The weather forecast had
predicted rain overnight till about midnight, but a dry day today. So
we thought we'd put the planned walk back to mid day to allow the
world to dry out a little. I emerged from my pit at 9.30am to see
torrential rain outside. I sulked.
Much of the morning was
then spent trying to figure out what's going on in the geocaching
world. In the past whenever I've taken up a hobby I've found myself
getting involved in organised clubs and (quite frankly)
whenever people are involved it becomes a squabble. (Which is why
I am so pleased with how the astro club has turned out).
There is a geocaching
group on Facebook for the county. I've been following the postings on
there lately, and quite a few posts have been very derogatory about a
certain person. As a newcomer it strikes me that said person could
probably have Facebook close this group down on the grounds of
cyber-bullying should this person wish to make a complaint. I asked
one or two people (who would seem to be in the know) what was
going on. It seems that this person is (arguably) reaping what
they have sewn, having been winding the geocaching community up for
years. Originally their only crime was to be rather rubbish at
geocaching; and other people didn't like getting emails asking for
hints about where their caches actually were, and not being able to
see the patently obvious.
This was some time ago.
In the intervening years it's all got silly. All sorts of squabbles
have gone on. Posters on the local Facebook group have advocated the
deletion of electronic logs featuring this person. The same posters
have then acted surprised when this individual has recently reporting
geocaches as being unsafe and has formally appealed for the caches to
be closed. And these people who've posted against the individual have
acted even more surprised when this individual was allegedly seen
destroying geocaches hidden by those with whom they have fallen out.
This morning I heard that
this individual had published a "dick list"
featuring the names of those they feel they have a grievance with.
This "dick list" also has the names of one or two
innocent bystanders who are understandably miffed to find themselves
drawn into somebody else's arguments. And these people (who until
this morning were neutral in the fight) are now understandably
taking up arms and joining in with the squabble themselves.
Those who published the
"dick list" apparently run a pub. How long will it
be before their business is made to suffer by those they've
quarrelled with? Why can't humanity just get on without the
bickering?
We had planned to take
the pestilential pup for a walk round the Godinton estate this
afternoon. But the weather was still damp. The ground would just be a
swamp underfoot. So we abandoned our plans and instead we teamed up
with the Bat and Chris and went for walk up to town; across to the
cinema, and home via the Matalan roundabout. Fudge liked the walk,
and was again allowed off the lead whenever possible. He was very
good, coming back when called (this time). Since it was on
the way we stopped off at a few geocaches. It would have been rude
not to have done so.
With "er indoors
TM" out bowling I sat in front of the
telly watching DVDs. As Fudge sat on my lap and dozed I took photos
of him sleeping. Unlike most dogs (!) he's quite cute,
really....
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