DIEM HORRIBILIS (13/07/11)

Now I know a day cannot compete with a year, our Queen famously remarked that she had experienced an annus horribilis. So have I on occasion……..usually the morning after a good curry!

The dogs and I were out early for our constitutional wander. A dull cool day, nothing of interest noticed. The sparrows are still demolishing the feeders.

I have spent all morning arranging camper insurance…………..I thought I could do it on-line and did start out that way. It takes me ages to fill out the forms, then hunt for all the little red stars……..apparently the box marked [SEX?] was not soliciting the answer………….Very Occasionally. I did think it an odd question. I couldn’t see that any insurance company would be underwriting the risks entailed by my indulging in a carnal activity in a moving vehicle.  (Perhaps I’ve just not lived!) We are not even allowed to talk on the phone and drive in this country. I digress…………..having eventually managed to send an acceptably completed form away into cyber space……I then waited with anticipation for rock bottom quotes to flood my in box. Excitement is definitely lacking in my life.

I waited…. and waited some more and then five hours later my phone rang……………..I had to go through the self same information verbally………….good job I didn’t tell fibs! The memory is not what it was! Then the phone rang again………….MY!………I am popular today. Same rigmarole. I listened to two calls and got two quotations. Saved three hundred pounds in five hours so the most money I’ve ever earned in ages. I’m still not covered for fornicating in a moving vehicle on the public highway……….One can’t win them all.

Tomorrow we move back north for MOT, dog food, bird food, Adrian food and a new tyre. maybe a couple of springs and shock absorbers……Oh Hum! Better than Annus Horribilis though.

Here are a couple from the last few days…………………………….

Megaliths……..if this doesn’t look spooky then tilt your screen and it will go lighter or darker………….the latter is the effect I was after.

   When I shot this a couple of days or so ago I meant to tag it with juvenile Blue Tit or juvenile Great Tit it is one or the other………it’s also a silhouette at dawn

I may be missing for a couple of days………..no problem. You all have a good time while I sort out the annual paper work and bureaucracy. It’s in bold because it took me five goes to spell it. It is a reely dificult wurd. Thank god that Mesipotamiya is now called Libya at leest I hope it is.