The only news is bins and you are probably as fed up with that subject as I am. It will have to be weekend waffle time and better still there is a BBQ invitation for this afternoon.
I
am not sure why Abena has put out this Tweet, not that there is anything wrong
with it; but she seems to be following her boss’s lead who did the same an hour earlier.
I’m just not sure why the number 76 is special; but it was the occasion for a
bloody good party. So I am told. My memories of 1945 are far from clear. Drinking out of tin cans, bathing in a zinc plated tub
in front of an open fire and Jack Frost on the inside of windows the following winter.
Where’s Wally?
Every
time Afghanistan gets into the news I am reminded of the idiocy of politicians. Just five weeks after I became the manager of London’s International Telephone
Exchange at a time when what is now BT was a government owned company I was
given instructions to cut the circuit to Kabul. Not reduce the number of lines
because of a lack of business but cut the UK’s telephone links with Afghanistan
entirely. I argued for a couple of days but on the morning of Valentine’s Day
1979 the line was chopped. Finito! Gone for all time.
By afternoon news came through that the US Ambassador in Kabul had been
assassinated. Every news editor in Fleet Street was calling me an idiot. I
had to go cap in hand to my counterpart in Paris to beg a circuit or two.
Politicians have got little right since. I feel the whole lot of them should be deposed;
starting in Downing Street.
Today I did what I promised myself I would do months ago. Make a Freedom of
Information Request for the calculations that prove the odd/even dates
restrictions applied to recycling centres make statistical sense. If it proves
to be something the management dreamed up while sitting Archimedes-like in the
bath while racing rubber ducks we will know that Bexley Councillors really have
recruited a bunch of idiots. Maybe the same ones as those who drew up the Serco contract.