Attention, Give it to Me

I succumbed to a questionable 'news article' on Yahoo today.  A 'regular flyer' to Benidorm was 'fuming because his Ryanair ticket did not have one thing', and I have to admit I was enticed to click on it because a) I'm always interested in what David O'Leary is doing with Ryanair's services and b) what could it be??  a seat? a toilet?  I was genuinely intrigued.  

How disappointing - it seems that he couldn't get WiFi, and the article went on and on about his 75,000 followers offering him advice without once reporting that it was obviously a joke designed to get attention.  What's worse, he got it.

Time is Ticking Away

 'Jeremy Clarkson was a show off' is not news, even though some on-line outlets have an item about someone from Top Gear who stated the obvious.  I refuse to click on the article to see who it was, as a matter of principle (the principle being I don't want to give advertisers click money) and also because I don't in the least bit care about the facts, just the fact that some editor added it to a news page thinking it was a good idea.  I wonder how old they are?

I intend to do a couple of short runs again at the weekend to see if it builds by hamstring up.  I'm not too hopeful, but you never know.  I did ponder seeing a physio, but not sure they would tell me anything very different.  Time seems to be the deciding factor form what I read. 

Time on Your Side.

 Pam Bondi, Mr Tump's justice secretary (or something like that) is supposedly going to see Ghislane Maxwell in jail.  It is a matter of speculation as to why, but I would be very nervous if I were Ms Maxwell.  I can imagine Bondi will be looking for an imaginative story to get Trump out of his latest predicament relating to the 'The Epstein Files', and I expect we will never know exactly how the conversation goes, but subsequent actions will give us a clue.  I'm guessing some sort of pardon could be offered, but probably not immediately so as to not look so obvious, or maybe a move to a UK prison?  We will see but I will be very surprised if this kills off the story whatever the outcome of the discussions.

I ran 0.7 miles yesterday without walking.  Amazing.  The hamstring was sore but I am now going through with the a 'little and often' strategy to see if it gradually builds up strength.  Another 'wait and see'.

Watered Down.

 There has been a review of the way the water companies are regulated, and the conclusion is..we need a new regulator.  It a bit more complicated than that of course, but at least we will have someone to blame for the last 10 years of ineptitude, that's important. 

My opinion is that we have been too focused on not increasing bills than improving the services, which is an almost impossible job whilst maintaining the private ownership model.  I always thought that private ownership of water companies was a dumb move, but there's no talk about changing that given the large cost of bringing them back into public ownership.. although a one-off spend would be worth it given the way the service runs ta the moment.  We still want the companies to invest in something that costs them money, so no surprise that they don't as long as they still get paid for doing it.  It remains to be seen what the new regulator will be able to do, but the form book suggests 'not much'.

I tried a bit of a run on Saturday to see how the hamstring was feeling - result was not very well so had to resort to a run/walk for just under 2 miles.  I'm a bit undecided on the best course of action.  Do I limp on with the run/walks? ...or rest it entirely for another week or 3?  I'll have a think.   

  

I just Died in Your Arms Tonight

 I've been back a week now from my 2 weeks in France, and as usual feels like more than a week.  It's odd how the perception of time changes depending on the activity. I guess there's a medical name for that, there usually is.  The sunshine going to be replaced by thunderstorms at the weekend (according to the forecasts) which is a bit annoying when we have 2 days off, but hopefully it will not be continuous rain.  I need to get out and test how my hamstring is feeling, it wasn't too good on holiday where I had to resort to walks instead of runs.

Meanwhile, during a Coldplay concert a camera picked up a loving couple in the audience to display to the crowd, whereupon they quickly disentangled themselves and frantically ducked behind a screen.   How times have changed.