Diary Monday 12th June 2017

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Quite a busy day – my last full day in Preston before visiting Manchester from tomorrow. I had to report to the welfare people this morning, just a week after my last signing on. They dislike my journey keeping me out of their reach for nearly three weeks. My own advisor had told me he wasn’t free and I had to see another advisor this morning. A soon as I arrived I saw that my usual advisor had no clients at his desk. The lady standing in for him consulted with him and as I was leaving he called me over to book my next appointment, so he might as well have talked to me himself and not wasted her time or mine. He insists on our next appointment being by mobile phone during my break. He has arranged it for just two days before I’m due home anyway. Back home I had to then phone Welfare to report the earnings expected for my Manchester house-minding. They can’t just sort this out at the office. As a rarity they patched me through quickly rather than leaving me on hold for a long time. Later, a friend wrote a scathing review of a Dr Who episode I enjoyed. He went as far as to accuse the episode author of being a Fascist. I told him I felt he was over-reacting and trying to be too political about a show that was primarily hokum entertainment. He turned on me with accusations of me believing false histories and practically made me out to be a Fascist too, and then shut down the discussion to deny me any reply. Pathetic. I packed for my break and relaxed for the evening. Arthur Chappell