Heating, cakes and imagination ... Monday 14th Oct

Another Monday. Another week. I don’t know about you but as the temperatures fall, it can be harder for me to find that get up and go in the morning. Today is definitely one of those days, when my get up and go, has got up and gone. In the Perry household we have not yet succumbed to putting on the heating for the winter. Just an hour or two in the evening, if instructed by Mrs P. I have seen it written that it is more cost effective to have your heating on permanently at a low heat, than for large bursts at higher heats in the morning and evenings. It sounds counter-intuitive to me that having the heating on longer will cost less, but perhaps it’s something I need to try to see if it works. The danger is if it doesn’t work my heating bills go sky high, but on the flip-side if it does they go down. An interesting conundrum for me to mull over.

Mrs P and I have our weekly race around the supermarkets this morning. The earlier we get there the quieter it is. Though I have also noticed the free cakes for tasting on the deli tend to come out later in the day. I guess that’s when the crowds sre in. Fortunately today they had some chocolate brownies out early, so that snack kept me going. Well it kept me going back anyway, as I seemed to pass the deli counter at every given opportunity. “Free cakes”. It sounds like a good slogan for a political party to me. Though maybe the overtone of Marie Antoinette’s alleged comment, “Let them eat cake”, would strike the wrong note.

Having finished the book I was reading, and enjoying, last week, and as a consequence reading the weekends papers this weekend (as opposed to through the week as normal), I’ve dipped into the series of Inspector Morse books Mrs P bought me a couple of years ago. Every time I find myself wondering what to read next I pull out the next one in the Morse series and away I go. Even though I’ve probably seen the book dramatised on TV, and so may have an idea what is going to happen. The book gives you so much more. To me 99% of the time the book is better than the film. I think it’s the ability to create pictures in your mind. Where TV shows you what it looks like, books let you use your imagination. I think it goes hand in hand with my day dreaming.

Yours warming up for winter.

Jay