It’s 9pm and I am sitting down for the first time today, so this may be more of a snack than a full repast. The day started badly when I slept through three alarms on my phone. It was to be a complicated Saturday with Alison (my wife) working all day at school, son playing squash, golf and hockey away in Hastings, (thanks for the ferry service Mark), daughter “Treading the Boards” at school followed rapidly by an away hockey match in Hove ( accompanied by moi), Callie (the whippet lurcher) desperate for a frolic on the seafront (provided by obliging father immediately on return from daughter’s match in Hove), and finally umpiring duties for a now somewhat labouring old man under lights at Eastbourne Hockey Club. On conclusion of which, the now seriously knackered old man returns home to find wife son and daughter lolling in front of some “really interesting” tv programme and not remotely interested in discussing the disparate activities of the day, but merely waiting for the now seriously knackered and distinctly unamused old man to cook them supper. With unfailing good humour and considerable culinary skill he achieved this with minimal effort and even less thanks, before falling asleep in front of Michael McIntyre.
Had an interesting experience yesterday, whilst driving along the beautiful Beachy Head coast road. Spotted a car car coming towards us driven by a man with a woman (wife?) beside him. Clearly she was totally inept at practically everything because whilst He was driving, He was also filming the road ahead on his iPad. He was probably also talking on the phone while explaining to his wife how to best cook the roast, but I was too busy taking evasive action to be certain about the last two bits. As someone who never, ever, ever, (quiet Oliver) uses the phone whilst driving, how can people be SO irresponsible? Perhaps once the whole Brexit debacle is finally resolved and we are back where we started in the European Union, the European Union will come up with some suitably draconian punishment for such anti-social behaviour and we Brits will be the only people in 28 countries who actually apply the regulation to the letter of the law.
“Have the last two years been a complete waste of time?”. Discuss.
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