It feels like Monday...

[caddyman]

Poo.

Bad enough that the bank holiday weekend is over, but to have to listen to Five Years Time by Noah and the Whale¹ is just too much. Wogan should know better; he's been broadcasting long enough!

Any road up, for once, both Furtle and I feel as though we've had our money's worth out of the long weekend. I mean it would have been nice if it had been longer - who wouldn't like extra time away from work, but for some reason this weekend actually felt like a long weekend, or rather we seemed to get a lot out of it instead of just rolling in from work on Friday evening and waking up to find that it's time to go back again! All bank holiday weekends should do that, but they don't.

I have to turn my attention now to the FM radio reception in The Carpathia. Back in the Athenaeum Club, particularly in the bedroom and the Tower, FM or AM reception was awful (oddly, downstairs in the kitchen it was fine). When we moved here, it seemed to be OK, and this has led to a different distribution of radios around the place. The digital radio is in the kitchen and the FM radio alarm clock is again in service as a ...er... radio alarm and not just as a clock. The other portable tranny² is here in the computer room. The latter seems to be behaving itself, but the rubbish reception on the radio alarm has resurfaced meaning that I may have to investigate the revisit the rearrangement of radio reception around the place. There is a DAB receiver on the hifi, but I need to fiddle with the aerial and work out how to tune the brute in. Guess who has a) lost the manual and b) is in the first stages of being baffled by technology in the way that dad was after the great betamax/VHS war broke him 30 years ago. There was a time that I should have looked at it as something that would just take a little fiddling, but nowadays the fashion for as few controls as possible means that everything is multifunction and only programmable via variations in morse code entry. This is at the very limit of my ability and well past my patience threshold. I shall tune it and leave it on that station. Anyone wants Planet Rock will have to go to the kitchen.

Ho hum. Better get dressed now, I guess.



¹And shouldn't that be Jonah and the Whale?

²This is is an unabashed 1970s use of the word "tranny". See LJs passim.

Comments

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Ho hum. Better get dressed now, I guess.

This Post contained Nudity and a Tranny!?!

You could have warned us at the outset sir !!!!!!!

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

I hate that song too.

By the way I know why it is Noah and the Whale but the story is dull so I won't trouble you with it.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

It might be in the file of operating manuals and instructions! Can't remember if you kept it or not though.

It's all very bewildering!

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

Here in Newport if you refer to the Tranny people assume you are talking about our bridge. One of only eight left in the world and the council are baulking at fixing it after their poor maintenance has caused it to be shut down.