Snow, what snow?
There was a message on the phone.
06:30-ish. Dave O'N:
“I take it the meeting's cancelled or
postponed. With all the snow. Anyway, someone's hit me up the arse,
and it's chaos, so I'm going to turn around and make for the office.”
Snow? What snow? If there's a drop of
snow south of Up North, we cop it. I phoned him back.
“I'm on the train, all going ok my
end.”
“Ok, I'll dump the car and jump on a
train. See you there.”
“Let me know if you're going to be
late.”
Then the announcements started.
Diversion. Additional stop. Broken down train. I can't have been the
only one just waiting and hoping for a mention of the wrong type of
snow.
Later I looked out of the window and it
was snowing. For about twenty minutes of the two-hour (one hour
twenty minutes as scheduled) trip it was snowing. The commuters who
slept between departure and arrival would've had a snow-free morning.
Typical spoke too soon on the
problem-free bit. Took three hours to get back.
What's the odds?
This was always a favourite at school.
After tossing six (or seven or eight or ten) heads, what's the odds
of the next one being heads too? Assuming the coin's not a cheat or
faulty or weighted or double-headed. No young kid ever says 50/50.
So, Alistair Cook has lost five on the
spin (sorry, but it had to be done), and the Test Match Special and
the Sky commentary guys must be fighting back the temptation to trot
out the 'useless tosser' jokes. Which had me wondering, whether any
captain was so hopeless at the heads or tails thing that he got a
substitute to call on his behalf. I was sad enough to google it.
There's not a definitive answer to the substitute coin toss caller
question.
The Walking Dead
Forgot this on the telly I can stand
watching list. Strong language, and blood and gore
zombie-splattering. Lots of zombie-splattering.
The decorations are up
BLISS did it. While I was at work. Came
home and the place is decorated. This is role reversal. Normally I'm
hopping from foot to foot, and she's telling me it's still November
(or October). It's only the 5th and we're lit, tree'd and
decked.
Advent calendar music
4th December: Let's get it
over with: The Pogues, Fairytale of New York. Honestly, I loved this
before it was done to death, and I still do.
5th December: Diana Krall,
Winter Wonderland. It was a Berkamp wonderland, in the good old
gooner days.
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