When I went to bed last night the weather forecast
said there was zero per cent chance of rain this morning. I woke needing the
loo at three o’clock so I had this idea that if I put a load of washing in, it
would be ready to hang out on the line when I got up. I got up at seven o’clock
to find it was raining.
I hung the wet washing round the radiators, and put
the undercrackers in to wash.
I made toast and had a look at the Internet. Not much
had happened overnight really. It rarely does.
I had a text from the bank. Overnight someone had
tried to take twenty quid from my account from a card I rarely use. Being mean
I account for every penny I spend, and so knew that I’d not spent that.
The bank has cancelled that card and will send me a
new one.
I munzed. The requirements for next month’s munzing Clan
War was out. Each month we group together with other munzers and we get prizes
depending on how many bar codes stuck to lamp posts we scan. There’s six levels
of prizes; level three is easy whilst level four is nigh-on impossible. We tend
to go for level three.
I worrdled… how many words start with “qua”? Loads.
With the rain easing up I took the dogs up to the woods. We
got to the car park and only saw two other cars. The rain had certainly put
people off.
Having had reports of a missing geocache I planned our walk
around that one. We got there to find it was missing. It didn’t take long to
replace, we were in the woods anyway, and the rules do say that it is up to me
(as the person who hid it) to replace it. But if it were me I would have
messaged the one supposedly responsible for the maintenance before I set off.
Was there any maintenance to be done? Did they want any missing caches
replaced? I’d have welcomed someone helping out.
We carried on with our walk. We didn’t see many other
people in the woods, but we saw three Forestry England vans driving about.
As we walked I had my birdsong app going. It detected two
goldcrests, and didn’t think that either was rare (unlike it did on Monday),
but it did detect two new birds (nuthatch and marsh tit). However it claimed
to have detected a swan and totally failed to detect the crow that was
squawking. I can’t help but wonder just how reliable that app is.
It was only a shame that when we got back to the car (after
five and a quarter miles) Bailey’s lead wasn’t round my neck. I wasn’t
going to back-track. Hopefully someone else will find it and add it to the pile
of lost property that is gathering at the car park. Failing that we’ll just use
one of the spare leads.
We came home. I made us a cuppa, then mowed the lawn. And
with the lawn mowed I voomed round with the bionic burner. That thing
does sort the weeds, but you’ve got to be regular with it. The adverts imply
you wave it about once and that’s it. It certainly isn’t.
I then cracked on with the ironing. As I ironed so there
was a knock at the door. The shirts I’d ordered from Amazon had arrived. And
they are going back. They look cheap and dreadful. I ordered two more of the
ones I got from eBay; I like those ones.
Sending the crap shirts back to Amazon was painless. I told
them I didn’t like them. They emailed me a bar code. I took the shirts to the
post office, showed the nice man the bar code on my phone, and that was it.
“er indoors TM” sorted fish and
chips which we scoffed whilst watching this week’s episode of “Race Across the
World”. The race has become rather exciting; having spent last week’s episode
pathetically grizzling, the young girl has got her arse in gear and made great
strides.
And I’ve just had an email. The chap who reported the
missing geocache this morning has now announced that one of my geocaches is
broken and needs replacing… one I walked straight past this morning whilst on
my way to replace the missing one. Such a shame he couldn’t have reported all
the issues at once…
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