After a very lacklustre tour, the England cricket team managed to leave Australia with a trophy. Quite an achievement, given that it is only in the last four matches that they have shown good form. Heard one commentator (Gus Fraser, I think) praising Andrew Flintoff, as ‘the one person whose… has been constant throughout the tour.’ What a short memory! I hope the ECB have a better recall of what contributed to the disaster that was The Ashes. (Yes, I know it wasn’t all Flintoff’s fault, but the limitations of his captaincy were clearly a contributing factor.)
Discount chicken
Safety paranoia
There was a sign on a gate to a school near my home this morning stating
‘This gate is locked because of the icy conditions of the path.’
As a result, any child going to school would need to walk along the road and round to the main entrance of the school. This is a longer distance and these paths were also icy. But not the school’s responsibility. So that’s all right then. It doesn’t matter if the school increases the (albeit small) risk of a child having a serious accident on the ice, as long as the risk of the school being sued for it is reduced.
Snow!
Nice to see that, for once, a few inches of snow did not result in a massive stay-away from work. Strange that schoolteachers have a different attitude to everyone else though. In my office, people off-work because their children were at home greatly outnumbered those off-work because the snow stopped them getting in.
Too much chocolate
An all-day meeting with external visitors at work today finished early, resulting in their afternoon tea being brought out for people in the office to eat. Three chocolate croissants and four biscuits (one of which was a bourbon and one a chocolate chip) was maybe a little too much chocolate. I am definitely on a sugar high at the moment.
Political corporatism
With the local elections just three months away, I thought the main political parties’ local websites might be gearing up for the contest. Instead I find two (the blue one and the yellow one) have had a bad attack of corporate identity, primarily mirroring stuff from their national sites, and the other is, well, just awash with negativity. My local councillor’s diary is somewhat vacant (just monthly surgeries). So much for
I promised many residents that I would make public my actions and you will find above my Diary outlining my weekly activities, I will try to have this updated as often as possible but I’m only human so please do excuse if it is slightly out of date!
Could be a very quiet election.