2010 — 25 April: Sunday
I was pleased when Mike sent over his latest batch of photos from our walk as1 I'd pointed out the colourful potential of this particular shot...
... and I thought it would turn out well.
There have been no further electricity supply glitches2 (which is just as well as it can be very tedious resetting a batch of different time displays, each with its own idiosyncratic user interface). And, speaking of time, it's already (somehow) managed to creep round to 01:27 and I really need some sleep ahead of a busy day. G'night.
The original idea...
... had been for Peter and Peter's g/f to show up here sometime today and for us to take in a movie and/or a meal somewhere. The best-laid plans and all that. In fact they arrived early yesterday evening, took me out for a meal down in Soton, unloaded a heap of Peter's ski stuff into his room (good job I'd nearly cleared it) and departed after Peter's g/f had browsed through and gathered up a small set of books from the "discards" pile that's currently weighing down the dining room table.3 Every little helps, as dear ol' Dad used to say.
It's 08:04, and pouring with rain out there right now. But I have plenty to do so who cares?
This delicious morsel even made the BBC Radio 3 news. Source and snippet:
The Foreign Office was last night forced to issue a public apology after an official document suggested Britain should mark the Pope's visit this year by asking him to open an abortion clinic, bless a gay marriage and launch a range of Benedict-branded condoms.
While the story would have been perfect coming direct from the "Onion" (so I checked first) it reminds me of the witch-hunt that occurred within Paramount to find a sufficiently junior victim in the art department to fire after some worthy studio executive had ordered Spock's pointy Vulcan ears to be airbrushed into "normality" on a publicity poster.
A spot of...
... supplies shopping in between the spots of rain and, before you know it, it's somewhat past optimal lunch time. 13:46 and I'm hungry (again). But I only ate yesterday...
Oops!
I don't know which is the more worrying:
- The fact that Robert Thouless' excellent little book Straight and Crooked thinking now malingers on the "Neglected Books" web site (and is in fact currently available as a PDF to download from there), or
- The fact that I paid four shillings for my own copy in December 1970, or
- The fact that I have incorrectly had an "n" in the author's surname for 40 years of listing it in various card indexes and computer databases, or
- The fact4 that I cannot currently find my physical copy of the damned thing in any case! (Book or otherwise.)