I slept well despite the heat. I got up and checked the
pond. The water level was holding; I’m pretty sure that by bypassing the bog
filter and the water level being OK I’ve established where the issue is.
As I checked the pond I had a chuckle. I heard the sound of
a door opening. Not-so-nice-next-door came out into her back garden,
stopped, closed and locked the door. When I go into the back garden I leave the
back door open. She never does. The door is open just long enough for her to
slip through, then it is closed and locked. I’ve never seen that door left
open. What’s that all about?
I made toast and had a look at a dull internet. I saw our
new MP had made a mistake. He’d made great show of writing a letter to the head
honcho of the local hospital complaining about the parking charges, and pointed
out that other hospitals in Kent don’t charge patients and visitors for
parking. It was a shame that he was wrong, and the other hospitals *do* charge for parking. It’s a
silly mistake that he could have avoided by a couple of seconds on Google. As
a life-long leftie I must admit that finally having a Labour MP has been
something of a disappointment.
I munzed, and got Wordle (oddly) on the last
attempt. And once the dogs were breakfasted we went for a little walk.
As we drove the pundits on the radio were interviewing the
Foreign Secretary. The Foreign Secretary was asked a straight question – had
the Americans acted in accordance with international law or illegally in their recent attack on Iran. A straight
question – yes or no. The chap flatly refused to answer.
Pogo was with us today – he is funny. As we drove into the
car park at the woods so he started squealing in excitement. And as we walked
round the woods so Pogo was shouting at the bigger dogs… until he realized that
the bigger dogs were friends with our three dogs that he thought he was
protecting. You could see his embarrassment when he realized that we were all
friends, and he would then join in the sniffing and general saying hello.
As we walked we rolled in fox poo and ate dead mice. There
were quite a few dead mice today – had the recent heatwave done for them? And
we saw two deer as well. Two together, which was unusual. We either see deer on
their own or in a herd. Just seeing two was strange.
We walked a different route to our usual one; with reports
of two of my geocaches being missing I went and had a look. One was missing;
one was still there.
We walked more than usual today – fourteen thousand steps
over six and a half miles
I came home, Bailey had a bath, and I ran “Daddies’
Little Angel TM” and Pogo home, then took Bailey to the
Doggy Dentist. She didn’t like it; we had quite the fight. Her back teeth are
good – her front ones not so good. Crunching the chicken’s feet is working for
the back teeth; I need to be better at brushing her front teeth myself.
We went on to the garden centre to get a big pond plant
pot. There was a minor incident at the checkout; the woman on the till thought
one of the pots someone was buying was overpriced. And on finding that it was
priced correctly she then had quite the rant about how expensive the pot was.
.
Once home again I had another look at the pond. I stripped
out about two thirds of the plants in the bog filter. Some went straight into
the green waste bin. Some sort-of survived and I’ve transplanted some of those
into the main pond and some into a big bucket. They might survive; they might
not. The water in the bog filter is flowing much better now, but there’s not
the depth in there that there might be. Perhaps over the winter I might add
another layer of sleepers just to allow for root growth.
Mind you I’m still hoping that it was massive root
overgrowth causing the thing to overflow which was the issue and not a leak. We
shall see.
I had a text from the doctor. She said “Your average
home blood pressure readings are in an optimum range. So, no further action is required at this
stage. Please continue to keep an eye on your blood pressure at home”. I’m
seeing that as a result.
We had pizza for dinner, then went bowling. I watched an
episode of “Orange is the New Black” then had a look at more
geo-puzzles.
Some people simply don’t
want them solved…
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