Exciting News

I have got an interview for a job as a Job Search Officer next week. I have to do a presentation. I am working on it as we speak.

Traffic

This morning I have mainly been walking round the park, going to the post office, perusing second hand book shops, and having mug of tea at best cafe in town. It is of course lightly drizzling. In cafe old man started explaining to me what was wrong with the town's traffic system, and how it had taken him 32 mins to get into town the other day. He explained that what was really needed was a cross-valley link road, north of town, to take through traffic away from the town centre. He may have a point. Of course the road would have to run across ancient meadows, and would be in a river flood plain, but what can you do...

As I returned home, Quite Wet, I heard next door but one chav-lite neighbours L & G having major shouting contest. They were Very Loud, probably discussing the environment or the latest Martin Amis.

Currently listening to Blur - Tender.

Sunday/Monday

Yesterday morning S & I walked for several miles, criss-crossing a nature reserve, on the outskirts of Cardiff, hemmed in by river, old canal and motorway.

Later, I took J to play football, or at least he did for 20 minutes, coming off the bench. I tend to loose interest when he's not playing.

Today was grey lit by odd peach-coloured light, as the sun came through.

Now, at three, as the day dies, opposite our house, big trees double gold, lit by the going down sun.

Dark at Five

It got dark at 5.00 today, and feels like proper Winter, although it is in fact still Autumn, although having said that, all the seasons are getting messed up because of Global Warming.

Who'd 've thought it!

According to the BBC, EX-CORRIE star and former Aberystwyth student Nigel Pivaro is to be questioned by police after a gun and ammunition were found in a raid at his home.
The dad-of-two, who played bad boy Terry Duckworth, was away when officers broke down the doors of two flats in Ordsall, Salford. They spent five hours searching the properties and a pick-up truck after "acting on intelligence".
Pivaro, 46, said, "I am shocked. I am going to see my solicitor to see where to go next."
He quit the ITV soap in 2001 to study at Salford University. He then went on to get a masters degree in terrorism and international relations at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.