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A day of rest
Today I had a rest, a day free from sorting out the contents of the house; I joined the local ramblers on an eight mile walk. Though it rained most of the time, it was mild and still pleasant. Leaves on trees were beautiful shades of yellow, orange and brown. Mushrooms and toadstools had all but disappeared. We started from a RSPB nature reserve. A few crows were the only birds I saw.
Last week the helpful neighbour and I re-routed the cable for an extra socket in the lounge into the cavity wall. That was a job and a half; it took us all week. We had to remove three bricks in the process. Yesterday the neighbour returned to mortar in the bricks while I drilled out an airbrick in the kitchen wall so we could replace it with ordinary bricks. I never expected to be doing that in my retirement. I hadn't used an electric drill before and, fortunately, did less damage than I expected. The only casualty was one drill bit which I bent.
What existed before 'decision-making bodies'? Governing councils perhaps? A reporter on the radio today said: 'Members of Oxford University's highest decision-making body ...'.
Quote for the day
If the use of the horn warning signal by motorists was forbidden ... they would have to go much slower ... and would not be able, by blowing a horn, to order everybody else out of the way. Their speed would be greatly reduced, they would have to pull up oftener and they would be forced to be a little more considerate of other people.
Lord Willoughby de Broke, proposing the banning of horns on cars as the solution to speeding, 1908
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