I slept well last night – for over nine hours. I was
woken by a strange gurgling bubbling sound. The hose of my CPAP machine has
been getting condensation forming in it over the last week. I expect that’s to
do with it being cold at night.
I made toast and looked at the Internet as I do. This
morning my Facebook feed was again heaving with the posts about chess which
filled it yesterday. The adverts for dog training were still there, but loads
of people were commenting that they had paid good money and had nothing back
from these courses. I also saw quite a few posts featuring the navy’s aircraft
carrier HMS Prince of Wales too. I wonder why.
I had two messages from Facebook as well. The two porn
adverts that I reported yesterday have been removed. Actually applying their
community standards might be their New Year’s resolution.
I munzed, got Wordle on the third attempt, then seeing
sunshine got dressed and got ready for the off.
Once I’d scraped the ice from the car I took the dogs
up to the woods. It was a foggy day, but we had a good walk. Once we were away
from the car park we walked for nearly four miles and only saw one other group.
Mind you we did see a huge buzzard flying through the trees.
We walked for four miles and didn’t get *that*
grubby. Mind you the little ones were shivering when I loaded them into the
car. We came home for a quick shower of paws and tummies and then I had a
rather frustrating half-hour on the phone to the insurance people. “Stewart”
was more helpful than the other two people had been at Sainsburys insurance,
and after he’d taken all my details he put me through to the underwriter. The
underwriter said that he needed an electrician’s report. I said that one had
been done on Monday and had been emailed through… I got on to the people who
sent the electrician on Monday and they said they’d email me a copy of the
report.
I’m still waiting.
I’m left pondering though. I have an insurance policy
with one company. However when I come to claim, it turns out that the actual
insuring is being done by another company. All the first lot are doing seems to
be acting as a middleman. Next year I will go with the actual insurer and (as
Oliver Hardy once said) “cut out the middleman”.
Pausing only briefly to put back a fence panel that
had blown out in yesterday’s winds I then cracked on with some CPD.
For dull reasons that I explained over on that other blog I spent a few minutes
Googling and I found an advert. You can see it here. It is offering blood
film analysis (with a two-week turnaround time!) for three hundred and
twenty-eight quid. Bearing in mind I can do fifty of those a day I think I’m
missing a trick here…
Then finding myself underneath a pile of dogs I
watched a couple of episodes of “Victoria”. They were rather good, but
again finding myself woefully ignorant of nineteenth century history I turned
to Wikipedia. And again found that what was being presented as a historical
drama was actually factually incorrect. Chartists never stormed Buckingham
Palace… and certainly not just as Princess Louisa was being born.
I had another look at Facebook; I found myself still
being bombarded with adverts for chess-related pages. So I set myself up an
account on chess.com. so far I’m kicking the ass of a both with difficulty
rating “rather easy”.
“er indoors TM” came home from
babysitting littlun, and boiled up fish and chips which we scoffed whilst
watching the first two episodes of the new series of “The Traitors”. It’s
a good show in which everyone turns on everyone with the least provocation and
at the slightest excuse whilst the actual traitors pretend not to be at each
other’s throats.
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