I felt a little under
the weather this morning. I wonder if that Woo Woo that I was pouring
down my neck last night wasn't actually the nectar I was led to
believe it was?
A swift bit of brekkie
and then we set off to Viccie Park. Perhaps there wasn't quite enough
snow to go sledging, but we thought we'd give it a try anyway. "My
Boy TM" Cheryl and Lacey met us there, and
we had a few zooms down the incline by the play park. But not many -
a combination of not enough snow and not enough slope was against us.
We went into the Chinese garden and had a go there. The sledging was
slightly better.
The trouble with Ashford
(as far as sledging is concerned) is that the place is too
flat. We had a vague idea to walk out to Jesus Hill to try there, but
we got cold, and when we got close enough we diverted to the
Lacey-arium and made snowDaves in the garden. We made some rather
good ones. Fudge did disgrace himself by tiddling up Lacey's
snowDave, but Lacey didn't notice. Which was probably for the best.
As we walked home we saw
that a lot of people had been making snowDaves of their own. And
other snow sculptures. Some local herberts had made a four foot tall
anatomically correct set of male "bits" which made
me snigger.
Once home it was good to
warm up. Much as I like playing in the snow, after four hours I was
rather cold. A text message - was I going geocaching? The original
plan for the day involved a geocaching session in Medway. But the
threat of snow meant that we'd postponed that. I had vaguely
suggested that I might do a couple of Ashford caches, but by the time
I'd got frozen, all I wanted to do was to warm up. And geocaching is
all about stealth. You can hardly be stealthy when you are leaving
tracks in the snow behind you.
Other plans for today had
included restocking the fish tank. So after a trip to the Family
Bargains store we went round to Bybrook Barn. They were shut, as were
Dobbies. Oh well. Their loss.
Fudge seemed to be in an
odd mood this afternoon. He was incredibly restless, and wouldn't
settle. The vet did say that he might react to yesterday's kennel
cough booster in the same way that we might react to a flu jab.
Perhaps that was the explanation. Something was bothering him. He did
feel warm, and in his restlessness he managed to destroy Dave the
Cactus. There was talk of giving him dog-paracetamol. Just as well we
didn't have any.
When "er indoors
TM" went off bowling Fudge fell asleep on
my lap and snored for quite some time. Let's hope that sleep did him
some good...
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