Over the years the British TV industry has made a lot of great TV. So has the American TV industry. Sadly, the people who plan what programmes to play have decided not to use any of that output tonight. Julia has gone to bed, as we are up at 5.00 tomorrow morning, and after washing up, making her sandwiches and having a snack, I’m at a loose end.
I could go to bed, but if I spend too much time there my back begins to play up, so I’m resisting the idea for a few more hours. This is probably a sign that we need a new mattress. It’s also a sign that I could spend a little money and make my life more comfortable. That’s not something I’ve thought of before. It’s probably a sign of the wisdom that supposedly comes with age, but it’s been a long time coming.
I could also do some work, as I have a number of things tasks piling up, but you know how it is. Sloth and procrastination, even in the company of poor TV, are preferable to work, even if that work is only googling stuff and making lists. It’s like sugar and fat – you know lentils and carrots are better for you, put you still reach for a biscuit in preference to salad. Or is that just me?
Inanimate objects, meanwhile, continue to make my life complicated.
My shoes have decided to express solidarity with my trousers and make my life a misery. The right shoe has started leaking. I’m hopeful that if the snow goes soon I may get another nine months out of them.
The problem with shoes is that my left foot is nearly a size larger than the other. In order to achieve a decent fit I have to stretch the left shoe a little, then wear it in. Sometimes this takes several months, and can be quite uncomfortable on account of the bunion that is starting to develop. By the time I have everything as I like it the shoes start to wear out.
I’ve tried getting round it by buying bigger shoes, but it’s hard to find size 13 in the shops, and it can be difficult walking when your right foot is rattling about in a massive shoe.
As if this isn’t enough, the car warning lights have started winking at me again. The left sidelight is devoting itself to inducing an intermittent fault. I’m not even sure why I need a sidelight with all the others, but it seems important enough to warrant a warning light of its own.
This is one of the complexities of modern life. In the old days bulbs just used to blow and you replaced them at MOT time or when a policeman pulled you over.
You put a whole new light on shoe shopping – sounds like a good excuse to move to somewhere hot and sunny where all you need is flip flops lol 😊🔆🍹
It’s a tempting thought. 🙂
Oh dear! For Lent (I do it for discipline-thank heavens only once a year, I am usually very undisciplined) I gave up procrastination. It mostly works. Laughing ’cause I’m probably procrastinating doing something I should be doing besides catching up on blog posts. =)
I think you may be indulging in displacement activity, which is subtly different from procrastination. I’ll explain how tomorrow…
Laughing…am I giving you topics now for the blog or had that one been on the list.?
It’s a subject dear to my heart, and once you prompted me I couldn’t resist. 🙂
Lots of unpleasant discomfort. Have you tried High and Mighty for shoes? Only in the sales, of course. We record most of our TV watching?
Not sure we can record with this system, I’ll have to look into it. Will also look into High and Mighty, I used to shop there at one time but went over to Cotton Traders and Jacamo. My sartorial standards are not high. 🙂
Cotton Traders should certainly cater for large sizes
They started skimping on material in the trousers, at which point I was forced to look at Jacamo. I have been pleased with the change.
Not come across them. Maybe I will, but Lidl have provided a vast stock of work trousers which are dead cheap and fit superbly. They only come in periodically
That’s the problem with Lidl, but they have good stuff when it’s there. Jacamo are online so they are very easy. To be honest I haven’t bought clothes for years – Julia tends to buy them for me when I start looking like a tramp.
🙂
It’s always an adventure shopping in Aldi or Lidl. 🙂
Wow, you have a warning light for side lights! I just find out I need to change them because someone points out they’re not working.
I prefer your system. This is too complicated.
I have found that a recliner chair is good for my back.
Sounds like a fine idea. 🙂
Biscuits are always preferable to lentils. Just one of those things that gall those of us who are a little plumper than we would like to be.
🙂 I know that feeling!
I say a cheese savoury would fix everything, from shoe size to poor tv. Then again, we have been starving here with no electricity for a day and a half, although it’s back now, and no water since Thursday.
Sorry to hear that. I hope it all gets back to normal soon.
Thanks. At least it isn’t dangerously freezing now, and we have a pellet stove in this room and a radiator upstairs, so that is okay. No water still, but then again they said something like 110,000 people were without power this weekend, and they got maybe 2/3 of it fixed. It’s hard on others. I have it made, indoors and with leftover food and a bunch of bottles of fizzy water–
Always look on the bright side of life…