I slept well… but woke in a panic following a
nightmare in which I’d built a sunken water feature in my deceased father’s
shed and the house’s new owner wasn’t at all happy that the thing kept
flooding.
What was that all about?
I got up and made toast. Yesterday I was a tad
scathing about Reform UK’s ability to form a local council… However I would
like to think that opinion was formed from the evidence of what they’ve
actually done.
This morning Facebook suggested that I might like to
follow the “We Loathe Reform UK” page and had presented me with a
posting from some woman claiming to be an activist of the Roma community who
was basically exhorting people to clout Reform UK supporters with crowbars. I
was also presented with the Facebook page of an independent councillor who was
claiming that another councillor in his ward had poured a milkshake over
himself and then posted photos of himself claiming he’d been attacked in order
to get the sympathy vote.
Is this *really* where UK politics had ended
up?
I Munzed, and typed “panic” into Wordle. That
got me two letters. “Ninny” told me where those two letters went, and I
proved that with “bison”. “Widen” got me a little closer, “given”
had me marking time, and I got it on the last go with “liken”.
I checked the geo-map, got my sat-nav “Hannah”
set up, and we got ready for the day.
We set off on today’s adventure and made the mistake
of following Google’s instructions to get to our destination. Google took us
seemingly through every narrow lane in Kent and Sussex to eventually get us to
Wilmington. Some time ago I’d seen there was a geo-meet at the top of the
iconic Long Man planned for this afternoon so we drove down for that, We
arrived early and had a rather good hour walking thought the village finding
geocaches and solving field puzzles before lunch.
Lunch was in the aptly-named Long Man Inn
which I can heartily recommend. “er indoors TM” had
the chicken burger. I had the Sussex Cheeses ploughman’s which was very good. Blue
cheese from Brighton, and goat’s cheese brie from Horam… And I had a couple of
pints of decent ale too.
From there the plan was to walk in a pretty much
straight line up to the meet at the top of the hill. But as we walked through
the village we met Gordon and Ralph who said that there was a new geocaching
Adventure Lab series that went (on a circuitous route) from the village
up to the Long Man. We then met the chap who was running the geo-meet and he
was up for a little diversion too. And as we climbed the hill we were joined by
Carl who’d set the new Ad-Lab series.
We climbed the hill. There’s no denying that it was
rather hard work, but the views from the top were spectacular. As geo-meets go
the attendance was low, but today was just what this silly hobby is all about.
A great walk with amazing views in the company of some very good people.
I took quite a few photos as we walked today.
Amazingly we only covered five miles. About the same as one of our longer walks
round Kings Wood. But it seemed a whole lot longer.
We came home following the roads we knew rather than
the ones that we didn’t. We stopped off in Jempson’s in Rye to get pizzas.
Having had a good lunch we didn’t want too much for dinner.
Once home I saw that ultrasonic rat repelling device
I’d ordered had arrived. I opened the box to see that they’d sent six… and
sadly all six didn’t have the fittings to go into a UK plug socket. So I got
onto Amazon who refunded my money and said to chuck the things in the bin.
Whilst I’m pleased to have a refund, this is a tad
wasteful, isn’t it?
We scoffed the Jempson’s pizzas whilst watching more
episode of “The Orville”. Both were rather good.
Today’s been rather good…
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