Sunday 3
I’m gonna try to work backward and see if that helps me recall what’s happened over the past four days, apart from not speaking to Nat for the first two of them. I, as always, woke on the sofa (it’s most comfortable place to sleep since I had my hips done) to discover that Deb was already downstairs and on the PC and that the Andrew Marr Show was already halfway through; can’t recall last time I actually got to watch all of it! He was interviewing Chris Pattern (former and last Governor of Hong Kong before the Chinese took it back) who is now some big cheese on the Board that oversees the operation of the BBC. Why is it that there are so many out for a quick buck cunts around who are willing to destroy the single best public broadcasting service in the World in order to open it up to competition from the likes of BSkyB. Not saying Pattern’s one of them but he’s certainly been close with many who are. After all wasn’t it always, until the last Labour Government, the Conservatives who were accusing the BBC of an institutionalised left-wing bias? If that is true it’s rather ironic considering the percentage of high ups at the BBC who are there as a result of privileged public school educations and an Oxbridge education.
Hooray; Nat needs a new phone, The N95 is an absolute sod to try and charge, and Deb has quite unintentionally come across the phone I tried to persuade her to buy from the t-Mobile shop in Gloucester
A 2.1 Android resistive touch screened phone with WiFi and GPS … WTF for £30 including £10 top-up credit less £5 off via Quidco and net cost £15 for what is to all intents and purposes a Smart Phone plus 6 months free Internet. We bought two, one for Nat and one for me to play with. I can do most things, semi pro anyway, on Symbian and iPhone too easy anyway once you get your head around iTunes and/or over the air downloading. Apart from setting up Josh’s phone, Expedia Mini, on his birthday I’m very much an Android virgin and look forward to learning to flash the ROM and installed outside developer’s ROM’s (like Darkie, yes that’s his name, in Switzerland).
After this was done we told the kids that we, they’re elderly parents, were off to tend to the allotment (the allotment designed to save us money we’d otherwise spend on food in order to spend it instead on them) and that they were to make sure they didn’t get up and do anything while we were out as we can’t imagine what it would be like to come home to find the vacuuming or dusting or ironing done. That’s the sort of thing we live to do and for the kids to do them would leave us with all this useless free time that we no longer recall how to fill.
We got to the allotment about 10:30 and while Deb did some planting and weedding I did some hoeing and watered everything. Things are coming along well be look rather pathetic compared to the adjoining plots. This is because we deliberately did not plant early becase we were going away for a week and if we’d planted before we went everything would have died of thirst before we returned. So our allotment looks like everyone else’s did a month ago. No mind it’s not a competition after all. Must Win Must Win!!!
After we’d done and I’d taken some photos with the new camera and my Nokia N8 (for comparison purposes plus the Nokia has better panoramic photo software). Leaving the site, after saying hello to a few people, Sunday morning is when the site shop’s open so it’s the busiest day of the week, we drove to ASDA for a quick shop for essentials, beer and beer in my case, and while on our way Deb dropped the bombshell that due to yet another unplanned financial outlay this month I wouldn’t be going out for the planed meal with my workmates on Thursday. Great News…Not!
Bought 2 phones
Allotment
Asda
Judo Mum
Nat photo
Tweet
Work
Sandt Twiiter a/c
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