08:00 Another early start for Lois and me, because Ian the Window-cleaner is coming at 9 a.m. and we don't want him to catch us in bed or in the shower. It's slightly annoying that he always starts with our bedroom window, and 2nd up on his list is always the bathroom window right next to the shower cabinet.
What madness !!!!
a typical window-cleaner cleaning a bedroom window
(not Ian)
Of course we wash the cup carefully after he finishes, but nonetheless it's a sign of progress isn't it, which is nice.
10:00 I complete 2 tasks of routine household maintenance this morning, which is about 2 more than my average score:
(1) I start moving clutter out of our living-room and dumping it on my so-called "desk" in my so-called "home office" in a section of the dining-room - Ross, the carpet-cleaner is coming on Thursday morning to clean the living-room carpet, so we want to make things as uncluttered and easy for him as possible.
flashback to Tuesday last week: my desk in happier times,
newly tidied and not yet re-cluttered with junk from the living-room
(2) I put some WD40 lubricant on the handle of our "up-and-over" garage door. It's been a hell of a job trying to open the garage up recently, and I have to use all my strength to turn the handle.
the door-handle to our "up and over" garage door
Our "fuse-box" and electrical trip switches are all in the garage. If the door-handle ever got so bad that I couldn't turn it and get the garage open, it would be total disaster in the event of a power cut or if the "trip switch" got "tripped". We would be totally without power. Yikes !!!!
11:30 We go out for our usual walk on the local football field. It feels really damp - mist is obscuring Cleeve Hill and it's damp. We take my old green plastic mac to spread out on the so-called "Pirie Bench", named after a locally famous Parish Councillor, so we can drink our coffee in our e-mugs, and eat a couple of fingers of Kit-Kat chocolate. without feeling damp in the seat of our emotions haha!
Sarah took them from their home in Tapping to the local library in Perth's northern suburb of Joondalup earlier today, like she did last Monday. The twins are voracious readers, which is nice to know.
Perhaps the most heart-warming scenes in the episode take place between weepy receptionist Carole, and mangy, pockmarked Deputy Manager Colin.
Carole and Colin seem made for each other - both are rather lonely figures. So in a way it's a bit of a disappointment when Carole, like most of the other staff involved in the compulsory urine tests, finds out that she's not really pregnant after all.
our 8-year-old granddaughters, Lily (left) and Jessie,
posing in the Library's Christmas display
- how cute they are!
16:00 Lois and I have a cup of tea and a currant bun each on the sofa. Lois looks at her smartphone and she sees that Andy, the chief elder of her sect's local church community, caught COVID at the weekend while staying in a self-catering cottage in Cornwall, and he and Angie have had to return home to Worcestershire today. Oh dear - we're not out of the woods with the pandemic yet, that's for sure!
19:30 Lois disappears into the dining-room to take part in her sect's weekly Bible Seminar on zoom.
I settle down on the couch and watch an old episode of the 1990's sitcom, "The Brittas Empire", a series which revolves around Whitbury Newtown Sports and Leisure Centre, and its well-meaning but unpopular manager, Gordon Brittas.
Synopsis of episode: Confusion plagues the centre when Brittas claims that 'scientific records' prove that 17 staff are pregnant, including a woman who has had a hysterectomy, three women who are in their 70's and also gay pool attendant Tim. Weepy receptionist Carole thinks she is pregnant by deputy manager Colin, who suffers from multiple skin complaints, and so plans are made for them to marry.
Quite a confusing episode to sort out. It seems unlikely, but the Leisure Centre's compulsory monthly urine tests for staff suggest that virtually everybody working at the centre is pregnant, including some women now in their 70's, a woman who's had a hysterectomy, and also gay pool attendant Tim.
Perhaps the most unlikely of these apparent pregnancies is that of gay pool attendant Tim. Manager Gordon Brittas becomes suspicious about the test results for Tim, and comes to the conclusion that Tim must be a woman. However, Gordon's attempt to get Tim to take his trousers down for a physical examination backfires when Tim's partner, temporary trainee-manager Gavin, bursts in and punches Brittas on the nose.
Manager Gordon Brittas tries to find out whether gay pool attendant
Tim is a man or a woman, after Tim's urine test results show him to be pregnant
Gordon's "examination" of Tim is foiled, however, when Tim's partner,
temporary trainee-manager Gavin, punches Gordon on the nose.
When Carole's urine tests come back with a positive pregnancy result, she assumes that Colin must be the father - Carole isn't aware that anything happened between them, but the two were staying together in Colin's house at the relevant time, and both Carole and Colin were mostly unconscious the whole time, due to poisonous fumes coming from toxic waste reserves buried underneath Colin's house.
Some touching scenes unfold tonight, as the two make their plans to get married, and Colin demonstrates to Carole his ideas for a steam-powered baby-rocker. Colin uses a life-size baby doll in his demonstration, but unfortunately Colin's device picks up too much speed and eventually fires the baby into the air, where it lodges between two heating pipes.
The only person really pregnant is Gordon Brittas's bolshie secretary Julie. She was supposed to deliver the urine samples to the testing lab, but poured them all down the drain in error. To cover up her mistake she refilled all the sample tubes herself, after a drink-fuelled "liquid lunch" at the pub, where she had drunk several pints of beer.
So of course the only person who's really pregnant turns out to be Julie herself.
What a crazy world we live in !
21:00 Lois emerges from her zoom session and we watch one of our favourite TV quizzes, Only Connect, which tests lateral thinking.
"Good evening. One of the great clue-solvers in literature is, of course, the detective Sherlock Holmes. Many people remember the great crimes he solved. Fewer people credit the emotional weight of the stories.
"I remember "A Case of Identity", where Miss Mary Sutherland goes to Baker Street looking for help finding her beau, Mr Angel, who's gone missing. She becomes distraught, and, according to Conan Doyle, pulls a little handkerchief out of her muff.
"Which means there's a show I saw in Vegas a few years ago that wasn't quite as original as I thought."
Oh dear! Really, Victoria ????!!!
One of our favourite questions tonight is when contestants are asked to find the connection between these four things.
See? Geddit? Simples haha !!!!!
Tremendous fun !!!!!
22:00 We go to bed - zzzzzzzzz!!!!!
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