Mystic Pizza Delivery

Because we are cash poor and also time poor we get our shopping delivered from Tesco. Each week on Friday a little van tuns up with all our vittals for the week. Except that this time the frozen stuff didn't arrive. I rang the support number and, while I waited, they rang the van and found out what had happened. Apparently their had been a "complete Horlicks" ((c) HM Government) at the store and no frozen stuff made it out onto the road.

Around an hour later a chap arrived with nearly all the stuff and, if I'd played my cards right I could have ended up with a bonus pack of Bernard Matthews Turkey Drummers. But, for some reason, I didn't.

Open Day Blues

Had our first Admissions Open Day today. Went OK but I made the mistake of using the wrong slide deck. It was very slightly out of date. I don't think anybody spotted the pictures of Model T Fords and computers full of valves. At least I hope not.

But seriously folks, thanks for coming and I hope you enjoyed the visit. And a special surprise prize for an attendee who lets me know the subject of "the joke that dare not be told..."

Thwarted by the Upper House

I think that I am being victimised by a Lord. Sometimes when I try to use the internet I get the message "..connection reset by peer".

Dragons' Den

They had this program on the telly tonight called "Dragons' Den" or somesuch. A bunch of steely eyed entrepreneurs get given the chance to be rude about pitches from people who want backing for an idea or product. Most interesting. The thing that struck me was that the people presenting didn't seem to be that good at sounding keen. Maybe it is the british reserve coming to the fore hear, but hardly any of them really sounded impressed by their own stuff. Maybe they were distracted by the big piles of money all round the room. I think my pitch would along the lines of "I'm thinking of beginning a lucrative career in theft, starting now". Then I'd grab one of the bundles of cash and make a run for it.

ToDo To Do

Spent today doing stuff. First thing I added a bunch of things to my task list and then over the day I knocked them off one by one. And they were proper tasks too, not "have lunch" or "go to the toilet".