I intended to have an early night last night: I
eventually went to my pit shortly before one o’clock. But the dogs were tired
and soon settled, and with them quiet I slept well.
I got up at eight o’clock, made toast and had my usual
look at the Internet. Reform UK featured quite prominently in my Facebook feed
this morning. Two of its latest recruits have ballsed up and mistakenly voted against party policy in the House of
Commons. And having got voted into power in the local county council after
promising endless savings, the Reform UK councillor in charge of making them
has resigned because they’ve had a year and not actually made any savings.
However on a more local level things are different. Our
Reform UK councillor is
working wonders in highlighting the issues with
the pot holes in the local roads. And sadly our local (Labour) MP is full of hot air, and has turned out to
be something of a disappointment..
I sent out birthday wishes, Munzed, and starting with
“Tired” I eventually Wordled my way to “swoop” on the last
attempt.
The weather forecast was light rain showers for the
whole day, so I took a chance and took the dogs to the woods. As I drove “In
Our Time” was on the radio; today talking about the plays of William
Shakespeare. He died over four hundred years ago, and according
to Wikipedia he “is widely regarded as the greatest writer in
the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist”. So many
people still rave about his works. We read his plays at school… I can remember
them being tedious and dull. But (like with pretty much every bit of
literature we ever read at school), the teachers did their level best to
kill it stone dead. Many years ago we also read “Fahrenheit 451”, “Lord
of the Flies”, “2001”, “Animal Farm”, “1984”, “All
Quiet on the Western Front” (among others). My English teachers over-analysed
everything, made all sorts of tenuous nonsensical connections and
extrapolations, and sucked all the pleasure and enjoyment out of every book we
ever come close to. Years later I went back to these books (and others)
to find that they are actually rather good.
Why do English teachers make a point of putting students
off of reading?
I really should try Shakespeare again…
We got to the woods to find the light rain had subsided to
little more than drizzle. We kept (mostly) to the more well-trodden
tracks and once we were away from the car park the woods weren’t as muddy as
they might have been. But sticking to these tracks meant our walk was about a
mile shorter than usual.
We came home where the dogs had their paws and bellies
washed. I made us both a cuppa and sparked up my lap-top. A friend had seen the
Prime Minister in
Hastings. He was talking about the ongoing Mendelson scandal… He
won’t last. The trouble he faces is that he average voter doesn’t understand politics
and just wants to be entertained.
I marked more trainee work, wrote up some CPD, did a
lesson and some puzzles on chess dot com, put
washing in to scrub and then had a minor pootle in the garden. The seed in the
bird feeder had got damp and had sprouted into grass, so I eventually managed
to get the thing apart, I got the grass out and scrubbed it up. I put the bits on
the radiator to dry.
By then my shirts were washed so I ironed them. Shirts
are far easier to iron when still damp. And then I cracked on with the rest of
the ironing. As I did I watched some episodes of “Four In a Bed” in
which like was certainly *not* compared with like. There was a rather
fancy hotel (which pulled out after the second episode), a Blackpool
seaside B&B, a rather rough and ready pub, and a glamping campsite. It
really wasn’t a fair contest, but it rarely is.
I put the bird feeder back together again, filled it,
and put it back into place just as it was getting dark.
“er indoors TM” boiled
up pork chops which we scoffed whilst watching this week’s episode of “Star
Trek: Starfleet Academy” which was perhaps the best one so far. I won’t
give any spoilers, but having been a Trekkie for over fifty years did help…
Oh – and as the rain continues to fall, the hosepipe ban has been lifted.
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