I had a better night’s sleep, but was still up too early
this morning. As I scoffed toast I spent a little while struggling with
geo-puzzles in the general vicinity of where we were planning to go today. One particularly gave me
grief. To solve the puzzle I need to identify someone who went to Tonbridge
school a hundred (or so) years ago, who was married three times and
whose father was a wood worker and timber merchant. I kept coming up with the
name “Thomas Smythe” but when you then do the next stage of the puzzle
this gives you a negative latitude.
I then turned my attention to another puzzle for which I’d
convinced myself I needed to identify a road sign or milestone giving the
distance to Godstone or Maidstone. After a lot of fighting with Google Street
View I gave up and went and got ready for the day.
Once “er indoors TM” and the
dogs were sorted we drove round to Dog Club. Attendance was down, but over a
dozen dogs ran riot as only dogs can. We had a great time.
Rather than coming home, from Dog Club we headed to the
motorway and tried not to point and laugh too much at the nice lady walking
along the bypass. She clearly had an itchy back and had unceremoniously hoiked
up her blouse so that her partner could give her back a good scratching.
As we drove up the motorway Steve was on the radio. I’d got
the mystery year right. When did Helen Shaman (the British astronaut) go
up? 1991.
Sadly the radio signal gave out at Harrietsham.
We drove up to Seal where we stopped and got in the way of
everyone who was preparing for some ballet thing at the village hall where we
solved a little geo-puzzle, and from there we took a circuitous route to
Sevenoaks Weald where the monthly geo-meet was taking place.
It really was just like old times.
There were several Adventure Lab caches set up across the
village green, and as we walked about doing those so we met up with no end of
old friends doing the same, and saw quite a few people we’d not seen before who
looked like they were ad-labbing too.
We then adjourned to the pub for the meet itself and caught
up with old friends and met new friends. Several pints, stilton ploughman’s,
and pork scratchings went down very well. And after the fourth pint it was time
for more geo-nonsense. We found a puzzle cache; then went up to the nearby
church for more ad-labbing, then back to the village green for another ad-lab
series we’d missed.
And then we got the news that the motorway was closed.
We came home cross-country and I didn’t sleep the entire
way.
I took a few photos whilst we
were out.
Having had a rather big pub dinner earlier “er
indoors TM” only boiled up a small tea. We scoffed it
whilst watching this evening’s episode of “Doctor Who”. The last few
episodes have been rather good; this evening’s was sadly something of a
disappointment.
I think I caught the sun whilst we were out earlier. And
the fourth pint was arguably a mistake…
Bearing in mind I’ve got to be in work by half past seven
in the morning maybe an early night might be a good idea.
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