Why is it that Pickle has changed where she likes to sleep? She’s a cat who hates to be loomed over, much preferring to associate with humans by sitting next to them on the sofa (and nagging when she thinks it time for dinner). But now for some reason she’s decided to sleep just where we have to step over her to get to and from the sitting room. And gets grumpy when we do so.
Why is it that although you’ve carefully warned the company that sends you two Midsummer Murder DVDs each month that your credit card has been hijacked and given them the new credit card number, that a week later they send you a letter saying that your (old) credit card doesn’t work?
Why is it that GoogleMail decides to put an e-mail from a couple of friends into the most unlikely of folders on my Gmail system and I don’t notice the fact for two days?
Why is it that GoogleMail decides to put an e-mail from a couple of friends into the most unlikely of folders on my Gmail system and I don’t notice the fact for two days?
Why is it that men (or, more precisely, the Husband) thinks it sensible to go for a 18 mile long walk when he has a huge blister on the base of one foot and afterwards complains of the pain? (Not to mention his bloody socks.)
And why is it that every time I go into town I see lots and lots of Scouts? This at least is easy to work out as the 21st World Scout Jamboree is taking place here in Chelmsford, or to be more precise at Hylands Park. Hylands, which is situated only about a mile or two outside the center of the town is a house together with a huge park that is used for all sorts of events. For example the V festival takes place there every year and so the grounds are an ideal location for the 40,000 scouts currently over here and from all over the world. But clearly they are not confined to Hylands as we often see some in town, often shopping for food, etc.
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You should have many more scouts than usual, this year, I should think. Are they not celebrating 80 years since Lord Baden-Powell founded the movement?
Cop Car
In fact, CopCar, it's 100 years this year since Baden-Powell founded the movement, I believe at Brownsea Island in Dorset. But Hylands Park has much more room than the very small island of Brownsea.
And Chelmsford is full of scouts at the moment. It's odd. When the "V" festival takes place the only time we see the rock fans is when they are heading for the place and, looking rather unkempt, when the festival is over and they are heading back to their homes. But the scouts are constantly coming into town, mainly I think to buy food and (soft) drinks. (In fact I assume that scouts are the reason there is no Ben & Jerry's icecream to be found - as it's currently on offer at 50% off in the local Tesco supermarket. Grin.)
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