I had a rather good nights sleep for once; it was a
shame that the bin men had to make quite so much noise when they came up the
road at six o’clock. Some people really do have this mind-set that if they are
up then everyone else should be up too.
I made toast and had my usual look at the Internet.
Someone was asking the pond groups on Facebook about how to get clear water in
their pond. And as always there was as many answers as there were people to
give them. The “change the water regularly” brigade were out in force today
with a theory that you should save rain water in huge tubs which you leave to
go stagnant and green, and then half-empty your pond and use this muck to top
up your pond. So many people were adamant that this was a good idea; not one
was able to explain why it wasn’t a silly idea.
And then I had an email
- a notification about a new geocache half a mile up the road…With everyone
else fast asleep I hopped into the car and voomed up the road. Parking where I
probably shouldn’t have I had a quick search and soon had the thing in my hand.
First one to find it – result !!! I’m actually amazed I found it so quickly – I
could imagine this one being rather tricky.
And with that little
excitement done it was time for dog walk. The dogs had got up by the time I got
home.
We went down to
Orlestone where we had a good walk. We met two other dog walkers. The first
bloke was one big bundle of stress. On turning the corner and seeing us he was
all “ohmygod ohmygod” and trying to get his dogs onto their leads for no
reason that I could fathom, as his dogs and mine were all saying hello nicely
as dogs do. The chap was still panicking and faffing with leads when we were
fifty yards past him.
The second chap said
hello and our dogs all ran up to each other and had a little game.
It is nearly always the
people and very rarely the dogs that cause any episodes.
But once we were past
the second bloke we walked for two more miles and didn’t see anyone. Unusually
my app detected five different sorts of birds today.
As we walked I passed
the six thousand steps mark. I do that most days… my watch told me I’ve done it
every day for the last three weeks which was something of a milestone.
As we drove home the
pundits on the radio were talking about how your subjective age is different to
your actual age and explains why some people are decrepit in their mid-thirties
whilst others (like me) walk miles every day. Once home I tried to
calculate my subjective age, but every calculator I could find wanted my email
address and wanted to bombard me with spam.
I did find the NHS heart age calculator though. Apparently my
heart is five years older than the rest of me.
I Munzed; our clan has reached the second of our
monthly targets. I got Wordle (level) on the fifth attempt. I did
some CPD, I did a YouGov survey,
I set off to work…
And as is so often the way when on the late shift, the
day was practically over before noon…
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