Apart from a trip to the loo in the small hours I
stayed asleep until half past eight when my aching joints told me it was time
to start moving about. It’s amazing the difference not setting an alarm makes.
I got up and opened the Advent Calendar. Finally I had
something I felt I might
do something with. I had a scrape, made toast and had a look at the
Internet. Back in the day people used to post photos of all sorts of
pre-Christmas parties and events. So far hardly anyone has posted photos of
hardly anything to social media. Either no one’s posting anything, or nothing
is happening.
I saw that the Kent geo-meet happened yesterday… I say
“Kent” it was in south London. Back in the day the December geo-meet was
the highlight of the geocaching calendar. From what I could see hardly anyone
from Kent went. We didn’t as the place wasn’t dog-friendly.
Which reminded me that I was hoping to stage the
February geo-meet at the McCann’s brewery. They haven’t replied to me email.
I’d better chivvy them up.
The dogs came down. I chivvied them into the garden.
Something has been digging in my flower boxes. A couple of days ago nice-next-door
commented she thinks she’s got a rat in her roof. It would be a brave rat with
Bailey about. Apparently coffee deters them.
I Munzed; earning ten Zeds. Zeds are a crypto-currency
used in Munzee. Ten Zeds is somewhere between six and seven pence.
We got ourselves organised and went for a little
outing. Certain geocaches give you an Origami Animal e-Treasure when you log
them, and we targeted a few of them today to give us a little adventure.
First of all we went to Aldington to get one that I’d
found twelve years ago, but “er indoors TM” hadn’t.
That evened up my finding the one at Dungeness yesterday.
We then drove to Lympne castle where after a little
walk we had the second one in hand. That cache was called “Marsh Views”
and there was a particularly good view across the marsh from there.
It was only half a mile from there to the Shepway
Cross monument where we soon found the third one.
From there we had a little drive up to Lydden Hill
where the racing happens. The fourth cache was soon found.
As we’d driven there we’d seen signs to a micropub.
And it was lunch time. So we had a little lunch break. The
Blue Silo micropub was a
rather good find. As “er indoors TM” parked
the car I popped my head round the door and asked two questions. Could I bring
the dogs in? Could I pay by card? Having been told yes to both, I told the nice
lady that all else was details. We had a drinkie and a sausage roll each, and
arranged to stage the next (January) monthly geo-meet there.
And then on to our fourth geo-target. The instructions
for that one told us where the car park was, and said we simply walk a mile up
the disused train line to the geocache and walk back again. And that’s what we
did. Sadly walking there was a lot easier than walking back was. As always it
was the smallest of our group that was the pain in the glass, but Bailey
eventually reappeared after having been missing for fifteen minutes.
We could have then driven down to New Romney for one
last geo-find, but time was against us.
I took a few photos as we went about. We
can get that last origami animal next weekend.
We came home. “er indoors TM” set
off shopping. I did the admin for the geo-meet we’d spoken about with the nice
lady in the Blue Silo micropub.
“er indoors TM” came
home from shopping and I put the telly on. We watched “Carry On Spying”.
When I was a lad the Carry On films were the pinnacle of comedy. “Carry
On Spying” was something of a disappointment.
We had dinner. Enchiladas went down rather well. As we
scoffed we watched a celebrity Bake-Off episode which was entertaining enough,
but (for me) would have been better had it featured celebrities I’d
heard of.
Today’s been rather good…
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