News idea. No repeats of news items on the wireless in the morning. I predominantly listen to the wireless whilst lying in bed in the mornings. I’ve developed the knack of filtering out a lot of it but it is noticeable that each bulletin mostly repeats everything from earlier ones. I get to the point of thinking to myself “yes I know this, you already told me”. Ok in all fairness to the beeb they very much have to assume that people are tuning in at staggered times. Not everyone gets up at five thirty to go for their morning run.
Perhaps the old broadcast method of distributing news is coming to the end of its natural life and we are all about to move to an app based approach where we can specify exactly what we want to hear. In my case I could say I only want to hear that we didn’t win the cricket once and I don’t want to hear anything that involves politics, religion or bad things generally. Maybe I just have to stop listening full stop.
On the positive front we had another great evening at the Morning Star celebrating the mid winter solstice. The Guinness flowed freely, we sang heartily and Ness the landlady had ritually slaughtered a pig earlier in the day and turned it into sausage rolls which were consumed during the half time break. She also distributed a wonderful concoction of dried fruits wrapped in pastry that are commonly known as mince pies.
Got home to find THG, Tom and John in the shed watching Luke the Nuke steamroller his opponent to cruise into the third round of the world darts championship, or whatever it’s called. Is it possible to cruise in a steamroller? All down to your definition of cruise I guess. I wouldn’t bet against Luke winning the tourney again this year.
Got a few errands to run today including picking THG and Tom up from their downtown shopping spree. Been actually thinking I might nip downtown meself. I haven’t totally made my mind up on this as ordinarily it baffles me as to why anyone would want to go there. However my new found mobility has brought with it a self confidence and a sense of curiosity. Where would the world be without curiosity? More cats obvs. Parking might be an issue. See how it goze.
We normally at this time of year go on our annual expedition to the Cheese Society where we buy far too much cheese and spend a lot more dosh than might considered to be sensible (not by me of course). When I say “we” it is usually me and one of the kids. Joe probs. However Joe ain’t here this year and I’m thinking I might cut down on the amount of cheese I buy. Maybe even get it from Waitrose. We don’t need it until the 28th which is when the Davieses are having our Christmas dinner this year. Every year I lament the non availability of Bel Paese cream cheese on the shelves. A seasonal delight stemming from my childhood. That and tubes of Austrian smoked processed cheese. We used to fight for the round end bits. You can still get these but not the Bel Paese. Huh. Christmas is also the only time of year I buy TUC crackers. Man can live on cheese and TUC alone. And crispy duck and cheese and onion crisp sandwiches etc.
Anyway, gotta go. A cup of tea and a bit of toast await.
The fox btw came at 04:27.