I had something of a lie-in this morning; By the time “er
indoors TM” got home from her Margate adventure last
night it was getting on for one o’clock.
I didn’t do toast this morning. Instead I sat and had a go
at some geo-puzzles. There’s one near where we had
yesterday’s meet. Ostensibly about cabbages, it has had me struggling for over
a year. I got a little pointer yesterday and this morning I finally got the
thumbs-up from the checker.
I munzed, got wordle on the fourth attempt, and had another
look at the geo-puzzle that went live for
yesterday’s meet. There had been a minor cock-up with the publication of that
puzzle. When it was sent in to the geo-feds it read “All you have to do to
find the cache is to solve this puzzle N51 15.ABC E001 15.DEF” and this was followed by
pictures of pigs labelled A to F. However the pictures of pigs never appeared
in the published puzzle. I got to the meet early yesterday and started looking
for six-digit strings of numbers. I found them on the date the pub was built,
on the fire alarm… Had I pressed the “refresh” button on my app I would
have seen that the error had been spotted and corrected. Eventually once I was
pointed at the right website I figured out what I was supposed to be doing to
solve it.
“My Boy TM” called round and
we went to McDonalds for a Father’s Day McMuffin. The local cafes were crowded
out for Father's Day brekkies, but McDonalds was all but empty.
We came home for a cuppa and looked into the pond. “My
Boy TM” pointed out that the biggest Koi was looking
rather thin and ill. I suppose seeing him every day I’d not noticed, but he
don’t look well.
We then went out for a little walk. We wanted somewhere
shaded as the forecast was for a hot day, and somewhere with a series of
geocaches that met the specific requirements for the new “Event Mementoes” series of
Treasures. The “Another Crockham Wood
Trek” series looked as though it would fit the bill.
It did.
We had a rather good walk. The paths were a bit vague (non-existent)
in parts. The geocaches weren’t that easy to find. Treacle wallowed in a
stagnant ditch, and we took no chances and kept Morgan and Bailey on their
leads. But we walked a rather good (if hilly) three miles over two
hours.
As I walked I had my birdsong app running. It didn’t detect
any ducks today, and it detected ten more species of bird at the western edge
of the wood compared to the eastern edge. Birds can be very locallised things.
I
took some photos as we walked.
We came home via a frankly stupid route at the end of which
we decided that the sat-nav in “er indoors TM”’s car has
had its chance and blown it. But once home we had a rather good hour or so
sitting in the garden. I put so much time and effort into the garden it would
be a shame not to enjoy it from time to time.
“er indoors TM” went and had a
little lie down. I spent a while struggling with more geo-puzzles.
We had a rather good dinner of pork chops whilst watching “Taskmaster”.
I’m feeling washed out; a late night last night, possibly too much sun this
weekend… The forecast is for a little less sun tomorrow. We shall see.
It still seems odd not going to see my dad…
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