Being wide awake at half past five I put the washing
machine on, and having got up and done something I then went back to sleep for
a couple more hours. When I got up I had a rather bad backache; I wonder what
set that off?
I hung out the washing, made toast and looked at the
Internet. Yesterday when I was at work “er indoors TM” hid
a geocache in Boughton Aluph. This morning I got an email telling me that it (and
others locally) had gone live at seven o’clock this morning. There’s a chap
who lives up the road who seems obsessed with being the first one to get to any
new geocache. He found “er indoors TM”’s one within
an hour of it being published. Having found that one five miles away in
Boughton Aluph whilst I was asleep, he took a couple of minutes to get back to
the car, had a twenty minute drive down some incredibly narrow country lanes
where he found another new one at Charing. And then got the hat trick by
driving on to Pluckley where he found his third one. For an encore he got two
more in Tenterden and was on his way home before ten o’clock on a Sunday
morning…
Each to their own I suppose…
There was an interesting squabble on one of the
pond-related Facebook pages that I follow. It was claimed that your water bill
is only payable on water that then goes back down the drains and sewers, and
consequently any water that goes into a garden pond is free. It was claimed
that you could set up a water meter on your garden hose to measure how much
water goes into your garden ponds and claim a refund.
Can You? I don’t know. I’m not even on a water meter
so it’s no skin off my nose, but you should have seen the bickering this
suggestion provoked.
I Munzed, Wordled from “water” to “etude”.
“Etude” !!! After “teeth” and “elite” I knew I had et—e
and looked up what five letter words might fit. There was only one. Apparently
it is a short
piece of music. One lives and learns.
“er indoors TM” went
to brekkie with friends. I stayed home and pootled. I sorted undercrackers,
pulled weeds from flower pots, cleaned out the fish tank filter, cleaned out
the small pond filter, swept round, gathered dog turds (four times!). By
the time “er
indoors TM” came hone I was worn out.
“My Boy TM” and ”Auntie
Chel TM” popped in. They’d been tree shopping at B&Q
and looking at materials for making a pergola for their garden. We had a rather
good bit of dinner and put the world to rights.
When they went I then ran the hose out to top up the big
pond, and whilst I was at it I cleaned out the pond’s filter. It is *so*
much easier to clean the pressure filter than the old box filter that we used
to have,
I
had a little kip. I’d far rather sleep during the night than during the
afternoon, but there it is.
I’ve had a rather lazy day today… not a bad thing
occasionally.
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