Mornings
I have to have a blood test tomorrow - at 9am. Since it is a fortnight since I have been out of bed and up by 9am this is entertaining. I'm assuming I'm not meant to have eaten or drunk for 12 hours before, but naturally no one said anything.
I also have to be up by 9am on Saturday for a northern odyssey, with the complication of a house guest Friday night rather than the anticpated Thursday night. The good news is at least I have Thursday to write two lectures. And to ponder whether to buy that Laurel & Hardy boxset with is about 1/4 RRP (£49 in Zavvis, £50 in HMV, released at £200 - not cheaper online).
Some of the lines in the Doctor Who Special (they'll go for the song and dance routine one of these days - and did we need the queen, especially given the opinions of her great-whatever-grandmother on him?) about Earth Christmas customs made me rather misread the headline:
Turkey attacks Kurdish bases in Iraq
especially as I'd just read the headline
Escaped zoo tiger kills man
and was already thinking of animal attacks. I note on the BBC News that the reporter was in New York, which seems rather sensible if a tiger is on the loose in San Francisco. Although perhaps a little over cautious. And did they really tell you to look away from the football scores which they then read out? Or were you meant to hit the mute button?
I also have to be up by 9am on Saturday for a northern odyssey, with the complication of a house guest Friday night rather than the anticpated Thursday night. The good news is at least I have Thursday to write two lectures. And to ponder whether to buy that Laurel & Hardy boxset with is about 1/4 RRP (£49 in Zavvis, £50 in HMV, released at £200 - not cheaper online).
Some of the lines in the Doctor Who Special (they'll go for the song and dance routine one of these days - and did we need the queen, especially given the opinions of her great-whatever-grandmother on him?) about Earth Christmas customs made me rather misread the headline:
Turkey attacks Kurdish bases in Iraq
especially as I'd just read the headline
Escaped zoo tiger kills man
and was already thinking of animal attacks. I note on the BBC News that the reporter was in New York, which seems rather sensible if a tiger is on the loose in San Francisco. Although perhaps a little over cautious. And did they really tell you to look away from the football scores which they then read out? Or were you meant to hit the mute button?