6 April 2025 (Sunday) - Tidying The Shed

I had another restless night. I blame the KFC we had last night – I’m always incredibly thirsty for a day or so after having any of that stuff. I gave up trying to sleep and got up. Bailey soon followed me and wanted to go out. She went and started eating grass, then as I scoffed toast she sat on the sofa farting and periodically whimpering. She’s only herself to blame; she will eat crap (figuratively and literally) but you can’t explain that to a small dog.
I put a load of washing in to scrub, and as I scoffed toast I saw some Facebook friends had birthdays today. A distant relative in Canada, a fellow hunter of Tupperware, and two colleagues. One of those colleagues was doing a sponsored run today to raise money for stroke charities; another colleague had a massive stroke a few months ago. Only thirty years old and in good health, one day this lady didn’t show up for work and wasn’t answering her phone. Colleagues popped round to her house and found her in bed unable to move. Strokes can happen to anyone; not just the old and infirm.
 
I saw there was a new geocache about twenty minutes’ drive away. A follow hunter of Tupperware had already found it. From what I could see on-line he’d had the same notification that I’d had, run out of the door and driven like a thing possessed, managed to park and find the thing all in less than half an hour.
I munzed and started off on Wordle with “spicy” to find that only the middle letter was correct, but that was in the wrong place. “Field” gave me two correct letters, and both in the right place. And then I was stuck.
Eventually I hit on “villa” - go me.
 
I went into the garden and got busy. I hung the washing out, then painted up the cover I’d built for the little pond. Then emptied out the garden lock-up, and re-packed it. I painted the stand from which the bird feeder hangs. I emptied the shed and tidied up, I had this idea to make some order out of the place. I found so many identical drill bits. Having used one I’d put it in some random place in the shed, lost it and then bought another. I found about a dozen new and unused paint brushes. And jubilee clips – I found half a dozen packets of the things.
I loaded a bootful of rubbish into the  back of the car, and booked a tip slot for the morning,
 
We then took littlun to the park. Whilst her and her mother made new friends at the play park, “er indoors TM and I sparked up our Munzee apps and went on a virtual shooting star hunt.
We came home for a cuppa, and I saw something sad on Facebook. A chap I’ve known for ten years has quite serious cancer. He’d like to go panning for gold to get enough to make wedding rings for his daughters before he dies… there’s a fundraiser to try to help him do this. You can donate by clicking here.
 
“er indoors TM boiled us up some pork chops with all the rest of a roast dinner. Littlun ate most of hers apart from that which she declared was “gross”.
My face is glowing; I caught the sun today. And I’ve got backache. Again.

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