Making A Meal Of It

Had a rather full day today: Work was no more or less busy than of late but I was booked-up to have lunch with Ping, which ran to an hour and a half in the end (well, I didn’t have anything pressing to get back to) and then had a call from Rosie who sounded very down. She had waited in all day for the guy from Sky to come and fit the dish in her new place, when he arrived (circa. 4pm) he only stayed a few minutes before rushing off before his van got clamped by the over-zealous local parking attendants. Rosie was not impressed, to say the least! It’ll be a week before they can get another engineer out.

Had a few thoughts about the utility (or not) of 3G video-phones on my way home.

After work I went round to Rosie’s with a bottle of wine, fixed her DVD player which had been misbehaving, and ate comfort food with her. The new flat is not a bad size, but it is badly in need of decoration and a bit of atmosphere. At the moment it’s very dreary and depressing. It won’t take much – probably just some polyfilla and paint would make a massive difference – but when it is done it will be a lovely place; panoramic views over south London, all the way to the river!

Also had a bit of jolly fun with Sainsburys today. They (and Woolworths) have taken DVDs of Jerry Springer, The Opera off their shelves, after receiving some complaints from a Christian pressure group. The decision was reported by the BBC earlier today and later on, a copy of an email from Equity came around and set the Chorus’ mailing list alight.

It is a truly daft decision, one which appears even more ridiculous when their standard response to email complaints about it states; “As a retailer, we feel we should offer our customers a choice of what to buy.” The cover of the DVD is not intrinsically offensive, so presumably the “tiny fringe Christian group” responsible finds the mere existence of the DVD offensive. Well, I find lots of things about certain fringe Christian groups offensive too, so I’m enjoying the set-to with Sainsburys & Woolies about the issue.

I spoke to Owen this evening. He is not having a fun time of it at work at the moment…

Out for dinner with eight or so friends tomorrow night, so I’m looking forward to that as I won’t be seeing any of them over Christmas/New Year.