Day 794

Aka Thursday 4^th April 2019

Went for my Long Walk this morning and walked 10.14km (6.30miles) in 1 hour 52 minutes and 13 seconds, which burnt 886 calories and took 12,691 steps…

…and on my walk I saw these posters in a not so near neighbours window…

…and it’s just disheartening, just so wrong…like where do you start, do you explain the difference between The Treaty of Versailles, a peace treaty to end a war (in this case World War I), and an agreement on how the UK Government wants to leave membership of the European Union, do you try to explain how no-one trades purely on WTO terms and how we would need to negotiate want those terms would be (so instead of negotiating with 27 countries we’d be negotiating with the World!), do you explain that your council tax payment goes to your local council, who have no hand in negotiating Brexit, and not to the Government, who are leading on Brexit…it’s like all things pro Brexit, emotionally based, nonsensical and breaks down as soon as you think it through logically. 

…I also saw a poster that is relevant to a job I’ve applied for, so I’ll need to follow it up in case I get to the interview stage…

…when I got home my copy of the latest issue (#5) of ‘Die’ had arrived:

…and I worked on some new job applications and spoke with Hays about a temp job with the local council…

…and I watched ‘The Mummy Returns’, which is almost as much as fun and as good as ‘The Mummy’. The story still has its tongue in its cheek, our heroes are dashing, the villains are rotten, the perils perilous, but the story does feel a little flabby, not as light on its feet as ‘The Mummy’, as through it could have done with one final edit. For example, I didn’t get a sense of the threat of the Scorpion King or of the Army of Anubis (especially if Imhotep got control of them) to the rest of the world, but in ‘The Mummy’ we got to see Imhotep interact with the wider world and normal people and saw how he affected them. But it’s a minor grumble about what is a fun and entertaining film. 7/10.

…and I did the G2 Crossword:

…which, compared to yesterday’s crossword, went a little downhill as I had to cheat on a fifth of the clues (four out of 21, would have been a clean sweep if I’d know that ‘Victor Hugo’ was the ‘The Hunchback of Notre-Dame author’, that ‘obstreperous’ meant ‘stroppy’, that the ‘Iroquois’ were a ‘member of a former confederacy of six Native American peoples’ and remembered that ‘edify’ means ‘enlighten’.