I made my usual toast for brekkie (two hundred and
seventy eight calories) and had a look at the Internet.
As I peered into Facebook this morning I was invited to sign a petition demanding
that an ice-skating rink be established in Ashford. The petition is rather
interesting in that for all that it demands that an ice-skating rink be
established in Ashford it is utterly silent on who it is demanding it from. I’d
suggest that the local council have far more important things to spend their (our)
money on – flood defences on the river by Asda immediately springs to mind.
Setting up an ice rink is surely something for private enterprise, isn’t it? I
can’t help but think that if there were money to be made from such a venture,
someone would already be making it.
And there were calls for the Eurostar to stop at Ashford
again. It used to stop. But not enough people got on or off at Ashford to make
it worthwhile having the station open.
With rain forecast for later in the day I was keen to make
an early start so I took the dogs out. As we drove the pundits on the radio
were talking about the war in Ukraine. It is still going on despite not a lot
of news coverage these days. It was suggested that the Western world has better
things to spend its money on rather than financing a war which is nothing to do
with them. It was also suggested that the Russian economy is in a bit of a
state. It was claimed that both sides are looking for a way to end it all
without losing face. Which is sadly what has probably been the case for quite
some time.
As we’d driven so the drizzle had started. It ended as we
got to the woods. I wanted to check out the last few locations for my ongoing
geo-project. I had this idea that the last bit to check would make for a
shorter walk, but we ended up walking about quarter of a mile more than we
usually do. But I did that which I needed to do, and the dogs had a good outing
too. It was a shame that Bailey had to roll in fox poo, but that’s what she
does.
Despite the weather forecast we walked four miles with no
rain. We came home for a bath: all the dogs were filthy; being low to the
ground they do collect the mud. And with dogs bathed I cleaned out the bathroom
shelf tray thingy. Someone hadn’t secured the lid of the dog shampoo bottle
after their last scrub and it had filled the shelf tray thingy. I then ran
round with the hoover… and then took a Stanley knife to the thing’s roller
which was tangled up with cotton and string.
By the time I’d cleaned out the washing machine’s fabric
conditioner tray and put in another washload I was worn out.
I updated my Kings Wood geo-database with what I’d done
this morning then sorted myself a light lunch. In the past when “er
indoors TM” has been in the office I’ve popped over
the shop and got myself a lunch of a bag of Doritos, a pot of dip and a can of
Tizer. Today I had a cup of coffee and a mince pie which was almost exactly one
thousand calories less. That’s the trick to weight loss – just be aware of
exactly what you are shoving down your neck.
I spent three more hours writing up Wherigo and geocache
pages. I’m now at the stage where I’ve done all the preliminary location visits
and written everything up. I’ve sent the entire lot to the reviewer for him to
give it all a preliminary once-over and if he’s happy I’ve then got to put the
actual caches out. I suspect that will take about five visits to the woods.
“er indoors TM” boiled up six
hundred calories worth of dinner and went off bowling as she does. I sparked up
Netflix and caught up with the antics of the Poldark tribe. The beastly vicar
has croaked. Good.
And in the three weeks that I’ve been going at this diet, I’ve
lost nearly a stone and my blood pressure, whilst still too high, is better
than it has been. Here’s hoping weight and blood pressure carry in subsiding.
And stay subsided. Perhaps if I carry on having a weigh-in every Monday morning
and a blood pressure every Monday evening from here on in I can keep tabs on
myself?
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