“In the\u00a0real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.”<\/p>\n
F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Attr.). \u00a0To be honest I read that in a Snoopy cartoon in the 80s, back when I thought the Daily Mail practised ethical journalism. \u00a0And in the interests of veracity, it is only 02:50.<\/p>\n
I am surprised that no-one has brought this<\/a> to my attention. \u00a0Caution, \u00a0the title is frankly yuck and an attention grabber. \u00a0Anyway, it was an interesting article, we all have to live on this earth together and what keeps you awake may not trouble me, vice versa, quid pro quo, ad infinitum, et cetera, but I remain convinced that the main protagonist’s concept of reality is at a huge remove from mine. That is not necessarily a bad thing, we all know I body swerve confrontation and that we are the product of our experiences as much as of our genetic make up. \u00a0I accord his opinions as much validity as mine own, but the day I start showing an excessive interest in family spraints is the day you may terminate our association, with impunity. \u00a0Or extreme prejudice, wee nod to Arnie there and his much publicised cycle past my office, the wrong way, up the bus lane. \u00a0 There is a fairly disgusting pong issuing from the Caledonian Hotel swimming pool, which wafts along that very arterial route. \u00a0That would be what made him forget where he was. \u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n Where was I? \u00a0Dear only knows. \u00a0I forgive myself for this stream of thought, we have of late been engaged in some very difficult tasks, emotionally, and there are more on the horizon. \u00a0The word esurient has just arrived at the front of my brain so I am away to look it up. \u00a0I do forget the meaning \u00a0of many words beginning with e, like egregious. \u00a0Well there you go, it means hungry. \u00a0Given that is my default condition these days, I would have expected me to know that. \u00a0An egregious* lack of vocabulary.<\/p>\n Some good things are on the way. \u00a0A mixture of modesty and superstition forbids me to elucidate, plus I could be talking mince, ha ha ha ha ha ha cough cough. \u00a0And I actually saw a television programme from start to finish the other night, it was The Comic Strip presents….. Red Top with Maxine Peake and Stephen Mangan. \u00a0I highly recommend it. \u00a0 Even The Guardian liked it, and they did come in for some \u00a0satirical references along the way. \u00a0Can you believe MP was Twinkle in dinnerladies<\/a>? \u00a0Ever such a long time ago and I see there were only 16 episodes made, just like there were only 13 Postman Pats. \u00a0That’s not including Padraig Post in the Gaelic, natch.<\/p>\n Well that’s two lots of War and Peace downloaded so I think I shall watch them. \u00a0Dad’s Army film will be out soon, I do hope it’s good. \u00a0Cast list is encouraging and the BBC film on the same subject was brilliant. \u00a0I shall close, therefore.<\/p>\n *awfy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “In the\u00a0real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.” F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Attr.). \u00a0To be honest I read that in a Snoopy cartoon in the 80s, back when I thought the Daily Mail practised ethical journalism. \u00a0And in the interests of veracity, it is only 02:50. I am surprised […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,13,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-film","category-kirsty","category-tv-arts","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}