Over brekkie I watched
the last episode of "Bob
Servant - Independent" which I'd recorded onto the
SkyPlus box a while ago. The reviews had been good, and it was
rather watch-able I suppose. But it wasn't the best show I've ever
seen. I don't think I'll bother with the re-runs. As I watched it I
had a snoring small dog sprawled out on my lap. He wasn't impressed
with Bob Servant either.
I then had a quick look
on line to see if I could find a geocache on my way to work. There
was one at Boughton Aluph church (hidden by my beloved as a matter
of fact). It was a multi-cache in that the clue took me to a
notice board where I had to get the vicar's phone number and then do
some sums with that phone number to get the longitude and latitude
for the cache. Being a lazy beggar I looked up the vicar's number on
the internet and set NeonGeo to take me straight to the cache.
As I parked the car I
could see the obvious target a hundred yards away - a huge tree. As I
got closer my sat-nav angled me away from the tree into a random
hedge. After some fannying about I decided I was in the wrong place.
I had checked my sums at home several times so the obvious problem
was that I had probably had got the vicar's phone number wrong. I
went to the notice board and recalculated. No - I had the number and
my sums right. So I tried again and giving up with sat-nav and
looking for where I would hide the cache I eventually found it some
fifteen metres away from where my phone was telling me.
Do I dare tell the cache
owner (!)
I must admit to having
had a snigger about the vicar in question at this church. Look him up
for yourself in Google - he really is the Reverend Ravi Holy. He
either didn't think it through or he thinks it is a great joke. With
the ease of deed polls no one would choose to be the Reverend Ravioli
would they?
There was another cache I
might have picked up on the way to work, but I had spent rather
longer than I had intended at Boughton Aluph so I went straight to
work. As I drove I listened to the church service on the radio as I
do when working on a Sunday. Today's service was odd; it was
broadcast from a cathedral in Oxford and was celebrating two hundred
years of Grimm's fairy stories. This struck me as a rather strange
thing for a cathedral to be celebrating; especially as the actual
anniversary was some months ago. But it was an Anglican service and
it's been my experience that they will witter on about absolutely
anything in order to sound popular and to curry favour with the
masses. That's why I'm leaning more and more to Catholicism. They
stick to what they beleive; no matter how unpopular they feel their
beleifs might be.
As I drove I also looked
longingly at the weather. It was a beautiful morning. Had I not been
working this weekend I'd had the offer of a weekend's camping at
Dover with the county's geocachers. Much as it looked like a good
idea as I was driving in my warm car at 8am, it had been rather nippy
whilst I'd been rooting round the church a few minutes previously.
And reading the comments on social media it seemed that the campers
had experienced hail and sleet yesterday. I think I shall stick with
my general prejudice of never going camping before the end of May -
it's always too cold. And as the day wore on so the rain came down as
well.
I had a phone call during
the morning. Regular readers of this drivel may recall that the er
indoors TM"-mobile west belly-up
during the week. Having shelled out good money to get the thing
fixed, neither of us were especially impressed when it died again
today. It's going at the moment, but it remains to be seen for how
much longer.
Having done my bit at
work I came home. It was somewhat frustrating to find that half an
hour after I'd arrived at work a new geocache had gone live; one I'd
actually driven past on my way in to work this morning. Had the
reviewer got out of bed just a little earlier I might have had a
First to Find.
It was even more
frustrating to find that this cache remained unfound for most of the
day; only being found just as I was about to leave work.
And so home where we
watched yesterday's episode of "Doctor Who". Last
week I was rather disparaging about the show. This most recent
episode was actually rather good. I like the latest cyber-redesign
and the new cybermats we good too. A plot might have been good, but
the episode worked without one...
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