I woke at five o’clock to the sound of Treacle
whimpering. She’d got off the bed and wanted to come back up but clearly
couldn’t. I got up to help her… and she jumped straight back onto the bed. Ho
hum…
As I made toast I noticed my coffee mug was still a
tad grubby. A quick look at the dishwasher showed several of the rinsing
nozzles were bunged up. “er indoors TM” took
it to bits and had a full-on fight with it. You wouldn’t believe the amount of
muck that came out.
Whilst
she clouted the thing I scoffed toast and peered into the Internet as I do. The
MP for Faversham was all over Facebook whinging about what a pain in the arse “Operation
Brock” has been and will be. She talked a good fight, but seemed to draw a
veil over how “Operation Brock” is one of the most obvious and tangible
results of Brexit (which she was all in favour of). As I’ve mentioned
before, our system of democracy is a stupid one. The masses don’t like
foreigners so we vote for firm border controls. And part of firm border
controls is taking time to control the borders and the masses don’t like that
either. And we have politicians like this one cheering on both policies
effectively saying black is white and right is wrong because she doesn’t dare
alienate the electorate by telling them what they don’t want to hear.
I Munzed, Wordled and we got ready for the off.
On Sunday morning I saw a new geocache had gone live
near the canal near Hythe. Someone had looked for it that morning and not found
it. On Monday the chap who’d hidden it had updated the given co-ordinates, and
on Tuesday he’d posted that he’d had a look and seen it was in place. But with
no one having logged a First to Find I had a plan that this might make a little
dog walk this morning before it got too hot.
We drove down to Hythe and despite the utterly
meaningless hint “Take the path less noticed—look where nature
stands guard” we found a tube hanging from some barbed wire about seven
feet up. But we were first to find it, which was more than we’d achieved
yesterday which was a result.
We carried on along the canal for a little walk.
Treacle fell in but was soon hoiked out. And as we came to the bridge across
the canal we found a little café. I got us an ice lolly each. There’s no
denying that Soleros have shrunk massively since I last had one. Apparently
it’s all about reducing the calories and not maximising the
profits.
We got back to the car just as it was getting
seriously hot. Once home, “er indoors TM” went
off shopping and got herself a haircut. Personally I’ve a set of trimmers which
I run over my head every couple of weeks or so, but she pays good money to have
her hair looking pretty much the same as it was before she went for the short
back and slap.
I
spent a few minutes fiddling about on-line and found MP3 versions of the
original broadcasts of “The Hitch Hiker’s guide to the Galaxy” which I’ve
put on my MP3 stick. “er indoors TM” returned and
sorted rather good tuna and cheese rolls and we sat in the garden for a bit.
Having seen endless adverts for “Matching Story” I thought
I’d give it a go. It was nothing like the adverts.
I
had a little sleep until the dogs went mad. We’d had a delivery. A few days ago
I mentioned I was trying to get the Adrian Mole books in audiobook format. I
came up with a plan that if I could resurrect my old lap-top I could use the CD
drive on that to rip the CDs to my MP3 stick. It was a good plan, thwarted only
by eBay. Having bought the complete Adrian Mole collection on audiobook CDs, am
I being hopelessly naïve in expecting something billed as “The complete
collection” to have all eight books and not just the first three?
The
first book was on five CDs… it only took an hour to convert them to MP3 format.
I’ll do the next two later, and if any of my loyal readers have any of the last
five Adrian Mole books on CDs… (he smiled hopefully).
“er indoors TM” boiled up a very
good bit of dinner which we washed down with a bottle of that cheap plonk
whilst we watched the latest series of “The Traitors US” in which a
couple of dozen supposedly celebrities tried to out-overact each other.
I’ve
set the dishy loose on the day’s crockery. Hopefully its overhaul of this
morning will have sorted it out. We shall see.
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