So I managed to get home yesterday whilst it was still daylight, but instead of it being just after lunch as I had been hoping, it was just before tea time!
Every time I get the chance of a flyer something comes along to trip me up!
We crew changed in Hull yesterday, so only an hour away from Barnacle Towers, my opposite number even decided to come back a couple hours early. However, he was bringing the off going chief engineer's car, whilst I had to wait for the on coming second engineer to get his hire car.
Unfortunately his original hire car was sat outside my front door!
Yes our office had mucked it, thinking I was going back, hence the hire car being left in the courtyard at Barnacle Towers. So they had to hurriedly re-arrange another hire car for him yesterday morning. Which had the knock on effect of delaying my escape by another couple hours.
So what's been the big story whilst I've been away?
Not yesterday's economic data, I've said it before, I'll say it again; we are only just into a lost decade in this country. Be prepared for many more years of the UK bumping along the bottom of any economic graphs.
The Falklands might be the troubles of "the kind that blindsides you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday" as far as Cast Iron is concerned.
Having decimated our Armed Forces to the extent that the Ugandan Navy maybe bigger than our Royal Navy, Pope Benedict XVI has a larger army with his Swiss Guards than us, Cast Iron could go down in history as the Conservative(?) PM who lost us the Falklands.
Instead he's got his underwear in a twist over the wording/timing of the Scottish independence referendum!
This from a man whose word we can't even trust on a far more important referendum!!!
Is he scared that once we see how successful Scotland can be with-out the yoke of Bruxelles holding it back, we'll want the same?
As for the Beeb, talk about hysterical over-reaction, I almost took a club hammer to our bridge radio over their coverage!
How are the Scots going to manage with-out being able to use the English pound?
Will they be forced into the Euro?
I seem to remember Scottish pound notes, I'm sure the plates to print more are safely tucked away under Alex Salmond's bed.
No I reckon the Beeb is scared of the number of licence payers it will loose if Scotland goes. After all they wouldn't be stupid enough to go on subsidising all that southern biased propaganda when they wave farewell?
Right I've got to arrange the collection of two hire cars from Barnacle Towers today, and a few other things, so I'll wish you all a pleasant day for now.
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