Friday has arrived at last, and as I've been infected with Swine Flu I'm glad today is the last working day of the week.
Obviously, I don't have Swine Flu. I have a cold, but with the media yet again whipping the country into a unnecessary panic with sensationalised headlines and manipulative statistics we all think that our latest sniffle will kill us. Then again, if they didn't then they wouldn't increase their numbers, sell pharmaceutical companies drugs (who advertise in their newspapers/TV stations/etc) or feed the worlds biggest cash cow - the World Health Organisation.
Anyway - as long as you're still able to read and haven't been rendered blind by this "pandemic" (yeah right) - I'm not the only one in our household to be a little snotty just now, Luca's coughing last night sounded very familiar to my 1992 - 2008 20-a-day smoking habit. Rough and rasp, though he seems perfectly well within himself. He's actually been very affectionate lately, although when I called home last night while waiting for a bus (yep, still no car) Carole had that "serial killer stuck in a lift with an ageing and flatulent cow" tone of voice which suggested - nay insisted - that I wasn't indeed his father, but that she'd had relations with Lucifer himself to produce such a monster.
Which brings me onto another matter - "Spawn". As in "Spawn of the Devil" would have been a terrific name for Sima had I thought of it at the time.
Which - of course coincidentally - leads us onto the subject of the little chubby Jack Russell. Sima has proven an unpopular housemate this week, having chewed through TWO telephone cables! Thankfully we're back connected again as of lunchtime today, but the wee scurrilous beastie will be under observation for the foreseeable.....
Tomorrow it's boys day again. Carole is having her girls lunch in Aberdeen - at "The Nargile", a Turkish restaurant - so we'll drop her off before finding ways to amuse ourselves. Will there be chocolate, chaos and disorder involved in our planned activities? Perhaps.
Actually, far less entertainingly, we'll be going to the library, the park and perhaps a couple of independent music shops too. Thereafter we need to find a child friendly pub which is showing the Manchester Utd or Aberdeen games on their big screen. Luca has taken a surprising interest in the same, so toddler temperament permitting he'll hopefully sit with me and watch and least a proportion of the game. Photo's will be taken, so check the blog tomorrow.
Finally, I've tired a little of "Useless Facts" and so for a limited period only this will be replaced with "Conspiracy Theory of the day"
PS - Like my fellow bloggers I have attempted to gain an interest in Facebook lately. I can't, I'm sorry, it's really dull......
**Conspiracy Theory Of The Day** - The Philadelphia Experiment. Conspiracy theorists believe that during an experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in October 1943, the US Navy destroyer Eldridge was rendered invisible. According to some accounts, the scientists on the experiment found a way to bend light around an object but that the experiment went wrong and Eldridge was transported through space and time, reappearing at sea. Several sailors, it is said, were badly hurt when the experiment went wrong and some were melded into the ship's superstructure. The US Navy has denied that the experiment ever took place**
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