Wednesday 19 June 2013

Tunnock Tea Cakes, a Unicycle, the Weather and the contradictions of BBC Radio 4

The day had its contradictions and it is entirely the man at the BBC’s fault on that Today programme on Radio 4 that is on in the morning, you see I was listening to the radio having a nice cup of tea and trying to get my head into a state on normality. It takes time for me to get to a state of normal in the morning, I am not one of these folk who wake up all chirpy and bouncy and get up singing and smiling, in fact I would say I have still not reached that point by the evening when I go to bed, I blame it on a day that needs to be longer. Right . . . . . . . . . back to this contradiction; as the voices from the radio penetrated my head I suddenly heard talk of the weather and that some scientists are saying that we can expect to have wet summers for at least the next ten years or maybe longer. Well that sort of woke me up, are they really serious, ten years of wet British summers, apparently it is something to do with a warming North Atlantic and the jet stream or the like and there was talk of some localized anomaly in Shropshire that so far has defied normal scientific principles.  Some scientist said for all the world he would swear someone had a weather machine but they all laughed at such a foolish idea.



The contradiction arises from the fact today was hot very very hot and dry probably the hottest day we have had in the nearly two years we have lived at this location. It is very off putting, I have been brought up to believe the BBC and the men/women of Radio Four (formally the home service) they are like the rock of world affairs the steady voice of reason and an unbiased voice among the thousands of other radio stations pumping out propaganda or rubbish or both. Anyway after listening to that I got up  . . . . . . . . DAMN I have written this much and all I have done is listen to the radio and got up…….. How did that happen? I think I need to fast forward to the end of the day

So there you go after the arms fell off the aliens body Esmeralda escaped and Mr Jones was super gluing the alien back together as evidence. Freddie and his ferrets were able to return the roller skates to their rightful owner and the council will be filling the large hole in sometime in the morning, luckily we all got out and did a runner before they turned up to assess the damage. As for the Goat he is limping slightly but it is his own fault, he was told that drinking petrol is fraught with dangers and just because a man on a unicycle can do it does not mean a goat has too, although I was impressed by the goats ability to ride the unicycle, its just a shame he did not work out how to stop it.


Oooo yes I got to eat five hundred  Tunnocks Tea Cakes in one go  . . . . . . . .WELL COOL although I feel a little sick . . . . . . . .. Mum says IDIOT


   
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10 comments:

  1. After such a warm (and sweaty) day, your blog is the perfect tonic.
    I don't think i have so hard in ages (for the right reasons). thankyou Rob.

    Speaking of the BBC (or BBC as I like to say it) have you ever watched daily politics on BBC(BBC)2?

    There is something very un-BBC like that happens on that show every day. I have a half writen post about it for next week, but I am getting photo evidence so people son't think i'm making it up.

    ps- hope the goat is ok, them pesky aliens.....tut!

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    1. Thanks Mr H, I will look out for the Post. . . .

      I know that Custard Creams are good but there is nothing that can beat a Tunnock's Tea Cake those things are magic although rubbish to dunk in a mug of tea.

      I tend not to watch politics on the TV these days because I get annoyed by them (politics not TV's ...OK TV's also). It is not party related, because they all annoy me loads. I think sometimes there must be a few honest politicians doing it for the right reason, but I don't think they are allowed on TV....

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  2. I heard about the North Atlantic being warmer and thus we are getting wetter summers. You do understand when they make such statements, we start getting reverse weather. Remember after we were officially in "drought" conditions in March, 2012, it rained almost continuously after that.

    Tea cakes for you and another truckload are on the way. Enjoy!

    Gary! Ha ha ha ha and ha and ha ha ha, hey and hay, hay, ha, ha.....:)

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    1. Hello Good Sir I hope you are right about the reverse weather because then I will have ten years of sunny weather.

      My one worry is that Chocolate Tea Cakes do not fair well in hot weather which leads to a terrible dilemma as to what would be best for me.

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  3. So for the next ten years, we're going to have what amounts to our usual British weather. Of course it will mean that I will have to buy a new coat. The one I have is so old, that when it rains, it smells like wet dog and even wet dogs don't like the smell of wet dog.

    Mind you, it was hot today and I found myself reenacting a scene from The Wizard Of Oz, by screeching "I'm melting, I'm melting," outside Asda. Not sure why the manager asked me to move on. :)

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    1. Ah yes the wet dog coats I know that smell partly the result of a wet dog sleeping on my coat.

      As for Asda it could have been so much worse you could be screeching "I'm melting, I'm melting," and smelling of wet dog.... then the manager would have called the police to get you moved on.

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  4. Yesterday was a hot one. I was sweatier than a sweaty man's sweaty bits. I think the BBC would be more accurate if it wasn't for a certain someone tampering with a weather machine.

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    1. Weather Machine science is only at its very early stages of development, one day we will all have a small device called the isun where apps will be available to control the bit of weather around us. The sneaky bit will be that really good weather apps will cost loads and rubbish weather apps will be the ones supplied with the isun as free. Those with the expensive apps will take higher priority than those with the cheap or free apps. If you do not own an isun you will spent your day moving about between other peoples hot cold rain sun snow and end up with hypothermia and flu.

      Mark my words it is only a matter of time, you cant stop the grinding wheels of technologhy, OK you can with a pointy stick but...........

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  5. Yum, teacakes. I'm still waiting for the rain the weather forecast has been promising all week.

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    1. Strangely not long after you left this comment Miss Laura it rained . . . . and now your post has vanished...... The world is a strange place me thinks.

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