Lockdown Diary - Wednesday 5th May 2021

Up early to get washed in bath without access to shower, which is out of action temporarily. Had to wait while son #1 vacated before going to bed: yep, he's back into that topsy-turvy world of going to bed as I get up.  He wants to change it, but he needs a bit of encouragement.

As I'm still delaying eating breakfast until after 9 a.m. I decide to go for a walk. The carer tells me it's cold out, but the sun is shining and the sky is awful blue, so I decide to go for it.

Back now. Walked for just over 30 minutes at a brisk pace, setting me up for a long day at work.

West End musicals; Golf; God-fearing; Rugby; Conservative; criminal partners; Brexit supporter; Sport of any sort, pretty much; Bitcoin; K-Pop. The list goes on. Two strikes and you're out.

Gonna be a quiet day on the word front. Work will dominate today and the rest of the week, so my my mind will be awash with thoughts of integration, of the IT kind, sadly.

Work continues throughout the day with highlight being a video call about my new role in the Architecture team, which is yet to be announced to the wider team.

[CDs delivered, bringing lasting joy!]

Somehow time was used up and the next thing I know I'm starting the evening meal with son #2.  We all gather together and watch the final episode of 'Line of Duty'.  One of the carers had already told me she was not impressed and though the ending was 'rubbish', so my expectations were low. 

[Spoiler Alert: If you haven't watched the last episode of the current series of 'Line of Duty' and intend to, STOP READING NOW!] 

In the event, it was better than expected, though slightly unconvincing and carefully left the door ajar as to whether Osborne was or was not implicated. It also left the AC-12 and Hastings situation unclear.  The chaos theory of corruption that Buckells was no 'criminal mastermind' and that there was no institutional corruption in the police force was at least in line with life, even if there were hints that it wasn't the truth. This was plausible on one level: in real life people spend lifetimes searching for reasons and meaning behind things when, most often, it is just chaos in action - amongst random events, patterns can emerge if you are determined to find them. It is is also a truism that in real life things don't have neat endings or resolutions: sometimes you cannot get to the bottom of someone's behaviour and when you try to fit your thinking onto someone else's actions without knowing what they are thinking, you are always doomed to failure. People just don't make sense. That I know to be true, but let's just...

Eric Daniel, John Greaves, etc / 'Absence' / 'Melancholia'



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