Just a quickie

because I ought to be in bed.

No, I really really ought to be in bed. Everyone else is. But it isn’t quiet. The wind is howling and bizarrely, there are workmen outside ripping up the road surface on the main road a few hundred yards away. Which beats @porridgebrain’s zombie heads into a cocked hat 😉

Sounds like a warzone out there. Sounds like helicopters and tanks and all sorts. Assuming that tanks have reversing beepers on. Which they probably don’t.

Hm, did I mention I’m really rather tired?

Let’s see, cover the important stuff. Education. Talked to the kids about remembrance. Again. Figure one of these years it’ll stick. Discussed with Small the importance of drinking when he announced an hour into a 90 minute drive that he hadn’t had a drink all day and was rather thirsty. Discussed with Big the importance of not following the pack when she alleged this was because no one else had. Resisted the temptation to ask “if she jumped off a bridge would you?” as that always used to really really annoy me as a child/ teen.

Big had rookie lifeguard, Small didn’t. That was her last swimming lesson until January as the pool closes on Monday. She has got two more squad sessions before then, and the club are arranging one session a week of wetness and one of land training so she won’t completely lose condition.

Depressing facts of the day. #twitterjoketrial Google it. And #Iamspartacus. Which did at least trend.

(You can’t be bothered? Oh, OK. Some guy tweeted a while back that he wanted to blow up an airport. He was joking. The context was fairly obvious that he was joking. He was arrested, tried, convicted and today his appeal failed. Stephen Fry has offered to pay his fine, but the fact remains he has a criminal record.

Now, I could be wrong (I often am) but in this case, I think the law is an ass. And it disappoints me that so many ppl allowed this to get so far. We’re just following the law sounds to me like “I was only following orders guv” and that’s not accepted as a defence. Sometimes the law is wrong. We wrote it, we can rewrite it. And when it convicts an idiot and destroys his life (he can’t get a job now) the law is wrong. )

Also depressed by ppl burning poppies. And ppl boycotting Amazon. But there you go.

And now I really must go to bed.