09:00 Lois and I speak on the phone with Alison, our daughter in
Haslemere, Surrey, and with her son Isaac, who celebrated his 10th
birthday yesterday. Alison and Ed have 3 children: Josie (13), Rosalind (12)
and Isaac (now 10), and their lives are incredibly busy and eventful, even
during lockdown: any exchange of news
between us and Alison is 99% one-way, i.e. from her to us – oh dear!!!
Conversations
often go better if both ends are leading equally uneventful or equally exciting lives
as the case may be. We were reminded of the two men on that air flight to
Kansas City that sparked headlines around the world. Source: Onion News:
According to sources currently seated in
rows 14 through 18 aboard flight 763, two middle-aged men with incredibly
boring jobs are really hitting it off during the three-hour trip to Kansas
City.
Using terms like “white-labeling” and “core
clients,” the slightly overweight, average-looking men are reportedly engaged
in a detailed discussion about overwhelmingly unexciting work-related topics
and, sources said, seem to be getting along great.
“They got to talking as soon as we boarded,
and you could tell they just clicked right away,” said 31-year-old Nikki
Bertrand of 16B, adding that one of the men, upon looking up from his sales
trade magazine, immediately recognized the company logo on the polo shirt of
the man sitting down in the next seat. “Since then, they’ve been going on and
on about cold calls, prospecting, annual contract values, and renewal quotas.”
“I mean, just listen to them,” Bertrand
continued. “You’d think they were old pals. But they just met and just happen
to both have the most unbearably mind-numbing careers you could possibly
imagine.”
That story certainly sparked a lot of interest, I remember, and people were
talking about it for a long time afterwards, that’s for sure!
Isaac is a big soccer fan. He’s currently hoping that Chelsea beat Arsenal in the FA Cup, because apparently that will be good news for Tottenham, the club he supports, because it will make much easier Tottenham’s participation in the next round of European tournaments: all this goes over mine and Lois’s head – we don’t know anything about soccer. Oh dear (again) !!!!!
We gave Isaac a soccer computer game, PES2020, for his birthday
yesterday. Because I imagine it could be a good topic to bring up, I ask him in
exactly what way PES2020 differs from the other soccer computer game Isaac has,
FIFA2020. A good question, he confirms, but unfortunately I don’t understand
his answer. Oh dear (again) !!!!!
15:00
After the afternoon nap we drive the car out to Cleeve Hill Golf Club to give
the car battery a bit of charge and also check it out as a place we could take
Alison and family on Sunday. They are bringing Sika, their Danish spaniel, and
it’s a great place to walk dogs over the tops of the hill around there, with
gorgeous views over the Vale of Evesham.
Cleeve Hill Golf Club
Lois
and I are cat-people rather than dog-people, but both our daughters have
married dog-lovers. I try to ignore Sika when we’re with Alison’s family, and I
find he has learnt to ignore me and not expect me to do fun things with him,
which is a relief, to put it mildly!
Now
that Sika has unfortunately been diagnosed with arthritis, I feel more of a
connection with him, as I suffer from it myself. Perhaps we could bond,
finally, around our affliction – I’m not sure. The jury is still out on that
one.
Perhaps
if Ed throws a few balls for Sika to chase, maybe Ed could throw a few balls
for me to run after – I certainly could do with the exercise! But we’ll see.
a very wet Sika, pictured yesterday on the beach near West Wittering, Sussex
20:00 We spend the evening watching a bit of TV: the third part of an entertaining series looking back at the TV work of comedienne Victoria Wood.
An
amusing episode, which sends us laughing all the way to bed. A favourite of ours
is the marriage bureau sketch from 1986, “Mr Right”, with Victoria and Anne
Reid.
22:00
We go to bed – zzzzzzz!!!!!
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