I woke to the sound of Morgan jumping off of the bed in the
small hours. When he gets up there’s no hanging around. If he can’t get out of
the back door, he unloads as close to “out of the back door” as he can.
I got there in time, but came back to bed to find my warm
spot had been annexed by Pogo. I shoved him over, but then had to contend with
Morgan stomping up and down because Pogo was in his usual space. Some nights
everyone sticks to their own bit of the bed and all is peachy. Other nights it
is one big squabble. The obvious answer is to have the dogs sleep in their own
beds… but I said that years ago.
I had a bit of a shave and tidied up the mutton chops, then
stood on the scales. I’ve lost a couple more pounds; I’m now exactly three
stones lighter than I was at the start of the year. I’m seeing that as a
result. But, as I always say, weight loss is easy. I’ve done it before. Keeping
the weight off – that’s the tricky bit.
I made toast and had a look at the Internet. Someone had
reported a post on the “Upstairs Downstairs” Facebook page that I help
moderate. Someone else had posted mucky photos on there. That’s the second time
that’s happened over the last few days… that’s another person who has got
themselves banned.
I took the dogs up to Kings Wood where my piss boiled. Last
year I spent months trying to organise a litter pick but the officials at
Forestry England were awkward and obstructive and making all sorts of problems
and objections. Over the weekend there was an organized orienteering event
which left the grassed areas by the car park little more than a sea of mud, and
left the woods awash with blue paint, and their direction signs have been left
behind too.
We started our walk earlier than we have done recently.
Being there shortly after sunrise there were only two other cars in the car
park, and we only saw one other group on our way round. It was a shame that
Pogo had to scream at them, but that’s Pogo.
We walked our usual walk. As we went so the dogs nibbled on
horse poo (as they do). But we did see some deer; if only fleetingly.
We came home to find no parking anywhere near home. I
parked two streets away, and as we parked so everyone else had driven off. We
walked back from the car past six parking spaces. Ho hum…
Now it’s winter, baths after a walk are the done thing.
Bellies get rather muddy when we are out, and get rather crusty as the mud
dries on the drive home. With bellies washed I popped down the road to the
dentist to see if they could fix the tooth that broke at the weekend; they made
an appointment for the afternoon.
“er indoors TM” wasn’t in the
office today so I made us both a cuppa, and we had a lemon curd bun with it.
Very nice.
I Munzed, getting six bouncers out of a tree house. I’ve
often mentioned that there’s never a dull moment in Munzee. Eventually I got
Wordle to work and got “clamp” on the fifth attempt. I watched a couple
of episodes of “The Witcher” whilst doing the ironing, then did some CPD. The bots
at chess dot com then gave me a free lesson, and I then played them with
various degrees of success.
I went into the garden where I gathered dog dung and pulled
dead leaves out of the pond.
And then to the dentist. I was in and out in fifteen
minutes. The dentist smoothed off the sharp edge of the broken tooth and put in
what he called an “intermediate filling”. He said to see how it went. There’s
very little tooth left for him to fill, and he didn’t seem to want to be drawn
on what happens if and when this intermediate filling gives up the ghost. I
suppose that now the sharp edge has gone, if this fix fails then the immediate
urgency to sort it won’t be what it was.
I then spent a little while looking at lino. Last year when
I built the expanded bog filter for the pond I put up some stone-effect pond
liner to cover where the water goes from the filter to the main pond, but it
looks a bit crap in that it is far too light in colour. I really need some sort
of pond liner/lino that is much darker. I couldn’t find anything on-line, so
I’m left with going old-skool and actually going to the shop to have a look. I’ll
do that tomorrow.
“er indoors TM” boiled up cheeseburgers
then went bowling. I settled on the sofa underneath a pile of dogs and watched another
episode of “The Witcher”.
I’m thinking early night after last night’s restlessness…
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