I don't know what it is nowadays but each Sunday I find myself heading out for a walk. It is the most exercise I get all week long and I enjoy it. Sometimes I see people who I have seen the week before also out on their exercise stint. I walk up a hill through the woods, then cross a road and around a heath. Twice round the heath and then head back home. Last week the ground was still damp but today it has been sunny. It wasn't too hot either, and as I walked through the wooded areas there was a nice cool chill from the shade. I looked out for the elderly sikh man who raises his hand to say hello, but he wasn't out today. There also seemed to be some kind of event happening at the heath as temporary steal fencing was erected cording off a large area. Again this is a pet hate of mine, especially when people are allowed to restrict access to a normally public place. Like, this is my zone, so don't you come in it, even though the area belongs to everyone, i'm going to build a wall and you can stay on the other side, so there. I carried on walking around the monstrous obstruction wondering what was going on there and this group held something personal against me. Yep the little paranoia head was speaking. It wasn't just me who didn't have an invite to behind the steal cage most other people didn't either. But you just can't help getting the you are not welcome feeling. What is the world coming to?
I miss Sparkling Eyes and wished I could of given her a hug today. She'll be at work all day and this is my day off. It seems the only jobs nowadays are in the service sector and they are no good for private life. Just as Layabout Lad has to work at the weekend as well. People who attend the needs of other people give up a lot in their life. Giving their opinion freely is one aspect of it. Having to put up with bad manners and harassment is another. I want to see her and don't know how long it will be before I get a chance again. For the next two and a half months London will be ruled by the Olympics and this goes for anyone who works here as well. If you want to get out of London, or go anywhere in London traffic is going to be worse than it has ever been before. It will be a very difficult time. It seems we are already being mocked by the French. It's of no surprise to find the private security firm who were to provide all the Olympic security have been incompetent. It's lucky we have an army on call, even if they have come back from doing a tour of some war torn country just to babysit an Olympic park.
The Olympics should of been scaled down, the whole thing. We could of done it with dice, paper games boards and little counters to move around. It would of been a lot cheaper, had little to no effect on traffic and could of been held in one large venue. Like a local village hall. The javelin could be throw the tooth pick, high jump replace with hop,skip and jump, swimming with who can splash the most in a bath? With a little ingenuity most of the events could of be metamorphosed into their second cousin not quite the same but interesting. The sponsors wouldn't of been able to control it either, and the board game could be sold on afterwards to make additional funds available to a country suffering from yet another recession. It's not double dip but more of quadruple dip recession. Every little bit of additional revenues stream could help. They could of even reduced the Olympic flame to a special Olympic match box, then everyone could light up their little Olympic candles at home, just to get a bit more atmosphere. The opening and closing ceremonies would be repeated millions of times all over the world and different each time. The outcome of who won the most medals would also vary. Unfortunately there could be no record of it. The Olympics would be an unrecorded one but enjoyed in homes everywhere. Shame we got the proper and original version and not a cut down paper one.
Come to think of it I should probably get out for another walk. It's all a product of being stuck in the same position for a long time. No wonder people are putting up fences all over the place.
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