I chuckled as I peered into the Internet this morning.
Last night there had been talk of aurora visible in Ashford, but last night
there was heavy cloud covering the entire sky. A chap I know (who is a
notorious wind-up merchant) posted photos of the aurora from last time and
claimed he’d seen it in Viccie Park last night. And dozens of other people
believed him.
I munzed; crowbar-ing two qrates as one does, and
Wordled my way from ”tired” to “fetch” in four goes.
With heavy rain forecast for mid-morning I took the
dogs out. “Daddies’
Little Angel TM” and Pogo had been up for a sleepover,
so Pogo joined us for our morning walk. We only had a short one today; less
than half of yesterday’s. As we went Pogo screamed at the normal people, and I
screamed at Pogo. He simply wouldn’t stop screaming at another dog no matter
what I said or did, and when I finally lost my temper and bellowed at him he
looked at me as though he really was saying “keep your hair on”.
Sadly the rain started when we were at about the furthest
point from the car so I cut the walk short (a bit). I had this idea that
the dogs behave better when Pogo is with us so I left them off the lead right
up to the point where they jump in the car boot. It was then when I realized I
was missing one dog. Morgan was standing about twenty yards away with a
recalcitrant expression. He refuses to go back to the car if we’ve walked less
than three miles, and he wasn’t keen to end the walk today; even if it was
raining.
As we drove home so the pundits on the radio were talking
about secret societies and things hidden in plain sight that no one ever
notices. Bearing in mind that’s what I do with the whole geocaching silliness I
had a little smile.
And then the rain turned torrential. We’d got a tad damp in
our walk. We got thoroughly soaked in the ten yards from the car to the house.
We towelled the dogs off, I made us both a cuppa and I
looked at my emails. My Credit Karma score has gone down; my Experian score has
gone up. How does that work?
I then ran “Daddies’ Little Angel TM” and Pogo
back home and went on a little shopping mission… or tried to. I needed a new
light switch. As I was in Folkestone I went to their branch of B&Q… only to
find it had closed in 2017. So I tried Homebase… which had closed last year.
I gave up with Folkestone and drove through the rain up to
Ashford where I went to Wickes. They didn’t have the light switches I wanted,
and their buckets were fifteen quid more expensive than B&Q. So against my
better judgement I went to B&Q. They only had bog-standard light switches,
but by that time I was past caring. I got a light switch and a bucket.
I came home as it was only round the corner.
After a bit of dinner I saw that the torrential rain
had gone and bright sunshine had taken its place so I popped over to Bybrook
Barn to get the one pond plant I needed. We had a spare planter in the pond. I
got a pretty blue plant; it might survive, it might not.
I got the thing in the pond and the fish fed just
before the rain started again. Not being able to continue outside I made us
both a cuppa and did a little CPD
and sulked about this rain.
With little else to do I sat on the sofa and had my
arse handed to me on a plate by the bots at chess dot com.
“er indoors TM” boiled up a very
good bit of dinner which we scoffed whilst watching the first episode of the
new series of Bake Off. It was on last night, but by watching the recording we
were able to fast-forward through half an hour’s worth of adverts. I’ve taken a
serious dislike to one of the contestants, but judging by his performance I can’t
see him lasting very long.
Oh and my Lego Advent Calendar has arrived. I ordered
it from Amazon yesterday as then it was four quid cheaper than the official
Lego store. Today they are the same price (!)
This will be the sixteenth year that I’ve done my little Advent story. I wonder what this
year’s will be about? I really should open the thing now and give myself a few
months to plan something, but I never do. I open it on the morning of the given
day and spend the day desperately wondering what I might say about it…
I’m getting rather hacked off with this seemingly
constant rain…
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