The Official Nonsense Thread

[Caspin]

Cold up there, is it? Want to swap?! We seem to be having another mini heatwave at the moment and I'm sick of it. It's that awkward time of year when you see some people still in summer clothes and flip-flops walking alongside those who've jumped ahead and are in wool coats and scarves.

Very disheartening job-hunting there, Minty.

I was listening to a woman on the radio this morning who can only find part-time jobs in her area, so is currently working three different ones. Other family members are doing the same so they hardly ever see each other because their crazy timetables can't be coordinated. All three jobs are so low paid that she doesn't pay tax. It's mind-boggling. One job is in retail and she has had her hours cut from 16 hours a week to 11 hours, but considers herself lucky because some people are only being given 3 hours per week. I'd imagine that the money you get for the first of those hours just about covers your travel to work. So depressing.

To try to cheer you up I can report that this morning I walked past that tree that had a lot of drunken bees flying around it a few weeks ago, to find that it now has a load of dead wasps beneath it. I don't know what that tree is up to, but it is certainly hazardous to health for flying creatures!

Last night I went to the NT to see Edward II by Christopher Marlowe. They had done a sort of partial modernising of the play and the set was very weird. I did not really enjoy it all that much - too many gimmicks. Poor old Edward II certainly game to a painful end - on a big plastic sheet, Dexter-style!

It was press night, so there were all these people sitting at the back with their notepads and iPads. I'd have thought they'd stick the journalists in better seats than that. I will be interested to read those reviews.

I saw a picture yesterday of this cathedral that they've built in Christchurch, New Zealand, after theirs was squished in the earthquake. It looks like a house of cards and in fact it is made of cardboard. It looks so nice when illuminated doesn't it!