Thursday 19th Sept

Well the BBC misled me about the weather again this morning. Forecast for fine weather, so I don’t take a coat as I walk to the library, and what do you know? Here comes the rain and I’m wet. Still as I do like walking in the rain, it’s quite a pleasant walk. The library is busy enough this morning but I manage to finish reading most of the weekend’s papers. I have not yet succumbed to the modern onslaught of getting your news online. Call me old fashioned but I like a physical newspaper. I also think it exposes me to more and varied information. If I looked at online newspapers, I might only click on the main news headlines and sport sections, so missing a lot of the stuff I read by turning pages in the traditional newspaper.

I stop by the folks house for a cuppa, and they are emptying the kitchen, because they are having a new one fitted starting tomorrow. This is causing small amounts of stress, but as I remind them in less than a week it’ll be done, and in the scheme of things it’s not that long.

I spend the afternoon cleaning, vacuuming and then ironing in front of the baseball on TV. I’m starting to worry what I’ll watch with my ironing when the season finishes next month.

In the evening I go to the season ending meeting of the local umpires association. Like all of these types of meetings, it’s the same people bringing up the same issues, and rehashing the same ground again and again. Scoring pedantic points, off each other. So boring at times. I think I’ll give the monthly meetings a miss through the winter. If people want to attract new members to clubs and associations, they sometimes need to look at the old members first.

Yours looking towards a change in the weather.

Jay