Hopes, Dopes and Ropes

Welcome to another year, then. May I wish you a happy and healthy 2022, blah, blah, blah, balderdash and bollocks, its only another day etc etc etc.
Seriously though, I hope you achieve all you want to, if you are the sort of person who aims to achieve certain things, and the most important thing to achieve, of course, is your continued support and readerment of this blogsite.

I popped into work today, for the first time in what feels like ages. There were a few things to do, one of which was to block off the main children’s play area. It’s flooded, and not draining away for some reason. It’s not bad enough to haul the maintenance guys in off their extended Christmas break, but it doesn’t look safe enough to use, and we do still have people using it occasionally (what with people still being on site, and some of them having young relatives visiting, and the temperature being so unseasonably warm outside) so I’ve had to block it off in a very professional manner by stretching a spare bit of blue nautical rope between the apparatus and hanging a laminated ‘Do Not Use’ sign from it.
I am nothing if not resourceful.
God, I butchered the English language in this paragraph more than I butchered the playground job earlier.

In other news, it stuns me that people still aren’t getting the hang of Covid 2 years after it was identified. I picked up some bits of top-up shopping this morning and was surrounded by people – mostly OLD people – not wearing masks, not worrying about keeping their distance, and fingering as much of the loose fruit and vegetables as it was possible to finger before finally deciding which bits to buy. Still – its not like we’re getting about 200,000 verified new cases a day and need to be careful, is it? If it was left up to me, anyone unvaccinated and/or not following the scientific guidance should be forced to wear a full-body biohazard suit or forced to live on an island.

Two days into the New Year and I’ve invented a word already! For the creation of ‘readerment’ I award myself 16 points and a large chunk of shortbread.

RC 2-1-22