The tingle in my toe indicates I sit around too much, similar tingles in my fingers indicate repetitive strain injury caused by too much time playing solitaire working on this laptop. Therefore more walking and exercise is required, but this aches the knees, it doesn't do much for the back either. However, this morning I crossed the park, wandered the long way, that is another five minutes, through the town, and limped home hungry for lunch.
This afternoon I returned the empty beer vinegar bottles to the recycling bins at the supermarket, with great difficulty. For a start the bag appeared heavy for some reason, and the actual bins had not been emptied. The lids were bursting open, bags crammed with bottles lay all around, beer bottles, wine bottles, spirits of many kind bottles, all stood to attention awaiting disposal in amongst the discarded plastic bags and broken chips of glass that always lies everywhere here. At least people are trying to recycle and save the planet.
Having added my bag to the flock I meandered towards the bank, took cash from the 'Hole in the Wall,' and marvelled at how easy this was. In times past Scots banks were not keen on customers, after all, they had work to do, so they opened at 9:30, closed for an hour at lunchtime, and closed again to the public at 3:30. These are all ideal times for the man in the street to make use of a bank! Today I just inserted the card, pressed numbers, pressed another couple of buttons and money appeared from the wall. This is great!
I wonder who the card belonged to?
Anyway, I hobbled down the road passing many mum's returning the kids from the schools, crossed the park once again and amazingly sat on a bench to enjoy the warmth of the day! It was heading towards 70ish degrees today. Short sleeves abounded, women putting their noses in the air expecting all men to admire them, I look the other way to annoy them, all around the unexpected relief that summer might be nearing. Ha! I thought it was getting cloudy now, the weather man has promised rain tonight! Typical.
Sadly the local elections turned out to be disappointing for us all. While the Tories lost heavily it was clear they did not lose heavily enough. Worse, many continued to vote for them, in spite of the mess they are leaving us. Labour have done well in Scotland, but elsewhere they have gained many local seats but not enough to encourage hope in a general election. Boris may yet try for an early general election if he thinks he will gain enough of a winning margin. I doubt this however. There again there was not sufficient displeasure amongst the faithful to call for his removal, but underneath the ground is shifting.
My day of excitement will end with the second leg of Inverness Caledonian v Partick Thistle tonight. The play-off time is here again and always to be welcomed. The first legs are not always so enjoyable, however, when the game is there to be won in the second leg it gets interesting. These are good games to watch. However, not all is good in Scottish football, last nght the blue bigots won through to the final of a European competition. This is sad news to me. The last thing we need is the sectarian pair getting more cash, they will waste it on themselves and continue to spurn Scottish football. This is not a good moment for Scotland.
