Sorry, in a repeat of so many nights, it drew close to midnight, I fell asleep in my chair, woke two hours later and went to bed. I’m trying to make my habits more regular and starting to blog at 2am would have woken me up and made it difficult to sleep. The answer to that is to start writing earlier in the evening.
The day started with a pleasant surprise. A customer who had been refunded after his parcel got stuck in the surreal nightmare that is the Italian Customs service wrote to say that he had now received his parcel and would like to pay for it. This is honesty of a very high order compared to some of the things people have done to us and started the day off well.
This moved on to viewing a panda with hiccoughs. It features a glum-looking panda with hiccoughs, in case you don’t want to bother with the link. naturally this led to a discussion the correct way to spell hiccoughs (or “do you mean hiccups?” as the internet puts it). And from there we went to animals yawning. This is actually quite an interesting subject. However, we are there to work and after establishing that budgerigars yawn we were soon back to adding items to eBay. You may sometimes wonder what we all day, but after reading the article on yawning budgies, you have to wonder about life as a top-level university academic.
That’s about it, 250 words to catch up with yesterday’s missing blog post and the intellectual pinnacle was a discussion on animals and their various foibles. It makes you wonder why we bothered inventing the internet doesn’t it?
Header picture is a squirrel. It does not have hiccoughs and isn’t yawning, but it’s the best I could do.
That honest customer is a bright spot!
I think that posts on the spelling of hiccoughs fully justify the invention of the internet.
And posts on yawning budgies . . .
It is good to know that you have responsible customers. Hickups surely.
It works – people spend far too much time on spelling things right in my opinion. If it sounds right I am happy with it, just object to having my spelling criticised by a machine. 🙂
Quite so – especially when the machine gets it wrong.
I hate it when that happens, though even worse when I had to correct the way a teacher spelt words on spelling test lists for the kids. Twice.
Dispiriting
It is when you consider they are highly qualified professionals with the future of the nation in their hands. 🙂
Great story about that customer who received his package after being refunded and wanted to pay.
It’s nice to know there are still decent people about. It’s the others that tend to be noticed more . . .
Alas
🙂