The Bells Have Made Me Deaf

Clocks have finally gone forward to extend the all important after office executive golfing hours and we are once again in sync with the hub of the universe…. the US of A… who deem to do their daylight saving in advance.

An uneventful week of work has passed leaving nothing but heavy footprints of knackeredness all over my carcass. Therewith I have spent the last couple of days in a stupor or asleep. This afternoon being so springlike, I felt compelled to make the effort to participate in breathing fresh air and managed to drive all the way to Portavogie where I threw sticks for the dog on a beach full of Canada Geese all making that goosey sound of contentment. I stopped for a rest on the way back in Ballyhalbert and watched three maniacs in the tide on jet skis. Five minutes of that was more than enough. Home and bed was calling me…

I think I need some of this stuff.

While on my morning tea break I decided to browse the public timeline at Twitter. These are from Jiang Zemin and for some reason, made me laugh.

Practice Bryan Adams song ‘I do it for you’ on my erhu.10
minutes ago from web

Yangzi river is very cold today. I think we can see frogs again. They love listen to my playing piano. 12 minutes ago from web

Today I return to Yangzhou. Meet again with Mr Lu, my tailor. At last I will get my new trousers. 16 minutes ago from web

I use retirement for acquaintance of Western internet technology. What is American Web 2.0? China also needs it. 19 minutes ago from web

I passed one of these yesterday in Newtownards. Needless to say it was parked or I fear that a 2 ton van would have had little chance of overtaking it. It’s not often that a car turns my head but this one certainly did. It doesn’t need to be set in some photogenic location to stand out. Parked outside a grotty petrol station is just as good. I’m only sad that the traffic behind me didn’t want to linger and gaup as much as I did.

I cannot praise highly enough the largeness of the transit van. While I may have been a little timid before I bought one, now that I’ve had some time to get used to the capacity, I fully appreciate the extra space, sensibly huge steering wheel, large wing mirrors and the ability to see over the hedges and in through peoples living room windows. It’s wonderful. Not only that…. but other road users take to the hedges when they see me coming. I don’t need to give way…. not one inch. Nobody argues with big.

My workbench all but disappeared beneath the chaos that is, no storage space. I think I have almost outgrown the utility room.

and let this be an end to it or I shall take my toys and go home!

For the epidemic now under way from what was merely described by Ed as a nasty outbreak I can only wish for the next five from Cybez.

To bring back Hanging for murder ring
0901 00 00 01 Yes 0901 00 00 02 No
To let Asda open all day on Sunday ring
0901 00 00 03 Yes 0901 00 00 04 No
To ban all Morris dancing ring
0901 00 00 05 Yes 0901 00 00 06 No

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