Thursday 23rd June 2011

And so, back to reality.

Back home Saturday evening, dirty clothes in the washer, clean clothes away, and a chance to tidy the house up before the cats were collected on Sunday morning.

And Sunday, Jools went to pick up the cats, and for the rest of the day we had very clingy cats following us around. Apart from the cats, tidying up, washing and ironing, all we did was to visit Jools Dad. We spent the afternoon chatting and with one eye on the weather as we had washing out and rain was forecast. And as is usual, the rain came a couple of hours early, and despite a swift exit and a dash home, all washing was wet through by the time we got home.

But by nine, all work was done, and we sat down to get our weekly fix of Jason Isaacs in his BBC drama series, which sadly ended this week.

And so, with astonishing speed, Monday morning rolled round, and we climbed out of bed and got ourselves ready for work and prepared to get back to the grindstone. The fear is going back to work and having hundreds of mails and tasks to do, but we both had quite manageable work waiting for us, and so we had a fairly peaceful day.



Yesterday was the 21st, the longest day, and we actually had a day without rain, and once back from work, I was able to mow the lawn, and rather wonderful it looks too. Jools went out to re-start her yoga classes, and so we had a late dinner of a Chinese takeaway and a pint of beer for me.

In the news, Wimbledon has started with a certain A. Murray carrying the hopes of the middle classes that someone from Albion might actually win the men’s title. I used to like the event, but to be honest, I can’t be arsed with it. All TV and radio seems to have been suspended for the whole two weeks, which other not getting regular news updates on Radio 5, affects us little. Last Friday, the football fixtures for this season were published, and now that we can see Norwich’s games, we really feel like we are Premier League now. The club’s news on the BBC is now on the PL page. Lets just hope we can win enough games to stay there now.



In economic news, Greece is needing another €110bn loan to meet their outgoings for the year, and in return must cut more spending, raise more taxes, and even then the still might default as they are nowhere near being able to meet the interest repayments on their debts, let alone start paying the debts themselves off. The upshot might well be that if Greece defaults, it could bring a run on the Euro, the stupid banks that lent all the money to Greece not getting their money back, and the taxpayers in the countries where the banks are based, picking up yet another huge bill. Will we ever learn?

Apparently not.