Several of the kite
fliers are spending the weekend at Merton farm's steam rally.
Originally we'd planned to go up to visit on Friday evening but
events conspired against us. Originally we were going to go for a
walk round the Bexhill area today,but events conspired against that
as well. So today we went out to Merton farm.
We'd arranged to meet
Dave at 9am, so I shouldn't really be that surprised that we didn't
get there until 9.40. We did pop in to a geocache on the way. There
is one cache I've had my eye on for some time - the location and the
key to get into the cache are on a travel bug which moves from cache
to cache around the county. This morning I got the heads-up where the
key was to be found - in a cache not ten minutes from where the
kiters were camping. So we picked it up whilst passing.
We found our way to
Merton farm - site of Canterbury beer festival. Soon we were enjoying
bacon sarnies with Dave & Tracy. We met up with a few old
friends. Not many - I was surprised at how few kiters were there.
We then had a mooch round
the steam rally. I say "steam rally" - it was billed
as a steam rally. There were half a dozen small steam engines, quite
a few vintage army vehicles, several old cars and motorbikes, and an
up-market boot fair. Being with the kiters we'd got in for free. Had
we paid the £5.50 entrance fee (per person) I would have been
disappointed. But it was as well that stuff was being sold. We got a
new dog lead from the guide dog stall; Fudge had managed to snap his
extending lead.
Back to base, and then
Rhiannon and Dave came with us on a little circuit of nearby
geocaches including the one for which we'd got the key. With no wind
there was no kite flying gong on and it was a lovely day for a walk.
We were out for an hour
or so, and when we came back Tracy had put on a rather good lunch.
Very nice! As the wind slowly picked up so some kites went up. Fudge
was allowed off the lead and was incredibly well behaved (apart
from ripping open someone's football). I think we might trust him
at camping.
Home, and after a rather
good bit of tea er indoors TM" set off
bowling. I had intended to get the ironing done, but the evening was
too good for that. So I got Fudge's collar and new lead and we went
for a little walk. For two and a half hours...
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