I woke in the small hours and put a load of washing
in. When I got up properly I hung it out. Not-so-nice-next-door was
messing about in her back garden at half past six. And as always she made sure
her back door was firmly locked behind her when she came out. Who does she
think is going to get in through the back door when she is only ten yards away,
and it’s not practical to get into her garden anyway?
I made toast and had a look at the Internet. There was
a note on that puzzle geocache that I’ve been looking
at for over a week. With not a single person having solved it, a clue has been
added. It’s a shame that the clue didn’t help me at all… But I saw a series of
nearly forty Harry Potter themed puzzle geocaches had gone live just north of
Folkestone. At first glance they appeared to be solve-able. I decided to waste
my time on those ones instead.
Today’s on-line argument was on one of the sci-fi
Facebook pages which had wished George
Takei a happy birthday… no end of people were pointing out
that his birthday is in April.
I took the dogs out earlier than usual today. As we
drove the pundits on the radio were interviewing ex-Prime
Minister Gordon Brown. I always find the
chap incredibly dull, so I turned the radio off and sang along to Ivor Biggun
songs instead.
We got to the woods to find the car park nearly empty.
That came as a relief; Having had several set-tos with several normal people on
Tuesday I was hoping to avoid them today. And, just to be sure, we took a
different route to usual today and followed the smaller and lesser-walked
tracks. My plan worked. We walked for four and three quarter miles and as we
went round we only saw two other groups and both of them were as we came back
to the car park.
As we walked I tried my “Map My Walk” app. The
app works, but it doesn’t seem to be sending the information to the “Map My
Walk” website. Ho hum…
We came home. As we came round the tank roundabout I
had to emergency stop to avoid a
purple VW Polo whose driver wasn’t content with dangerously cutting in on
the inside, so went on to wind down the window and give me the "V"
sign.
Once home I made myself a cuppa and had a little
pootle in the garden as some shirts washed, and after a pot noodle for lunch I
had a little (two hours) ironing session before sitting in a dining
chair and having a twenty-minute workout.
I then made myself another cuppa and made a start on the
Harry Potter puzzles I’d seen earlier.
As I puzzled I told the Alexa to play music by Kate Bush. It started off with “Them
Heavy People” then went into a rather eclectic medley featuring Pet Shop
Boys, the Communards, E.L.O. and Sparks with only occasional contributions from
Kate Bush.
And with half of the Harry Potter puzzles solved I realised
how I might solve that puzzle geocache that I’ve been looking
at for over a week. I tried my theory, got the thumbs-up from the checker, and
I could see I was the first one to get the right answer.
Leaving “er indoors TM” and “Daddies’
Little Angel TM” in charge at home I drove out to… I won’t
say where I drove to, but I got to where I that cache was, and I soon had it in
hand. And I was First to Find too. After ten days’ brain straining I was rather
pleased to find it and felt rather smug too. It was a long way to go, but
getting FTF on this one will give me serious bragging rights amongst the other
members of the Ancient and Honorable Guild of Hunters of Tupperware… once they
notice I’ve found it.
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