I woke a few times in the night; finally getting up at
seven o’clock. I made toast and had a look at the Internet. It was still there.
A couple of friends had posted photos of what they had done over the weekend.
Another had been to a theme park and hidden little toy ducks for children to
find… and had been lambasted on social media for doing so. She seemed rather
upset by this. Sadly no good deed ever goes unpunished. But this is social
media in action. Generally these sort of comments come from people who are too
nasty to do anything decent themselves, too stupid to write a coherent sentence
on social media, and too cowardly to actually say anything in person.
And there was a question on one of the work-related
pages asking about how often anyone might give blood. Answers ranged from every
few weeks to once a year. Reading these replies, the answer could have been
absolutely anything. Students reading anything work-related on-line need to be
very wary... for every correct bit of information there's several that are just
wrong.
I Munzed not only did I get given fifty zeds (worth
about forty pence), I got a mini greeterbot (result!) and our clan
has reached the first of our monthly clan war targets. And I got Wordle (south)
on the third attempt.
I took the dogs out. We went to Orlestone for a
shorter walk. We had a good walk. Pogo was with us and he taught everyone else
how to tiddle on other dogs’ tiddle. We had a funny five minutes where all four
dogs tiddled at least twice on the same spot until I chased them all off of it.
As we walked we took a different route; the walk at
Orlestone isn’t long so I had this idea of combining some of the routes there
to make a much longer walk. I managed to add about three quarters of a mile
onto our usual trek round there.
It was only a shame that Pogo and Treacle had to go
straight into the deep puddle right at the end of the walk. Once home they had
a bath.
I then went round the edges of the lawn with the
strimmer, and went over the lawn with the lawn mower, then had a go at the
patio with the bionic burner before making us a cuppa.
I ran Pogo and his entourage home, then took a
circuitous route home via the first of the Harry Potter geocaches that went
live last week. The idea is that as you go round you play a sort of game of
Cluedo, and the sheets you need are all in the first cache. I thought I’d get
one before they either ran out or went damp and got mouldy.
Once back home I cleaned out the pond filter, and had
a little look at the bog filter. I need to add another layer of sleepers as it
doesn’t take much for the thing to overflow. I had a look on Wickes website –
the sleepers were six quid cheaper (each) than what they were this time
last year. I zoomed round to Wickes and got the last three. It was a shame that
as I loaded them into the car I managed to break my long-handled snow scraper,
but there it is.
I brought them home, had a quick measure-up and sawed
them to shape. Sawing sleepers is hard work. And once sawed I gave them a quick
coat of paint.
I made a cuppa, wrote up some
CPD, and woke up over an hour later.
I’ve had a headache all day. I blame the heat…
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