A Ramble through Smilie Land

This morning as I was walking to work (early due to the fact our Internet and thus our phones and computers and generally everything that keeps us going was down) I saw one of the saddest sights ever....
Stray geese. Just the 2 on there own.... which wrong as you might agree...what happened to the rest of there flock? Have those nasty poatchers been out again..... And above all isn't it still too early for the migrating
Geese to be turning up here already? Course they may have been normal geese but I don't think so. They looked a bit like Grey legs but we are too far south and its too early. Its really sad to think that we've messed up there habitat so much that the silly birds are flying the wrong way. Rather worrying too.

Then as soon as I just about digest this thought I come across another tragedy ..they were demolishing one of my FAVOURITE buildings in town the building should have been listed but it until June housed the Borough council and apparently it was more expensive to try and make it wheel chair friendly than it was to demolish it and its beautiful gardens in favour of a modern monstrousity that cost upwards of a million pounds (and guess who lists the buildings?)

Then before they've even officially opened the new one we get a letter saying that the county council might be dissolved and reshaped and the borough may no longer exist or need the stupid building.
And they still demolished the Old Doctors House ( as the older villagers called it). Well I suppose the theory is that we already have enough listed buildings for one town and that they are pain on the property market because of all the regulations and restrictions that come with them.....But it was a beautiful building.....

Another sad fact is that today without the Internet the world practically grinds to a halt almost nothing will work without a computer and if your programme cant be accessed without the Internet then you really come unstuck.....well unless your lucky enough to employ me in which case I can usually tell you if the book is in or not, if we have a copy and where I've shelved it. But can I remember who wrote the Swiss family Robinson...can I HA ... thats a no if you are wondering. ANd who on earth gives a tiny little year 7 homework on ovens and stoves? And why do all cookery books appear to assume you already have your cooker/stove?

But the good things.....the fallback system means I could cheat the computer and let someone have his book out for a longer period ...extended loan As I said to the guy if we are all miserable at least someone should get something good out of it. The guy at work ( who for future reference purposes I've decided to rename Harry) made me a cake....he came all the way in to work on his bike on his day off after working he most hours out of the lot of us and getting most of the flak about the phones and the Internet yesterday to bring ME a still warm freshly baked Carrot cake. I've decided he's definitely one of the nicest people I have ever ever met.
Now if I could just convince him that he should learn some sesame street songs on his guitar to sing at kiddies rhyme time life would be perfect. Course his and the rest of the staff's valid point is that the kids today have no idea who rubber ducky is Or where sesame street is.....poor children. I'm thinking I might tell him about the litnet forummy bit we already have litnet down as a useful and recommended site for Shakespeare emergencies ( you'd be surprised the number of GCSE kids we get in who need to get hold of this act to this act of this play by tomorrow and then get annoyed that a) its already gone out and b) it takes at least a week for books that are ordered to arrive on the van. ) But not sure I want someone I know in RL to get to know the night me.......esp as it will mean not being able to complain about work....