The beginning of another busy week here at Bigland Towers – and for once – it’s not rained! Not that we’ve had Mediterranean temperatures, in fact the Mercury struggled to get into double figures until late morning. It was all the same to me as I spent much of the day chained to my desk, sorting out pictures and paperwork as well as continuing the decluttering of the place which is freeing up shelf space and providing more items for eBay. You can find the latest additions here. They include more old rail slides as well as items of clothing. More memorabilia will follow in the next few days as I’ve still got a some of my 1,000 free items a month quota to use up before the end of July.
Whilst working I did have time to check some news on Twitter. Wait, what? Musk has renamed it? It’s no longer Twitter, it’s now ‘X’. ‘Space Karen’ has ditched a unique brand name that was recognised the world over where the adjective to ‘tweet’ has made it into Dictionaries. Instead, we have a meaningless letter that conveys – nothing at all. You really do have to wonder what this ‘genius’ is thinking – other than ‘how can I trash my $44bn investment’? It’s about as stupid a rebranding as the time in 2001 that the Royal Mail decided to change its name to ‘Consignia’ in a multi-million pound flop that was rapidly reversed. Even that was better than ‘X’ as there was a a slight chance of guessing it was something to do with consigning things (Yes, money. Down the drain: Ed). I mean, if you’re an advertiser or PR person, who the hell’s going to say ‘I know, we’ll spend millions advertising on X, it’s such a recognisable platform!’ Linda Yaccarino, Musk’s cover for Twitter Chief Exec has been busy tweeting (no, we’re not going to call it X’ing) the sort of meaningless management-speak bollocks that we in the UK have loved to take the pee out of for years (remember Gus Hedges in ‘drop the dead donkey’?)
I wonder how long ‘X’ will last?
Meanwhile, in the real world, away from the whims of idiot billionaires I took advantage of the good weather to get my full five mile constitutional, which is the first time I’ve been able to do this on a Monday in weeks. I’m determined to up the exercise ante this week come hell or high water. Let’s see if the weather Gods smile on my efforts. At least I don’t have to spend too much time cooking this week as I’ve already made a batch of carrot and coriander soup whilst this afternoon’s little job was to make a vat of Urad Dahl which is now cooling on the cooker before being consigned to the freezer. Tonight we ate just as healthily, but not veggie. As whilst I was getting my final mile walk in Dee (who’d been working in Huddersfield today) fancied fish and salad and cooked up this little storm in the Air Fryer, adding salad to complete what was a delicious dish.
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