The Caterpillar Crawl

Sigh. Progress today?

Only to miniscule degrees, really. Bought d the latest version of the UK Citizenship Test - I swear no bugger who was born here would pass that bloody thing. Helped my mother with her Welsh homework...does that count as starting to learn a new language? Not really, lacking the concerted effort required, but one thing I've learned is that Welsh as a language has gone to the dogs - or at least the chavs - in the thirty years since I last studied it. Conversational Welsh now appears to have been radically ellided to remove initial, presumably 'confusing' pseudo-vowels (mostly "Y"). Humph...hate the idea that this nation takes this language so unfathomably seriously at the best of times, but that didn't help.

Downloaded a few apps tonight with recipes in (to add of course to d's legion of cookbooks), with the idea of beginning to make some progress on my attempts to learn to cook at least five dishes.

Also, looked up flights for a holiday in January, to a country I've never been before. So, vague and tentative progress there.

Have faced a number of perverse temptations over the last few days. Firstly, as I mentioned at some point earlier, Starbucks launched their "red cup" Christmas flavours the day I swore off chain coffee for a year - thanks for that, guys.

Yesterday, Facebook got in on the Tony-tormenting. The BBC website sent me a notification by email. I am one of the legion of overgrown Doctor Who fans on the planet, and it's celebrating its 50th anniversary in slightly less than a month from now. So the BBC have launched an app that lets you put your name, and your picture, into the title sequence.

Only available through Facebook.

Arse...

What's more, following last night's post, I've just downloaded Spotify to help with the whole Floydathon. But in setting it up, it's talking about 'people to follow'...which makes me worry that it's actually a form of social media. Anyone? Verdict??

So today has been largely a day of caterpillar crawling - progress on a number of fronts...just not very much of it.