With no alarm set I slept reasonably well. I would
have slept better had I got up for a tiddle at four o’clock rather than
thinking I’d manage, and shifting about every half hour to get comfortable.
I got up half an hour after I started working
yesterday, made toast and had a look at the Internet. Facebook was alive with
whinging this morning. One Facebook group supposedly about NHS wages was
embroiled in a major argument about the Gaza situation. Flat Earthers were
trying to hijack an Australian astronomy group. Flat Earthers boil my piss
because they are truly stupid. They really are. Just go to the beach and look
at the horizon. You can see the curvature of the Earth. It’s not massive, but
you can see that the horizon isn’t flat.
And there was a lot of quarrelling about cheating in
geocaching.
The Internet has turned out to be something of a
disappointment, hasn’t it? With all of human knowledge at our fingertips and
instantaneous communication, all the Internet has done has allowed us to engage
in fruitless petty bickering with half-wits that we will never meet.
I Munzed, got Wordle (grave) on the fifth
attempt, and sent out birthday wishes to oldest granddaughter. Back in the day
we’d go out to dinner with her and her mates. Now she’s grown up she does her
own thing.
“er indoors TM” got
the dogs into their coats, and leaving her working I took the dogs up to the
woods. It was rather cold this morning; as we walked so the mud was starting to
melt. As we walked we saw another dog walker. On seeing us the chap was clearly
gripped by panic and frantically tried to get his dog to come back to him. I
did an about-turn and went back the other way; people like that are best
avoided.
About half a mile further on we saw something odd…
There was a chap twenty yards off the path acting rather oddly… When I looked
closely I was shocked. The chap had a deer carcass hanging from a tree and he
was butchering it. In the past the Forestry England people have had organised
deer culls in the woods, but they’ve had vans and lorries up there, signs
warning to keep dogs under control, and the carcasses all went into a trailer
and were taken away. This morning’s performance all looked a bit dubious to me.
Having had coats on the dogs didn’t need baths when we
got home. I made us both a cuppa and phoned Forestry England to tell them about
the chap carving up the deer. Not that they would have been able to do anything
about it; he would have been long gone by then. It might all have been above
board; the chap might well have a licence and permission… but it all seemed a
bit dodgy compared to the previous deer shooting that I’ve seen up there
before.
I then sparked up my lap-top and tuned into work
despite being on a day off. One of the transfusion practitioners was giving a talk about transfusion
related circulatory overload. Being able to tune in to a useful talk when I’m
not in at work is what the Internet is for; not for quarrelling with strangers.
I then had a quick go in the garden. I harvested a
bumper crop of dog dung and topped up the bird feeders; the poor little things
will need food during this cold snap. And now that we’ve had two very cold
nights both ponds will be rather cold so I turned the pond pumps off. That’s
the ponds shut down for the winter. There’s work that needs doing in both… but
in the spring when it is warm, eh?
Having cleared up some shelf space last weekend I spent a
little while this afternoon putting together a Lego set I’d got as a pressie
last Christmas. I’m rather pleased with it.
We watched the third episode of “Celebrity Race Across
the World” in which the two previously rather useless teams seemed to
suddenly realise that they were in a race.
And the birds haven’t touched the seeds in the feeder…
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