The intention was to catch upon sleep last night. I dozed on the sofa with Fudge on my lap until gone midnight, then lay in bed chatting on Facebook till gone 1.30am. And was woken by the noise of the rain shortly after.
I spent a little while
this morning trying to post onto the astro club's Facebook page. What
I wanted to say was "Hi all. As a club we have display boards
and a *lot* of posters for them. But 99% of these posters are
hopelessly out of date. Being a very mean treasurer I am very loathe
to spend good money on new posters which will also get out of date.
Instead might I ask
the membership to design posters for the club. We have some very
accomplished astro-photographers. A print on A3 or A4, maybe a
description. laminated would be good. Or why not design something on
a planet? All contributions gratefully received"
I posted that, and then
deleted it six times because of spelling mistakes I kept finding. The
final version has still got a typo in it, but I can't be bothered to
change it for a seventh time.
Here's
something of interest. t would seem some normal people watched a
geocacher doing his thing and were suspicious. They called the
police. A town was cordoned off for hours, and the poor geocacher
ended up with a police caution.
In theory this is
entirely avoidable. For all that caches are reviewed by experienced
cachers before they go live, these reviewers do not have local
knowledge. To get round this, when cachers find a geocache in a place
which could be construed as less than ideal they have the option to
say so in the log that appears on-line. In theory this should point
out any shortcomings in problematical geocaches.
In practice this doesn't
work. It's become the accepted practice that these logs should only
be used in a very positive way, and any log which does not gush
praise regardless of any problems is frowned upon, and then deleted.
And then shopping. First
to the outlet centre. Every time I go there the shops are different.
We got some Christmas pressies, then walked into town for more
Christmas pressies. We had a look in the clothes shops and I couldn't
see anything that I couldn't get cheaper in Asda or Tesco. A quick
bit of McLunch, then on to the pound shops to pick up some bargains.
And with bargains bought we came home, collected Furry Face and took
him for a walk though some very wet and muddy fields. Whilst out we
fitted in a couple of geocaches. Well, we were in the area and it
would be a shame not to. The pup did get wet and muddy though. And
was soon shivering. He will be wearing his T shirt and coat tomorrow
whether he likes it or not.
And with "er
indoors TM" off to the film night watching
a film I wouldn't have minded watching I dusted off an old
presentation I once gave to the astro club. I'm presenting at our
upcoming Stargazing Live extravaganza, and am fast running out of
time to have it all ready...
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