I woke about five o’clock and did that thing where I lay
half awake and half asleep in desperate need of the loo. Had I got up and gone
to the loo I could have gone back to bed and back to sleep, but I didn’t.
Eventually I got up at the sound of Morgan jumping off the bed. I got up, and
he immediately jumped back on to the bed and into the warm spot I’d just left.
I made toast and had my usual look at the Internet. Prince
William was getting a load of stick on Facebook as his dog has had puppies. Like
anyone under public scrutiny Prince William is in a no-win position. There will
always be someone looking to find fault with whatever he does.
There was a lot of fussing on the Romney Marsh Facebook
page where someone had found a dog.
And those whose life is a relative bed of roses were
posting twee motivational memes.
I munzed, got Wordle (stump) on the third attempt,
and got ready for the day.
Yesterday I’d had the offer for a day’s geocaching in
Edenbridge, but it would have been a tad hot. Today we could have gone to
Milton Keynes for the Great British Geocaching Party. That was
my plan for today. We would get out of Dog Club promptly, drive off, and be
there by late morning… or so I thought until I looked at Google maps to plan
the route. Getting there would have been a two and a half hour drive.
I sighed. I’d been looking forward to going to that.
As we got organized this morning Steve was on the radio
doing the “Guess the Lyrics” competition. “"Forget your sorrow,
let it all fade away. Forget tomorrow, let's start living for today". No
– I had no idea either. It was "Music and Lights" by
Imagination… apparently.
Dog Club was fun today. It usually is. We had the usual dog
mayhem. One of our younger dog herders had a little camera which printed black
and white low-res photos. They were surprisingly good photos
From Dog Club we drove out to Canterbury. We only needed to
get one more geocaching Planets treasure, but you have to find a very specific
sort of geocache to get the treasure. I’d seen there was one in Nackington, and
there were two other caches that we would be going past. I thought it might
make for a decent short walk on a warm day; it was a walk of half a mile which
was plenty long enough for today.
On our way we tried to listen to Steve doing the Mystery
Year competition on the radio, but there was some technical issue on the radio.
The signal kept cutting out which was a nuisance. Trying to work out what the
year is has become good fun; even more so now that the contest runs a little
later and we get more of a chance after Dog Club. We eventually heard enough to
realise it was 1985 today.
As we drove home so my phone beeped with news of a new geocache
near Ruckinge. Had we been at home when we had the news we would have been
first ones to find it. As we were in Canterbury we were beaten to it. Ho hum…
We came home for coffee and cake, and then had a rather
dull afternoon. It was too hot to do anything so we sat in the garden and I
alternated between Kindle, flicking through Facebook on my phone and sleeping.
Despite the heat it would seem people were doing stuff
though. Several friends with only one friend in common (me) were off to
London to see Iron Maiden. Other friends were at Glastonbury. Personally I
couldn’t imagine anything worse than going off on a hot day to deliberately get
a headache, but what do I know?
“er indoors TM” boiled up a
decent chili which we scoffed whilst watching a couple of episodes of the (relatively)
new series of “Quantum Leap”. They were rather good.
We then had a look at what else was on the Paramount Plus channel.
There was quite a lot actually. But the trouble with Paramount Plus is that you
can’t fast-forward through the adverts. Which is a dilemma for the advertisers.
Do you fast-forward through the adverts and not see them? Or do you make a note
of what you are being forced to watch and make a point of not buying those
products on principle?
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