After a wonderful weekend
away with family and friends I felt somewhat at a loose end today.
With "My Boy TM" expecting
deliveries I really needed to wait in for the postman. The firm
bringing the parcel takes undelivered stuff back to Maidstone.
Driving there and back is a bit of a pain so I waited about the
house. I soon got bored with playing silly Facebook games, so I tried
to make progress with a talk I have planned for the astro club. Tried
and failed. It's a talk which is a little "out of the box",
and I couldn't get the enthusiasm for it today.
Instead
I did a little research. Yesterday I ranted about the future of the
kite festival at Teston. Specifically the funding of future events
bearing in mind that they will effectively have to be private
ventures. The
nice lady from Kent county council with whom I spoke at great length
was absolutely adamant that the cost of public liability insurance cover would be
fifty quid. She was crystal clear on the matter, and said that such
insurance was obtainable at that price from
http://www.insuremyevent.co.uk
She said she'd looked it up herself several times. We discussed the
matter in detail and she was completely convinced of the price. I had
a go on their website and come up with a price of £279.19 (!)
I wonder how much else I was told that wasn't quite right.
With
three loads of washing on the line and drying in the sunshine I found
myself gripped with boredom. So I had a little tidy-up in the front
garden. Periodically I pull the weeds out from between the paving
slabs and have a sweep-up and the garden looks presentable for a week
or so. Whilst pootling I got into a conversation with a passing
street sweeper who told me that my road is one of the cleanest in
Ashford. Apparently he gets far less litter from my street than from
any other. I was quite pleased to hear that.
I then wandered along the
road and (looking very nonchalant) hid another geocache. I say
"hid" - the thing is quite obvious really. Or that
is it's obvious when you know where it is. That's two
geocaches I've hidden now. I've plans for a third one. I'd like
to have quite a big one; one large enough to hold trackables and
things; but that would need a special location. I wonder if I might
pop one in the church yard somewhere?
Being a Tuesday the clans
gathered. On the way to gathering we met up with Chip and found a
couple more geocaches. One of them was the little fellow pictured
above. What a wonderful idea for a cache. And I came home to find an
email that the cache I made today breached two of the rules of the
game. I've put it all right; let's hope that the nice people at
geocahing dot com agree with me...
I think it is now active
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