Busy day! Usual dog walk, no dramas. Then had to go round my mums as I’d arranged for an aerial bloke to come round and re-do the lot of it. New aerial, three aerial points, splitters sockets etc. all tuned in, perfect picture. She was getting a bad picture when it rained. The cap was off the cover on the original aerial and it was all corroded where the cable connected plug the previous tenant had just twisted the cables together, wrapped plastic around them and left the connection outside on the extension roof under a tile weighted down with a brick. He replaced everything apart from the cable around the chimney. £230 which I didn't think was too bad considering he had to come from Canvey and pay the ULEZ!
While he was doing that, my mum collared me for all the jobs I’d put off which included changing a few bulbs, fitting a new PIR light to the shed, cleaning out the outside sink drain - leaves and gunk and slimey muck, yuk! I also had to pull the tumble drier out and reposition the surface fitted back box and socket as whoever had fitted it had put it in the wrong position - every time her cleaner pushed the tumble drier under the worktop, it hit the switch on the socket and turned it off.
Next, a quick dash up to Lidl in the Golf to pick up my coffee pods. On the way up there, going round a sweeping left hand bend, I was met with a motorbike coming in the other direction on my side of the road so I swerved to the left as much as I thought I could go but clipped the kerb with my rear wheel. Result: One holed tyre. Of course, the bike didn’t stop. Changed the wheel for the skinny spare and carried on. Not too much of a drama though as the rear tyres were just about down to the wear bars so I’m ordering two new ones. They can go on the front and the front wheels can go in the back. I’d have been well pìssed if I was in the A3 - I only fitted a full set a couple of weeks ago at £100 a corner.
Got to Lidl, was going round getting a few extra bits and I saw a bloke crouching down with a pair of scissors, cutting the tags out of joints of meat and putting the joints in his backpack. I went and grassed him up to the security guard, pointed him out and left the guard stalking him as I left. I parked up right outside the door to watch him being apprehended but I think they must have nabbed him inside the store as I got fed up waiting outside after about 10 minutes and my frozen garlic bread was starting to thaw. On the way home, I heard on the news on my local radio station that Lidl were going to supply all their staff with body security cameras because of the losses they were suffering due to theft!