it out. Eventually I tricked her by putting
the tablet into a lump of cheese about the size of a golf ball which she
immediately devoured before the other two could get any.
“er indoors TM” boiled up a very
good bit of dinner which we scoffed whilst watching another episode of “Race
Across the World”. Our heroes were heading out of Brazil into Argentina. Maybe
we might go there one day… if only it wasn’t so far away.
And in closing today spare a thought for Moonbase Alpha.
When I was a lad there was a wonderful
sci-fi show on the telly. It was set on a fictional Moonbase Alpha, and
they had various adventures as the Moon travelled through space. The Moon was
off on its travels having been blasted out of Earth orbit on 13 September 1999.
When I watched that show this all seemed so far into the
future... it's now twenty-five years ago. I think it fair to say that the
future didn't pan out quite how Gerry Anderson would have had us believe.
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