Thursday 17th February 2011

Good evening.

As I looked up at the night sky last night, I was surprised to see that the moon was once again almost full. Which means that some two weeks has passed since I looked up at it last and it was just a sliver. I say this to make the point at how time flies; tempus fugit I believe is the phrase on the street these days.

Or not.

Already it is the 17th of the month, the second month of the year; is this what happens, the days of our lives just slip by, like grains of sand through our fingers?

Each morning I wake up to the sound of business news on Radio 5, and every day it is full of grim economic news for the average person, but huge bonuses for bankers, and trying to justify both. I don’t know; can’t we just have our money back? Wages are going down but prices are going up, and clearly at some point things will reach a breaking point. And the latest news is our caring sharing coalition government is trying to get hundreds of thousands off sickness benefit and back into work, just as the economy contracts and there are less and less jobs. How, exactly, is that going to work?

So, back to this weeks events; not much of any importance has happened; I go to work, and write procedures and mails and flow diagrams and hope that they have some effect. And then come home, pick up Jools, cook dinner and then relax for a couple of hours before its bedtime and then get up and do it all again. And so the days, weeks and months pass. On a plus point, I don’t feel the executioner’s axe over my head quite so much these days, but there is a warning that he is still out there and that no one can be sure they are safe.

Oh great.

So, lets make the most of things and do stuff at the weekend. We are planning either to go to Bluewater or Lakeside this weekend. We are planning it like a military operation; get up early, leave early, be there when the doors open, do our stuff and get out before the crowds arrive. And then do other stuff, like visit a castle of garden and take pictures. But the weather may have a say on what we do after the shopping as heavy rain is forecasted; so we shall see.

And then on Sunday, we are cashing in our free meal vouchers which we won the other week at the quiz, and go for a Sunday carvery with the family at the Harbour Board.

And this news just in: Brewery tour! Yes, why not spend the afternoon walking round the oldest brewery in the country, sampling their wares and the such? I could not think of a reason not to, and we’re off to Faversham on Saturday afternoon.