Bit late with today’s post, but maybe someone can please try and explain this one to me.
It’s a Facebook post from a trailer hire place down in Agulhas, and it starts off quite reasonably.
But then they add the hashtags, and I’ve actually no idea what is going on…
The smiley face at the end is the icing on the cake.
#karma #bitch #pitch #karma
I don’t understand.
United back to winning ways?
Yes.
The BBC has delayed blocking BBC Sounds app for audiences outside the UK.
It comes after a decision made by the corporation meant listeners outside the UK would only be able to access Radio 4 and the World Service via a new audio section on BBC.com.
In a statement the BBC said it is working on plans to “continue to make other BBC stations available to listeners outside the UK” adding that it “will not close BBC Sounds outside the UK until we have confirmed these plans”.
Any backtrack on their plans would be great news for me and the many thousands of BBC listeners worldwide.
I’m not counting chickens, but I am crossing fingers.
(I’m a big grown up boy and I can count things without using my fingers now.)
Much excitement last night as one of the BA flights from Cape Town to London Eefrow reported smoke in the cockpit and turned back to the Mother City. Here’s what that looked like on the big map of Southern Africa.
Halfway up Namibia is clearly enough for anyone.
But when my wife told me about this story, I was vaguely concerned that either she or the site had got it wrong. Because I had heard this story before. And it wasn’t a BA plane from Cape Town to Heathrow. It was a BA plane from Heathrow to Cape Town.
But neither of us was wrong. Because it was both of them. Look:
That’s a BA flight from LHR to Cape Town. A few days ago.
And clearly Algeria is far enough for anyone.
But hang on just a second: THAT’S THE SAME PLANE!!!!
That diversion was due to a “full electrical shutdown”. And that’s concerning, because that might have affected the entertainment system. No wonder they went back. It’s only influencers that pretend to rawdog their flights.
No-one on that first story (which was actually the second diversion), seems to have picked up on that second story (which was the first diversion). But I would say that two diversions for one plane on a single round trip is a bit dodgy.
And honestly – without being dramatic – I’d be thinking twice about getting on board G-XWBG when it leaves Cape Town (for however long).
This all sounds a bit dodgy to me.
It’s no wonder that the beagle has been feeling a bit rough.
We got the lab results back from her specimen – it’s only taken A WHOLE WEEK – and it turns out that her resident Escherichia coli is rather resistant to everything
Certainly to the three antibiotics she’s been on so far, anyway. (That’s post-op Co-amoxyclav, then Clindamycin and Trimethoprim, for my microbiological readers.)
So now we move onto the Fluoroquinolones (Endofloxacin, for my microbiological readers.)
And the good news is that we know that it’s sensitive to this. And that means that she can finally get mended.
I can’t believe that it’s taken 7 days to get this result. Back in my day, we would have got this done overnight. Yes, even for a beagle.
It’s been a really unfortunate run for Colin, but I think we finally have the answer to our question about how to get her healthy again.
Sick wife, sick daughter (exams start next week).
Grumpy beagle. Dust and grit everywhere.
Flooring to arrange. Invoices to pay.
Bathroom builders knocking seven bells out of several bits of the house.
And questions. So many questions.
What height do you want the basin?
What pattern should we use for the tiles?
How wide do you want this ledge?
Is your beagle usually this grumpy?
For the record, I went 900mm, offset, 75mm and no, she’s just had a rough few weeks.
Hopefully, once my wife emerges from her viral nastiness, she’ll agree that those were suitable answers.