oursin | This has been a rather trying day (Reply)

Partner's cataract op has been deferred yet again (okay, we place the blame where it is due and not on overworked and underpaid docs, but this is still very annoying).

Waitrose delivery was massively delayed (apparently there was a van broke down and this threw the whole system out?) and we did not get our order until over 2 hours later than our maximum expectation. Still we got it, and no major other problems.

I also had some rather irksome tech things which I think I have sorted.

I am feeling v tired which I think it is this VERY HOT and humid weather.

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In other news, saw on one or other social media site (these are getting to the point of too menny) a bloke (pretty sure from the user name and the attitude it was a bloke) going 'Large home libraries are lame.... haven't been a status symbol for 200 years.... Donate your book after reading it instead of making wallpaper out of it'.

Has this person, we ask, ever read a book? Have they, in fact, ever met another person?

This seems to me one version of that thing where people think people doing something that they don't/wouldn't do is somehow Doing It At Them, rather than, you know, doing their own thing, and we feel that reading books might have created a rather less judgey mindset into the harmless avocations of other people.