What a Grey Day

Grey, damp and cold - the kind of day when you want to pull your duvet over your head and hibernate rather than get up and face the elements.

Some strange items on the news today like suggestions that families that have two or more teenagers having to share a bedroom should be classed as homeless. Can't quite work that one out. I thought it was called growing up with brothers and sisters.

Then there was the young guy who was asked to pay over £2,000 for car insurance and, as a test, changed his sex (only on the form of course) from male to female and was offered the same insurance for £1,000. Sex discrimination he claimed. Not so said the insurers, young male drivers are twice as likely to have an accident as female. Make of that what you will.

So some bright spark attached a  monitoring device to a young male's car to check his driving habits. Doh - do they not realise that with a device in his car he is going to drive very differently!!!!!

Then we had the wonderful U Tube clip (and apparently one hour's worth of additional footage is being uploaded to U Tube every second) where a classical violinist (name escapes me) was in the middle of a piece when a mobile phone went off. So what did he do next.

You might expect him to stop playing and get angry. Yes he stopped playing but he  then started playing the ring tone with embellishments and more than a little twinkle in his eye - absolutely priceless.

Tonight we are off to the weekly quiz at Wymondham Railway pub. Tomorrow will be a big day in the village with a pledge to fitness day at the local Infants' school and the official opening of the new play equipment on Hethersett Memorial Playing Field. I have enjoyed arranging a short opening ceremony and will be at all the events with my camera, recording everything for posterity.