Having had three days of
glorious weather whilst I was working I had great plans for today. So
you can imagine my reaction when I woke to torrential rain. The rain
showed no signs of abating, so I settled down to laundry and dull
homework. I also did the monthly accounts which didn't depress me
quite as much as I thought it might.
By mid day the rain had
abated somewhat so I finally got to take Furry Face for his walk.
Whilst out I trued for a nearby geocache which had gone live two days
ago. The watchword of geocaching is "stealth", so
with Fudge noisily trying to pick a fight with every dog for miles
around I gave up. We came home through Frog's Island where I left
Furry Face off of his lead and he made a nuisance of himself with the
nice people trying to train their dog.
As the rains started
again we came home and I spent most of the afternoon ironing shirts
whilst watching Babylon 5 DVDs. I left for astro club perhaps earlier
than I might have done; there were a couple of geocaches on the way
that weren't going to find themselves. Both were out of the ordinary;
one being quite unique.
I had a shock when I
pulled up at the car park in Woodchurch. Fudge was running across the
field. I looked again; it was my dog. He had a very distinctive
shape, and it looked just like him. Panic set in. It was only when I
went across the field to him that I noticed the white patch on the
dog's chest. It wasn't Fudge, but it could have been his brother. I
got chatting with the dog's owner; he too had never encountered
another Patagonian Tripe-Hound. His dog also had been a rescued one.
And so to astro club.
With an excellent turn-out of over sixty people we had a really good
talk about the Voyager missions. I learned loads; and after I hawked
the raffle we had a stellarium show of the spring stars. Ironically
the clouds parted just as we were going home and I drove home under
a clear sky.
We then watched "Big
Bang Theory" for an hour or so whilst scoffing prawn
crackers. I wonder if the other Patagonian Tripe-Hound likes prawn
crackers quite as much as my one seems to...
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