Oh, the rain was loud
last night. The guttering about our bedroom window gets overloaded
with rain from the roof and it then overflows against the window. It
doesn’t do that quietly at all. For once I was having a decent bit
of kip and I wasn’t much pleased to be woken.
After a swift bit of
brekkie I set off to collect "My Boy TM"
and together we went to the golf club. Last week we had a go on the
driving range. It wasn’t as easy as it looked, and today we had
another go. I did something wrong on my first swipe and pulled a
muscle in my right arm. We were there for about an hour. I would like
to have stayed longer, but my arm was playing up.
Home, where I put the
lead on Fudge and we set off for a quick walk. I’d had reports that
one of my geocaches needed some maintenance. I found it and the log
inside was soaked. So I replaced it, and we then came home again.
"Daddies Little Angel TM" phoned.
I had been expecting to see her today, but something or other had
come up. She was off to London on some errand or other. I did ask her
to keep me appraised of what she was doing, but I didn't hear
anything more. I can only assume she's OK.
I then did a spot of
washing and ironing. I could have done something in the garden, but
it was too wet and my arm was hurting too. My arm carried on hurting
for much of the day, so I rested it. Fudge rested too.
The day's news was
unusual. In a novel break with tradition it didn't feature the latest
fleeting trivialities of today's politicians who will be forgotten
tomorrow. Nor did it feature digging dirt on long-dead celebrities.
Instead it was actually something worthy of mention for a change.
Six years ago the New
Horizons space probe set off to fly past the planet Pluto. (Pluto
*IS* a planet!!). However the recent discovery of several moons
around the rather small celestial body has given NASA cause for
concern. Since there's quite a lot of rather large space rock
thingies where there weren't expected to be many has made the boffins
wonder if there's also one or two smaller space rock thingies out
there too. And if there is, that might be a problem. Having New
Horizons prang into a space rock thingy (of any size) at
fourteen kilometres per second is going to make quite a dent in said
space probe.
And talking of space
related things I set off to the astro club's committee meeting. I was
perhaps earlier than I might have been; no one told me we were
meeting at 8pm and not at 7.30pm like the email said. But we had a
good meet-up. Plans for the future, a new year's series of talks
planned, Stargazing Live, all sorts of stuff planned...
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