Slight change of plans

30 December 2011

Our plans for New Year's Day was for a birding trip to Norfolk to get our 2012 year list off to a  good start.  Well, instead of heading off to Titchwell and Holkam Hall we will be heading for Norwich to collect Jan's new 70-300mm telephoto lens.  From there we will head to Hickling Broad to do some birding.  Hopefully it might turn out even better really seeing as the common cranes roast there and I hope to get Jan there in time to see them arrive.  I saw them a few years ago at the same place.  It will be nice to get the bearded tits and harriers that are fairly common there too.  Enough of that for now ...

Dorktown is wet and miserable today - just like the bulk of the country it the BEEB has got the weather right for once!  No plans for today other than taking Kile back home later and fuelling the Golf ready for Sunday.  Other than that I hope to get started on some writing but I'm not sure on what yet.  I had a new idea come to me yesterday after watching something on telly.  It will fit in well with one of my story plans I've already laid down.  What I really need to do is to get back on with Happyman!  I still haven't had any ideas as where to take that on from where I already am with it.  My other major project is getting my NaNo effort ready for Kindle.  It will be a freebie though I think.  It's not really long enough to make a charge for it but it might interest some folk to buy The Mission and House of Pain later.  Got to be worth a try methinks.

Mobile phone companies are getting uppity again.  The council refused planning permission for a number of mast to be erected within the town.  Now Vodaphone have appealed to somebody or other in Bristol.  Both councils, town and county are warning that winning that appeal will be the thin edge of a very large wedge that will see mast grow in number all over the town.  I'm not sure as to why they need new masts.  As far as I am aware there are no blind (or deaf) spots here in Dorktown so I fail to see why they need the new masts at all.  There are areas around the country where there are no coverage at all and perhaps they should be sorting those out before trying to install new masts where there is ample coverage already.  Which reminds me ...

At one point we were looking for a move to Weymouth in Dorset and we were packed and ready to go.  At that time we had Orange mobiles on a new 18 month contract.  We contacted them to see about cancelling it seeing as there was no Orange coverage anywhere near there.  They refused to even consider it, which didn't say much for their customer care did it? 

So what's next for today then?  Well, we will be taking Kile out to PC World this afternoon - so maybe the writing won't get done.  We have had a large windfall of dosh so I'm getting my netbook now while we have the dosh to get it.  From there a trip to Morrisons I think.  We like it there but it is rather pricy but the quality of their goods is great.  Some time ago we decided to shop there regular but found we were paying around 25% more for a weekly shop than we did at Asda.  We went back to Asda pretty quickly. 

I don't know about you good folks but I'm stuffed up.  I'm fed up with eating for the sake of it!  Yes I know, it's my choice and I could have said, "no," but I didn't.  I don't think I will be eating much at all today.  Mind you, I did enjoy my glass of malt last night.  Ardmore is not the best malt I've had but it's not a bad one either.  Maybe another tonight ;-)))