I’ve been for a walk around the green – to give myself that ‘break’ from staring at the monitor that one is supposed to have.<\/p>\n
On this walk my companion was my iPod; I\u00c2\u00a0 took it to help me decide on the playlist for this weekend’s podcast.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately there were two problems with this:<\/p>\n
Unfortunately problem the first<\/span>: my iPod doesn’t see or have a mouth to tell me things, because when I got back I caught sight of myself in the mirror in the lounge.<\/p>\n I had a spot. On my nose.<\/p>\n What the fuck is this?<\/p>\n Puberty has been, hung around for a bit and departed. Ages ago. And yet I still get the occasional zit.<\/p>\n What?<\/p>\n And unfortunately problem the second<\/span>: I now have, thanks to my iPod, eighteen, yes 18, tracks vying for a slot on tonight’s playlist. This is, obviously, not helpful.<\/p>\n And speaking of unhelpfulness, here’s another question.<\/p>\n How is it that when we go shopping I buy a tube of Prawn Cocktail-flavoured Pringles, Soph buys a tube of Paprika-flavoured Pringles and yet – when I go to the cupboard – the only one that’s left is the tube of Paprika?<\/p>\n Huh, huh, huh, huh?<\/p>\n How does that work?<\/p>\n Because if Soph wanted Prawn Cocktail-flavoured Pringles she’d have bought them, right?<\/p>\n So there’s some kind of sorcery or inter-dimensional thievery going on around here that causes the Prawn Cocktail-flavoured Pringles to disappear, obv.<\/p>\n Because I couldn’t entertain, for a moment, the notion that someone other than me might be eating the Prawn Cocktail-flavoured goodness.<\/p>\n Could I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been for a walk around the green – to give myself that ‘break’ from staring at the monitor that one is supposed to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}