Week 112
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Some things I saw last week which I canāt believe I didnāt mention here:
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A seal bobbing about in the river, which would have been a surprise if Iād not previously read some articles in the local press about the seal.
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Some dudes with a modified Audi they were photographing with a big camera. Theyād detached the front numberplate, to make it more photogenic. The car has its own Instagram account, with more followers than most people I know. I thought Iād be angry at their blocking a pedestrianised area, and the āperformance exhaustā system making a terrible offensive racket, but I suppose itās a mostly harmless hobby.
Well, it was nice to see a celebrity sea mammal, and a celebrity hatchback, which both happened to be grey.
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It was my birthday. A man came to replace the water heater timer which with a new, dramatically less charred one. I went to Lowestoft ā my first time in a different county for more than a year ā where I walked north until I could walk no more, and then returned home.
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The alarm clock mentioned last week arrived. Itās fine, but there was a hair beneath the transparent cover ā yuck. Luckily, Iād also just bought a squeegee, which came with a suction cup for attaching the squeegee to a wall. So I could use the suction cup to remove the transparent cover, and dislodge the hair. What luck! Although it would have been luckier to get a clock without a hair.
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I also bought a new Chemex coffee maker, to replace the one I smashed into a thousand pieces a few months ago, because although Iāve a better way of making coffee, I wanted to use up the remaining ā boxful of paper filters. Maybe producing a whole new glass thing is more wasteful than discarding some bits of paper, but my feelings donāt care about your facts.
I deliberately got a bigger Chemex this time ⦠forgetting that the bigger one requires bigger filters. And it turns out thereās a shortage of Chemex paper filters.
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Voted, using a Noris Triplus pencil. As far as I can tell, this electoral ward is now entirely represented by Green councillors ⦠and thatās what I voted for, slightly spur-of-the-momently. Some prominent folks in that party are posh idiots incorrectly opposed to electric railways and stuff, but thatās neither relevant nor as bad as the alternative.
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To the hospital, for a somewhere-between-annual-and-biennial thing involving having jelly rubbed on my chest, which perhaps eels and certain kinds of pervert enjoy.
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Second jabbed. No side-effects, apart from being wet cos it was raining heavily, and all the oil washed off the chain of my bike on the way to and from the medical practice.