I felt rather grotty last
night, and so had an early night. I think that might have been a
mistake; I slept very badly, seeing every hour of the night.
I gave up trying to sleep
at seven o'clock, and ate half of my morning's toast; my dog having
the other half. As we scoffed I watched an episode of Family Guy.
Some of those episodes are rather saucy. Lois had her kit off. I was
shocked (!)
I left for work a little
earlier than I might normally have done. I needed to obtain a spring
clip for geocachical purposes. B&Q were selling four for £5.25.
I thought that was rather expensive and told them so. Homebase in
Canterbury had the same thing for £1.79. Admittedly Homebase didn't
have quite as fancy packaging on theirs, but packaging is just going
in the bin anyway.
The icing on the cake
for me was that they had a split pack on the shelf. I only wanted one
clip, and they had an odd one for sale for 50p. Result.
As I drove I listened to
the radio. The pundits were talking about the life sentences given by
courts to murderers. Should a life sentence mean the murderer
spends their entire life in jail? It is so easy to make blithe
pronouncements from one's ivory tower. Murder is a terrible thing.
Premeditated multiple murder done in a rather sadistic way is one
thing. Two drunken lads having a girlie-slapping squabble and then
one slipping on a discarded kebab, cracking his head on a kerb stone
and dying is quite another. But both are to be treated the same - as
"murder".
How can there be justice
when laws are absolute?
Being Friday the radio
also had "Desert Island Discs". Today the Queen's
chaplain got to choose her favourite eight records. Because I needed
to get to work I only heard half of the show; but that was enough for
me to realise that I wouldn't want to be stuck on a Desert Island
with her.
Some people have a
terrible taste in music.
And much as I might
whinge about the news, I am grateful that censorship in our news
isn't quite as
blatant as it is in Malaysia. The poor pigs are covered up for
fear of offending religious sensibilities.
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