The plan for today was
originally to be a walk around the Biggin Hill area. Periodically I
organise a walk for a time and a place that suits me (because I'm
selfish like that) and open it up to whoever is up for it. I do
it as a Facebook event as that way people can use the page as a way
to communicate about the walk. Sometimes people can do it, sometimes
not. Being a Bank Holiday today there were over twenty people signed
up for it.
Last night I posted on
the Facebook event page that the weather was looking iffy. Despite
four pints of ale last night I was still awake before 7am this
morning. So I got up and checked the weather forecast for Biggin
Hill. Heavy rain was forecast until mid afternoon, and then lighter
rain for the rest of the day. Bearing in mind how wet I got when
walking Fudge round the roads for just an hour or so last Monday I
decided to back out of today's walk. I posted that on-line and went
back to bed.
I was woken a couple of
hours later by the first thunderstorm. I say "first";
it was the first that I'd heard. Apparently I'd slept through others
in the night. So I got up and over a spot of second brekkie I checked
out the Internet. Pretty much everyone else had backed out of today's
planned walk except one brave soul who'd not checked the Facebook
event page. Woops!
By mid morning the rain
had abated somewhat so I took "Furry Face TM"
round the block. We only went round to The Riverside and back via the
horses; a fifteen minute walk, but in that time the little dog got
soaked from the wet grass. And within ten minutes of us getting home
so the torrential rain started again.
I spent the remainer of
the morning putting the finishing touches to my latest Wherigo. I've
even added the World's Sexiest Hat into it seeing how the actual hat
has vanished. (I suspect foul play!)
With no real plans for
the day we went out for lunch. I know that McDonald's isn't
everyone's idea of fine dining, but compared to most other places,
the food arrives quicker, tastes better and is cheaper. It always
amazes me that the place's most implaccable critics have never
actually eaten there; prefering to beleive the urban myths.
With McDonald's scoffed
we then did the old people's thing of going to a garden centre. It
will soon be "My Boy TM"'s
birthday and for his birthday he wanted a phormium.
Apparently a phormium is some sort of reed-like plant. To me all the
plants at the garden centre looked the same. They were all green and
leafy. I couldn't tell one from the next. Or that was until I met
Dave. I brought Dave home with me; he now has his
own Facebook page. Dave is a monkey puzzle tree. He's currently
in a flower pot in the back garden; I need to find a huge pot and
relocate him to the front garden.
I then spent a little
while looking at ordnance survey maps planning a walk for tomorrow. I
missed going for a good walk today; the weather forecast for tomorrow
is much better.
And finding myself "home
alone" yet again I settled down in front of the telly... it
doesn't watch itself.
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