{"id":2963,"date":"2021-08-26T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2021-08-26T22:22:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T22:22:05","slug":"thursday-26th-august-2021-day-528","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mch-net.info\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/26\/thursday-26th-august-2021-day-528\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 26th August, 2021 [Day 528]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a day which either started off well or badly depending upon which way you look at it.\u00a0Under my new regime, I now get up at the crack of dawn (well 7.00am actually) and throw some clothes on so\u00a0the I can leave the house at 7.40 and arrive at <\/span>Waitrose<\/em> in Droitwich at 1 minute to 8.00am when the store opens. I was the first customer through the doors when the\u00a0store opened and I think altogether there may have only been about three of us in\u00a0the store at that time.\u00a0<\/span>After discussions with my family, I have more-or-less\u00a0decided that I need to amend my diet slightly to\u00a0include some more ‘red meat’ within limits. I did find some\u00a0venison steaks that were beng discounted (quite heavily for Waitrose<\/em>) and these I bought. When I eventually did some research on the web, I discovered that\u00a0venison per 100g portion actually contains almost twice the amount of iron as the equivalent\u00a0portion of beef and twelve times the proportion of iron to be found in chicken. Not only does it contain gram for gram two and a half times as much iron as spinach or broccoli – moreover, the iron is of a form (‘haem’) that can be more easily absorbed by the body. Now that I know all of this, I am resolved to eat venison fairly regularly if I can find but I suspect\u00a0that \u00a0stores like Waitrose<\/em> will always have some supplies of it. Whilst I am it, I intend to keep my consumption of pulses and dark-green vegetables at an optimum and\u00a0perhaps to eat fish twice rather than once per week. So I was feeling quite\u00a0pleased with having to managed to get everything on my list (and one or two things that really\u00a0should have been on the list in the first place) when with a sickening thud I realised that I had left all my money (and\u00a0credit cards) at home. I approached the help desk full of contrition as I had a trolley full of food and no way of paying for it. However, I have to say that the staff could not have been nicer or\u00a0more understanding about my plight. The customer services manager did a\u00a0quick scan of things in my trolley\u00a0to find out things that might\u00a0melt or unfreeze (like ice-cream) and we put these back on the shelves. Then my trolley full of food was parked with my name on it whist I\u00a0raced back home to pick up my cash and then back again to the store (a trip of about 6\u00bd miles each way, which wasn’t too bad) I then returned with the cash and paid for my purchases. Like last week, I find that I am actually saving money by shopping directly rather than relying upon online shopping even though I had bought one or two unanticipated\u00a0things so again, I am more than happy to be getting into my stride in the new system. Then it was a case of unpacking the shopping and getting \u00a0Meg to her optician’s\u00a0appointment \u00a0at 11.30. Naturally, I took the\u00a0opportunity to wander around Poundland<\/em> whilst her eyes were being\u00a0examined and bought one or two\u00a0<\/span>little things that might come in useful.\u00a0Then we went by car to the park and parked in\u00a0what is a ‘top’ car park so that we can avail ourselves of our normal vantage point. We heard some\u00a0distant sounds of what seemed a\u00a0children’s entertainer and a crowd of exuberant children. Chatting\u00a0with the\u00a0couple (who we know by sight, plus their dog) on the next park bench to ourselves we were were speculating whether it was\u00a0an old-fashioned ‘Punch and Judy<\/em>‘ show which we could hear in the distance but not actually see. We were speculating whether the ‘wife-beating’ is still a\u00a0regular part of the show or whether\u00a0modern sensibilities means that some changes are \u00a0observed. Just out of interest, I wondered a little about the\u00a0history of Punch and Judy<\/em> and discovered this on the web:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In one apparently representative Punch and Judy performance in 1827, Judy appears as an ugly and \u201cdisorderly\u201d wife, slapping Punch and then leaving their baby in his care. When the baby begins screaming, Punch throws it out the window. Judy returns and, learning of her child\u2019s death, begins hitting Punch, who eventually kills her with a stick and celebrates the murder with a song. While Punch was also known to beat and murder a cast of other puppets, including a blind man and the devil, the conflict with his wife remained the most consistent and popular aspect of the shows<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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This afternoon seemed fairly quiet and I had a quiet read of <\/span>The Time<\/span><\/span><\/em>s<\/span><\/em> whilst at the same time absorbing some of the\u00a0terrible news from the\u00a0rolling\u00a0<\/span>news programme about the bomb\u00a0explosions\u00a0outside the airport in Kabul where about \u00a0thirteen people have been killed and even more injured. I then successfully persuaded a credit\u00a0card\u00a0company to alter their payment date so that it aligns more clearly with my\u00a0pattern of\u00a0expenditure.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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