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It’s Monday-thursday

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it’s going to be hot 23°C? We’re going to have known nothing like it.

Monday-thursday: a day where the queen gives arms to the poor. Armed, one day the poor will rise up and it will become all Citizen-Smith here. Or something like that.
I have too much of a cold to enjoy the hot weather, dammit, I shall not complain.

Alternative vote: The Tories say that the Politician with the 3rd most votes will get in. They say, according to this leaflet, that there are no wasted votes in FPtP (First past the post). It looks to me as if they have taken all the evidence and drawn the diametrically opposite conclusions. The No voters look to be in the majority in the polls now, I suspect that people simply don’t understand how it works; plus the No-campaigners are lying about its consequences. All they have to do is use the numbers to illustrate advantages (or otherwise) then we could make up our minds. Perhaps the root of the problem is that they’re all afraid of talking numbers; such a fear is widespread. Politicians still haven’t really grasped why we, the public, hate them.

Spirit of Renewal?

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In addition to the License agreement, here are some notes of guidance to lodgers on living in a harmonious household:

  • Put rubbish in the bin, there are many to choose from.
  • An empty bottle does qualify as rubbish so it should not be put back in the fridge.
  • Neither the windowsill, nor the draining-board qualifies as a bin.
  • It is not necessary to wash rubbish before throwing it away.
  • If you do have time to do that, then you have enough spare time in your life to get a job. (see below#)
  • Never put a chicken carcass in the garden waste recycling bin.
  • The breadbin is for bread, not carrots, nor is it for tomatoes, just bread.
  • When you let yourself in the house, take your key out of the lock and keep it with you.
  • Used  nicotine chewing gum must not be stored on the wall-tiles in the Bathroom.
  • It it not necessary to spend 40′ in the shower each day. Nobody is that dirty, especially someone without a job.
  • When you fill the washing machine, follow the process through by actually switching the machine on.
  • After it has eventually washed, take out the laundry to dry. Certainly do this in less than 3 days.   This ensures that the clothing does not go rancid and requires another wash. It should be possible for the whole process to take less than a week. Remember- you are not the only person who may want to use this facility.

Further solutions to problems:

  • If you were able get up in the morning, it would become possible to hold down a job.
  • You may be able to get a job if you were to actually apply for one.
  • If this is all followed up, then you’d be able to pay your own rent.
  • Your mother did not work hard for decades, paying in to her pension scheme only to use it to pay your rent.
  • Rent should be paid on rent-day. If unpaid after 2 weeks, you will incur an 8% interest rate on it.

Wed.

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22°C, Sunny bits, Cycle: 77 miles

Good cycle ride: getting home was hard work but I put that down to a poor evening meal the night before.
Good night out: I think I hate weddings more than I hate Christmas.tModern British weddings seem to be orchestrated for the wedding photographer and everything revolves around him. Call me old fashioned, but this feels wrong to me. The whole occasion is turned into a decadent consumerist event. The average British wedding costs as much as a new car, or the deposit on a first time buyer’s house.
Best thing about it was wandering the grounds and appreciating the bats’ efforts to catch moths. The worst thing was, by far, the DJ.

(Un)professionals

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2°C, dangerous ice this morning, snow at work.

The hard winter drags on. The incompetence of professionals is a real problem right now. My solicitor is a liar, the other’s can’t spell. Enact had the gall to blame a hold on my mortgage transfer on me cancelling the transaction. Liars!
Further; the Inland Revenue have sent me a tax code for a job I have never had with Staffordshire Education Authority. They have installed a new computer data handling system, but are relying on us to get their raw data correct. They have the correct facts already so why foist the problem upon us? With numbers of inept ‘professionals’, this nation deserves to be bankrupt.

 /Rant.

Nearly Over

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12°C, dry, some sun

Catkins: Willow I suspect.

Winter is just about over.
News Rant: A chocolate tax, phew it was voted out in Scotland. The News is a crazy place, stories of mad-men, idiots and destruction. Maybe I should ignore it.
New CD: Johnny Cash- Solitary Man

Danger: roadside flowers

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3-11°C, light SW wind, dry.

The flowers are going to kill you: BBC news.
They are to be banned because of some Health&Safety "issue". Issue means "problem" these days. What has not so far been made clear is what the mechanism is that links the presence of flowers by the roadside and a danger to passing traffic. If Memorial flowers are a risk to drivers somehow, are the flowers on roundabouts also a risk? Are flowers somehow drawing drivers from a safe path with their delicate colours and alluring scent? Some kind of modern landlocked Siren?
And a concern for me- are they some threat to me as a cyclist? There are too many unanswered questions- including – is local government having trouble attracting the brightest minds from our growing pool of graduates?
Sinead O’Connor:CD- The Lion And The Cobra (remember her?). Bought for iPod for £2.00 from Amazon, why bother with iTunes?

Lena delta for FSX

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8°C, clear but windy

Worst time for a ride to work today: 48 mins. Headwind all the way is my excuse: the ride home was fun.

Using Google Earth to add in a missing river delta into FSX. This picture shows some of the braided rivers to the north west. I may have to remove the kettle-holes in FSX and add them back in manually because of some odd conflicts with my rivers. It looks alright so far.
Teenagers: you can now start some schools at the end of the morning. It’s not that the world revolves around you or anything, but since you need 9 hours sleep and we like to pander to your every desire; we are going to open schools as the morning is finishing.
Go to bed earlier? Yeah, lights out at like 10pm, as if? Oh, don’t trouble yourself…
…we’ll shift the whole world to suit you instead.
We don’t mind waiting for 3 or 4 hours during the best time of the day in a quiet deep enough to be at peace with our thoughts. All that shouting you like to do  can start later.