The Official Nonsense Thread

[Caspin]

Sorry for the lack of recent contributions - although I see you have been talking quietly amongst yourselves, so gold stars all round!

My every waking moment appears to be taken up either at work or else writing CVs and so on. Apparently writing about me is the most boring and frustrating task I could have set myself. But it must be done and thankfully I am now making some progress. Well, I have at least chosen a font.

I have also been spending time opening cupboards, staring at the contents thinking that I should get rid of some stuff so I don't have to pack it, then feeling overwhelmed and closing the cupboard. The drinks cupboard is emptying nicely, that's about all.

What did I miss? Personally I wouldn't use either the Sun or the Mail, or actually most UK newspapers, for anything other than picking up dog poo. Unfortunately some of my family use such trash as their main source of information about the world and are perfectly happy to absorb whatever the latest fad might be, as well as allowing all the hate and bile to prop up their own prejudices. It's depressing, but not much to be done about it. It's not as though we are blessed with large numbers of factually correct, balanced news sources these days.

French verbs, eh. I was generally quite bewildered when trying to learn French at school. Apparently I got an A at GCSE (see - the CV is useful for knowing these things!) but goodness knows how! I do remember the teacher telling us that we were in luck because a Scouse accent lends itself well to speaking French. This of course resulted in great hilarity and impossibly comic impressions of Allo Allo characters from all the class clowns. Despite all my best girly swot efforts, I could only really remember words for foods and insults, which resulted in a somewhat difficult time during the speaking test. Why oh why could the entire task not have involved ordering from a menu and then berating the waiter!?

Going to take a bit of a break today so hopefully might play some Sims, if I can remember how, or possibly start a new book. I went to a talk by historian Greg Jenner last year and bought his book so maybe I will dabble in that. I love Horrible Histories, which he writes, and apparently the book contains a lot of interesting material about the history of toilets. So that'll be ace.

Catch you later, lovely people.