A journey of discovery

Had a trip to Glasgow on the back roads through the countryside this week. I was trying to get there in good time for a meeting and learned the following,

• Thursday is slow lorries day
• When you overtake the slow lorries you haven't seen the last of them
• Some farmers don't keep their cattle in the fields but let them roam along the road
• I am useless at rounding up stray cattle
• Drivers of slow lorries are even worse at rounding up stray cattle
• The farmer who owns the stray cattle has a lie in on "Slow-Lorry-Thursday"
• After waking the farmer up I was behind the slow lorries again

Family visits

Recently I went to stay with the Yorkshire-blogs. It was one of those "expected visits", by which I mean they were expecting me. I knew this because we had emailed several times to that effect and I was reassured by the replies.

However, on arriving at "Chaos Towers", (home to Eschatology-sister-blog (ESB)), I discovered, unexpectedly, that I was not expected. ESB had decided to go off with Swiss-sister-blog for a day's shopping.

Bewildered-Tom-blog and nephew-Tom-blog were in the dark. Worse still, they decided after just thirty minutes in my company, that they would much rather drive 70 miles to go and watch Incredibles 2 at a distant cinema.

I found myself on my own dog-sitting for most of the evening debating with a Tibetan Terrier which of us was to blame!

Memory test

Mrs Blog and I enjoy the odd box set. We recently settled down to watch a couple of episodes of a police drama.

"Was it on Netflix or BBC IPlayer?"

"Don't remember."

"What was it called?"

"Don't remember."

We tried looking on both under the "continue watching" section. The program...

"Unforgotten."

Hard truths

In a meeting at work in Glasgow last week I was having a discussion about personal development with a financial adviser.

"They say you should stretch yourself by doing something that scares you every day," she said.

"I scare myself just by waking up!" I replied.

"...and looking in the mirror?" she added.

I waved a flag of surrender.