In a novel break with
tradition I slept through to 7.40am this morning. Absolutely unheard of. I had
a quick spot of brekkie, and on hearing that “Daddy’s Little Angel TM
” was not visiting today I popped the lead onto Fudge and we set off on
today’s Fudgey Adventure.
Regular readers of this drivel may recall
that six months ago I hid a series of geocaches on the footpaths between
Sevington and Mersham. They act as waypoints on a guided walk through some
rather scenic countryside. I put them out hoping that other people might enjoy
the walk. To date they have been visited by over sixty different people. And
seeing that it is six months since they went out, and bearing in mind I had a
report that one of them had a full log, I thought I’d do cache maintenance
today. That entailed visiting each cache, checking it was still there, changing
the paper log, and making sure the hide was good. When I hid the caches last
March there was thick snow on the ground. Today was glorious sunshine. But the
series did for me that which I intended it to do for others. It marked out a
very good walk. Me and my dog had a couple of hours out in the sunshine.
Fiddling about with plastic boxes was just an extra.
On the
way home I popped off to find a cache for the day. Having found one every day
in August I have this plan to see how long a “finding streak” I can manage. So far I have found a cache every day
for the last thirty five days. And having got home I checked my emails only to
find that I’d been within yards of a newly released geocache whilst I was out.
I zoomed back out and again failed
spectacularly in my effort to be First to Find.
And so home again
where I got the washing onto the line to dry. ‘er indoors TM arrived, and left. She had the afternoon off
work to visit family for a barbecue. I would like to have gone along, but I had
chores to do at home. Or I would have once assistance arrived. While I waited
for assistance to arrive I ironed shirts and made a start on my latest on-line
course.
I had enrolled in a course on Mathematical
Philosophy which started a few weeks ago. I un-enrolled form that course last
week. It was dull. Dull in the extreme. There was a very earnest German
gentleman who was taking great trouble to prove the blatantly obvious. I really
couldn’t stay awake though any of the lectures. And all of the lectures seemed
the same – going into extreme detail in set theory to prove that which any
reasonable person could see was self-evident. Perhaps it wasn’t self-evident.
Perhaps my degree in maths isn’t as buried at the back of my mind as I thought
it was. In any case I studied maths at degree level for five years. I’ve done
that. With Coursera I want to learn new things.
Today I started Dino 101 an introduction not just to dinosaurs, but to
paleontology, biology and geology. Well, at the risk of sounding egocentric I’m
no stranger to biology, but the rest is relatively new to me. So far the
lectures have kept me awake.
“My Boy TM ” arrived, and so I was
able to get on with chores for which I needed help. First of all we got the top
box off of my car for the winter. And then we looked at the back fence. It has
developed a hole through which Furry Face TM escapes and
terrorises the natives. We bodged a fix temporarily, but it is only a bodge,
and a temporary one at that. Especially loyal readers of this drivel may recall
me building that fence. Anyone else might like to call up the report on the day
by clicking here and
calling up October 2006. That’s where today’s photo comoes from.
I built that fence on Sunday October 8 2006,
the day after I (allegedly) downed
twenty one pints of London Pride.
It’s lasted seven years. I would have liked
longer. But it needs repair. Or replacement. If any of my loyal readers have
any fence panels they don’t want, or can get jiggy with a shovel I’m looking at
doing the fixing a week this coming Sunday. Feel free to join in…
The provisional plan is:
- 1 - remove all the shingle near the fence
- 2 - pull back the membranes
- 3 - dig out *loads* of soil
- 4 - check out the status of the existing posts
- 5 - put in new fence panels
- 6 - re-landsape accordingly
It will be hard work so if anyone wants to
help, or better still do the hard work for me, please feel free to join in. We
might just have a barby afterwards.
And with ‘er
indoors TM still out I
felt peckish so I foraged for tea. In the diection of the KFC. The “Mega
Bucket for One” looked interesting…
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