I slept for ten hours last night. I sleep so much better
when I have no alarm set. I made toast and had a look at the Internet as I do
every morning. It was there. Again no one really had seemed to have done very
much. Some days it seems that either no one does anything with their lives, or
if they do they don’t plaster it all over the Internet, or if they do my
lap-top chooses not to tell me. Which is a shame for a very nosey person.
I munzed, got Wordle eventually, and then the dogs came
downstairs. After a night in my pit I am desperate for a wazz. But the dogs are
different. They get up and pootle about. They have to be chased into the garden
and even then they fiddle about before eventually doing anything. I wish I had
the same lack of urgency first thing in the morning – I’d stay in my pit
longer.
I got dressed, put some washing in to scrub… and sulked.
The forecast rain had started. Mind you I was very pleased that the rain didn’t
come yesterday. We were very lucky with the weather for the CITO event and the
geo-meet.
I pootled on-line, wrote up some CPD, and
pondered my next geocaching Adventure Lab cache series. I’ve been given another
five ad-labs. The idea is you find somewhere of local interest with five
specific locations. At each location you set up a question to answer – the name
on a sign, the distance on a milestone, something along those lines. You take
GPS co-ordinates, and set it all up on-line, and it makes a little adventure
for someone else to do. I’ve set up five of these already. One up the main
street in Great Chart finding points of interest, one sight-seeing around
Singleton Lake…
I’ve got another series of five, but I was rather at a
loose end for where I might set them, and what I might have as a theme.
Wherever it is needs Internet connection. I did have a plan for Kings Wood, but
the mobile data up there is patchy at best.
… and then I had a stroke of genius. But I didn’t have time
for it…
Despite the rain we took the dogs to the garden centre. We
couldn’t spend all day stuck indoors; I’d go stir crazy. So we went to the pet
section at Bybrook Barn garden centre to see if we could get Treacle a new
lead. We lost hers yesterday whilst having a litter pick-up. Sadly we couldn’t
find anything but we got a decent fruit cake.
We thought we might come home via Pets At Home to see if
they had any decent leads. They didn’t, but we got some dog treats.
And we took a minor diversion on the way home to implement stage I of my stroke of genius.
One home we had a cuppa, and I carried out stages II and
III my stroke of genius. Starting from up the road near the station you can
walk down Beaver Road, along Denmark Road and into Torrington Road. A fifteen-minute
walk passing the sites of five now-closed-and gone pubs; at each of which you
answer a simple question.
That was stage II.
Having answered those simple questions at each stage you
get given the location of a bonus geocache… that you’ve just walked past.
That was Stage III (Hiding it earlier was stage I)
Writing the cache page and ad-lab pages kept me
quiet for a couple of hours. It’s now down to the geo-feds.
“er indoors TM” boiled up a very
good bit of dinner which we scoffed whilst watching tonight’s episode of “Lego
Masters: Australia”. Both were rather good…
Hope this rain lets up soon…
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