Tuesday 22nd October 2024

After the excitement of last week; travelling to Ireland, three different hotels, meeting people and so on, it was inevitable that this week would be dull in comparison.

Already on the second day working from home, there isn't much to tell other than I said on Monday. Or any other Monday.

Tuesday was going to be sunnier, warmer and so I should have gone for a walk. But the short afternoons, and which will be an hour shorter next week, meant I did not go out.

Scully and I did did sit outside for nearly an hour, on and off through the day. Her demanding to be stroked and me watching the birds and insects coming and going, and way above, jets soaring high in the sky, heading destination way beyond western Europe.

I have meetings, doubly so I have no manager now, and so several points in the day I had to be careful not to tell people how stupid they were sounding.

There is a comet to see this month, but it has been mainly a southern hemisphere event, but now it had reached as near to the sun as it will for 80,000 years, its an early evening object until it disappears under the horizon. Each day it gets dimmer, and already is lost to eyesight. What with work and weather, I have not gone to look for it.

While we go about our daily grind, the cosmic dance carries on whether we look at it or not.

Bubble for lunch again, as the day stretches into the afternoon, and then logging off and returning the living room to a place in our home, rather than an office.

I prepare dinner, so that it will be ready when Jools comes home, now just as dusk is falling. In a week, it will be dark.

There is football to watch and listen to. By the time I put Norwich on the tellybox, they were 2-0 down after just 12 minutes, but they fought back to draw 2-2.

Meanwhile Arsenal struggle to win in Europe.

I open the Irish whisky, and life isn't too bad, you know.