h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

More avoidance.

I went in to town. I went to the big book-sale and bought some Le Carre hardbacks. I met a friend for lunch. She paid. She is unhappy in her job and wanted to talk to someone about it. Apparently my experience &c makes me a good sounding-board (Susan might be surprised to hear this statement). She outlined her problem and her strategy for dealing with it. I drew her attention to something I had recently read about which might present her with a suitable opportunity, and she said that she had read the same news and had acted on it - i.e. we were singing from the same Ikea assembly instruction sheet.

She gave me a stern talking-to anent my Speccie subscription - "the Spectator is worse than the Daily Mail. Educated right-wing bigotry is less forgiveable than ignorant right-wing bigotry." She also chided me (chode?) for not voting, as "it is a duty, even if there is no-one you would wish to vote for."

Give her ten years. She'll have a house in the country. She'll have an Aga. An estate car. She already reads the Mail, but balances it out with the Express.

Anyhow, I had a burger and cawffee & coconut slice and she picked up the tab - I can stand a bit of abuse.

I bought some white wine and some mange-tout, and caught the bus back home.

Susan is doing some veg box deliveries. She will be home at the back of 7.

Another bonny hot sunny day.

We had live mousie on the stairs this morning, which I trapped in an empty apple juice bottle and set released in a miah-free environment.

Bairnies are playing out backie.

My immediate 'next year and a bit' future will be determined at a meeting tomorrow between the head of school and a VP.

Asparagus and feta cheese quiche for tea, with mange-tout. Tonight's viewing will be... I dunno.

Ane S Moffatt, esq. has been tearing a strip offa the fans who attended the NY preview showing of eppys 1 & 2 of the new season, having pledged themselves to keeping schtum, then posted a full summary of the shows "in badly-written English" on the internet, thereby destroying the magic and the surprise for the rest of the planet. Hmmmm... he may have a point, but having seen the eppys (and last weekend's pirates eppy), it strikes me that the magic might be better preserved by reading the summary and not watching the show. Just a thought. The pictures in one's head &c &c, particularly when the pictures on the screen feature the pallid gurning flop-locked anti-Tennant. I had an idea once - take all of the one-sentence The Archers teaser quotes in the Radio Times, and the weekly cast-lists and Soap & Flannel-type teasers, and construct from them an alternative storyline and continuity, completely divorced from the programme as broadcast, with no retrospective revisionism. It'd be an interesting experiment.


Douglas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-13362676

I used to work with her in Shelter. She was aa richt, ken? A good choice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13334498

I used to work with her in Shelter, and I'm not going to say any more than that.

I also worked with (under) Sheila McKechnie in Shelter, who had a ver' good PR front. Secular saint, she became.

All these strong women. And at home, I've got Miah.


Douglas