The Hodge Blog

Yesterday was a real strange one, at about 11am during our usual unpacking of returns, post, etc. (and we get a lot), we unpacked first a package containing a few hundred lottery tickets, so that needed a phone called to lottery operator Camelot to cancel them, bizarrely these were addressed to us. Next, the crème de la crème of bizarreness, two small cork pin boards taped back-to-back, which when opened, contained 100g of cannabis from Canada! (Then darn Canadians). So that was a call to police, statements, photographs, etc. Wished I’d just got stoned and scratched the cards

Part of the reason you’re only getting ‘on this day’ too is that I am struggling to get the chapters of book edited before Holiday.

On this day…

• Dow Jones publishes it’s first ‘average’ (1884)
• The Mallard beats the World steam locomotive speed record at 126mph (1936)
• 105 hostage rescued at Entebbe (1976)

Hatches, matches, despatches…

• Tom Stoppard born (1937)
• Tom Cruise born (1962)
• André-Gustave Citroën dies (1935)
• Brian Jones (Rolling Stones) dies (1969) (coincidentally buried at same cemetery as grand parents and other relatives in Cheltenham and people still go there today)
• Jim Morrison (The Doors) dies (1971)

It’s also the start of the ‘Dogs Days’

Weather = (It doesn’t get any better and whilst I’ve accepted not selling any heaters last winter, surely global warming should help me sell some of our fans!)

Mood meter = pretty neutral, great day at work yesterday (not), so hopefully better today!