The world was a very dark place at twenty past six this morning and the skies steadfastly refused to brighten up all day. Not good.
It was cold in the office too, as the arrival of Autumn seems to have taken whoever is in charge of the central heating by surprise and the boiler wasn't working when they tried to turn it on. It's hard to believe that we have gone straight from air-con last week to needing the radiators on this week. You would expect at least a couple of weeks of grace in between the two, but apparently not.
We noticed that BBC4 were re-showing the classic 'Boys from the Blackstuff' last night, which is another series about the political and the personal, in this case the grinding hardship of life on the dole in the early 80s. For some reason I remembered it as being funnier than it actually was, which is odd really, although I suppose the bits about the two dole office snoops had elements of black farce to them. The ending was a lot grimmer than I remembered too. Not cheery viewing, but worthwhile when we have the political rhetoric about life on benefits being an easy option.
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