I slept well for a change. As I scoffed brekkie I saw
something that made me roll my eyes. Someone was commenting on Facebook about
the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie. Someone else was fed up with
people who didn’t know it was actually a TV series, and that person was getting
serious abuse from those who maintained it was originally a series of books (a
trilogy in four parts – later six). No one seemed to realise it all started
as a radio show.
I Munzed, got Wordle (knell) on the fifth
attempt, and got ready for the day.
With another hot day forecast I wanted to get the dogs
out early. As we drove the pundits on the radio were talking about the ongoing
conflict in Gaza. Apparently (so it was claimed) a growing proportion of
Israelis feel the war is nothing to do with them and is being staged purely for
political posturing. Are they right? Possibly.
We got to the woods shortly after eight o’clock which
was early for us. We walked our usual circuit. I tried my birdsong app three
times. Every time it only detected pigeons. We covered over four miles and we
only saw two other groups of people; one of which made me chuckle. I’ve
mentioned before how dog tracking apps won’t work in Kings Wood as there’s very
little internet signal. Several people have got round that issue by attaching
bells to their dogs’ collars. We could intermittently hear the bells in the
distance, but the sound might have been echoing and coming from anywhere, to
the dismay of the person whose dog was running riot. I was reminded of my old
tattoo artist friend who got one of these detectors so he could trace his hawk
when it flew off. He detected his hawk… it was on the roof of the nearby school
(which really didn’t help him at all),
As we walked Bailey found a deer’s leg bone, but soon
lost interest in it. Treacle found a dead squirrel and carried it for two miles
all the way back to the car; clearly very pleased with herself.
We came home via the town centre where I Munzed a
little more; we need the points this month. I had a quick cuppa then cracked on
with my plan for today.
The other day I revamped the rockery as I rebuilt the
walls of the bog filter. Earlier in the year I’d put rockery plants into little
plastic planters around the rockery, but they never really worked as they were
added as an afterthought, they were too small and dried out too easily. A few
weeks ago “My
Boy TM” came round with quite a few old timbers
he didn’t need and wondered if I might like them.
I took two of them this morning, sawed them into shape and
built a little planter which was just the right size to fit on the side of the
bog filter and hold the liner in place. I quite like sawing and drilling… I
keep saying that I should take a course in carpentry. Sadly when I was younger
I was told that (being at a grammar school) I was far too clever to do
anything practical. So rather than being taught carpentry I was taught Latin;
over the years my “O” level in Latin has proved to be utterly useless to me.
I got the box of the planter to shape, dobbed on some
wood paint and whilst it dried I had a spot of lunch (two carrots and some
garlic sauce stuff I found in the fridge) and watched an episode of “Orange
is the New Black”. And with telly watched I lined the planter with some
garden membrane and painted it again before watching a bit more telly.
Once the paint had dried I put the new planter in
place and put one of the rockery plants in it, and (flushed with success)
I sawed up another two timbers to size, made them into the sides of another new
planter and got those painted. I stopped at that point; I was hurting.
I came in and wrote up some
CPD, and decided that I might as well crack on with the
next planter. I got the thing built and got a second coat of paint onto it.
Once that is dry I shall line it then put it in place on the other side of the
pond to where the first one went.
“er indoors TM” boiled
up burger and chips which we scoffed whilst watching this week’s episode of “Star
Trek: Strange New Worlds” which was one of the best episodes of Star Trek
for many years.
Such a shame that this season is over half-way done…
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