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Ha ha. That’s exactly what I was going to type!

I am having a bit of an Arthur Dent sort of day..

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Don’t expect Wiggle to push them for it. They will just send another parcel out. Hermes claimed they had delivered one for me and when I sent the photo evidence that they had lied about where it was left (and consequently nicked from my doorstep) Wiggle accepted their excuse that it had been ‘lost in transit’.

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Did it once, never again. 10 x more effort than using the kitchen for the joy of standing in the sun and ending up more cooked than the food.

When you get badly lost on the way to Glasto’ and enter a pub full of local real ale drinkers.

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Nigel Dean touring frame repurposed as a light trail bike

And that ‘Entitlement’ is an attitude that goes back as least as far as Sandhurst, from what I have heard.

Human beings, giraffes and blue whales all have the same number of neck bones.

I just kept thinking about the thrilling time he must have had dismantling that lot and putting it all back in its categorised compartments.

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Why is it that whenever you drop something small, it always rolls away and comes to rest so it is hidden from view? Quite often these things are a totally un-rolly shape too. You could be stood at the back of a newly swept, empty, flood-lit garage and that errant 5mm bottle cage bolt will prescribe an invisible trajectory that no degree of speculation or algorithm could ever predict and come to rest under the single dried-up leaf that has just blown under the door 20ft behind you.

I see no guilt there.

I’m cool with that. Thought I’d clarify though. Hopefully none of us will ever get so old as to be familiar with that style of shopping.

Don’t be so hard on yourself. I think the government has secretly turned up the gravity to encourage people to stay indoors during lockdown.

Marks and Spencer.

Advertisers and corporations spoon-feeding tripe to the populous.
You go through life taking this all in. Year by year their attempts to grab your attention get more and more extreme and perverse. Then one day your cerebral cortex goes all immune systemy and you just say f**k off. You sell your telly, put Adblock on your device, ban newspapers from your house, move to the country, only listen to Radio 3 & 4 (yes, it’s got that bad).
Life becomes peaceful and mellow. Things like Lockdown, choosing a coffee and celebs are like, meh.
Then your world is shattered. You are passed by a lorry bearing a new slogan. It’s from the place your parents shopped at when they dreamed of the staid, grey, dull lifestyle you are now living and it reads with sum total of all the marketing bullshit you read for years rolled into one sweet, wordy haymaker:
“M&S... The adventure starts here”.

That’s torque not shear.

The Liebherr crane is awesome but I am thinking it can’t be 100% Lego. The jib pivots would have to be something sturdier than plastic rods. Too much shear load going on.

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A Perfect Day (2015 release) get an 8 from me.
Not a great fan of Tim Robbins but he fits in well to this role. Del Toro steals it, as usual, but the real depth is in the character interaction, constant threat to life and black humour that infects everyone despite the impossible situations.