Being wide awake far too early I watched the last
episode of “Pride and Prejudice” and found myself thinking. In much of
the show getting a letter was a big thing. Sending a letter was the only way of
communicating over any distance. You would take an age composing a letter, the
thing would then be sent and take a couple of days to get where it was intended
to go, and you wouldn’t expect a reply for a week at best. It is so easy to
take today’s instant communication for granted.
And talking of instant communication I sparked up the
lap-top. Back in the day I used to have a newspaper instead which would give me
a snapshot of the state of the world as it had been late the day before. These
days the Internet allows instant updates and the ability to comment and reply…
and we just use this to argue and squabble,
This morning’s squabbles were rather embarrassing.
There’s been an outbreak of meningitis locally, and so many
people were posting about it on local Facebook groups seemingly only to
demonstrate their ignorance. Just because one of the victims was of school age
doesn’t mean that schools give you meningitis. Just because people with
meningitis are in hospital doesn’t mean that you can contract meningitis by
being in the hospital’s general vicinity.
Vaccinations do *not* cause autism…
It bothers me that not only are so many people so thick,
they also clearly take great pride in showing it.
As I drove to work so the pundits on the radio were
again talking about the war in the Middle East. They were interviewing the head
honcho of Hays Travel. Can you believe that
holiday bookings for destinations in the Middle East are seriously down? The
obvious question would be who would be so dumb as to book a holiday in a war
zone, but it would seem that quite a few people have done so, and quite a few
aren’t cancelling their arrangements.
And Donald Trump has got the arse. Having slapped
financial tariffs on all of his allies and then having been incredibly rude
about them in public, he’s now acting surprised when no one wants to help to put him out of the
hole he’s dug for himself.
I popped in to Sainsburys for a sandwich then went on
to work for another day fighting with the new computer. I say “fighting”;
I made rather good progress with it. Today I was testing out the instruction
manual to see if there’s any areas where the instructions might be bettered. I
found a couple.
And then I came home.
I did have a plan to take the dogs out, but “er
indoors TM” had taken them round the
block earlier. And I’d had to park a ridiculously long way away from the house.
Instead we did “FEED THE FISH”.
I had a little doze, and then I had a message.
Apparently my mum and dad’s old house is up
for sale. Looking at the photos, the chap we sold it to has done a load of
work on it including replacing all the windows and putting in patio doors, a
new kitchen and bathroom, and decorating throughout… with that in mind , looking
at the asking price and comparing that to what we sold it for, the chap who
bought if off us hasn’t made quite the profit you might think he might have
made.
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