I woke with a start to the sound of a loud crash at
ten to one this morning. Morgan had got tangled in the hose of my CPAP machine,
got into a panic and bolted, taking the CPAP machine and bedside clock with
him. He was terrified… it was as well he is sent out for a late night tiddle
before bed time.
With him eventually settled I slept through till eight
o’clock, got up and made toast. Facebook was the same as ever. There’s one chap
who plagues the geocaching pages on Facebook who was bemoaning about how nasty
everyone else can be, and why doesn’t anyone set up a Facebook page which is
monitored and moderated. Needless to say it was all “why doesn’t someone
else” and comments about “why don’t you do it yourself” were seen as
a personal attack.
And there was a post on one of the work-related
Facebook groups from someone in America asking about how to get compatible
blood for transfusion. Reading the posts from American blood bankers is always
interesting. Some of them are state-of-the-art and up to date on the
cutting edge of progress and others (like the one posting today) ask the
most basic and simplistic questions. This morning’s question really was along
the lines of a motorist saying that their car has stopped going and that they’d
heard that good results have been achieved from putting petrol in the petrol
tank, and does anyone have any experience of this.
I went down the road to the dentist. Having messaged
me twice, emailed me four times and phoned me I thought I’d better not miss the
appointments. The dentist had a go, took some X-rays and said I was good for
another six months. And then I went in to the hygienist where I nearly drowned in
the chair. But I came out with a cleaned gob, which must be a result.
With dentist done I took the dogs up to the woods. We
did our usual circuit, and as we walked my birdsong app detected a red-tailed hawk. That was clever of it
as they aren’t a bird which is native to the UK. Perhaps it had escaped from
somewhere. Like America?
Treacle detected some horse poo and ate it, and Bailey
detected some fox poo and had a very good roll in it. Foul creature!
We came home for a bath. I made us both a cuppa, then
I spent a few minutes going through my payslip. We operate a system where any
overtime or extra we work is paid the next month, so it is quite easy to lose
track of where you are and what you’ve been paid. Most people don’t bother, but
I’m incredibly mean and account for every hour and every penny. Sometimes I
spot a mistake in my favour…
I went into the garden, harvested dog dung, then wound out the big
waste hose. I stuck one end at the base of the monkey puzzle tree, attached the
other end to the pond’s pressure filter, and gave the filter a cleaning. Quite
a bit of grungy muck came out. But what is grungy muck to me is rather good to
a monkey puzzle tree.
I topped up the bird feeder, then had a little sit by
the pond. It’s definitely coming back to life. I would have sat there for
longer, but after half an hour I got rather cold so I came back inside and made
us both a cuppa.
I wrote up some
CPD… I realised I hadn’t Munzed, so I Munzed. Our Clan
reached the last of our monthly targets today and got all of our in-game
rewards.
“er indoors TM” boiled
up pizza and went bowling. I watched the last of the Netflix dinosaur documentary.
What to watch next…
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