After yesterday's flood
warnings I had a rather restless night. the hail against the window
was particularly loud at 4am. I got up at 7am to see the road wasn't
flooded. That came as something of a relief. "Furry Face TM"
seemed rather subdued at brekkie time. I've been a it worried about
that dog. After we came home from our walk yesterday he slept most of
the day; only stirring himself when he say I had some cheese with my
port. Perhps dogs shouldn't have stilton, but he seemed to like it.
I brandished his lead at
him and he went mental. He was certainly up for a walk. Unlike our
usual walks where we go quite a long way from home, today we were out
for quite a while, but stayed relatively local. I wanted to check out
the nearby river and see the extent of the floods. The river was
perhaps two inches from bursting its banks in places; the footpath
was under water for several yards. Car parks at B&Q and at the
vet's were flooded. Whilst out we saw three houses had sandbagged
their front doors. I wonder where they get sandbags from?
Do we need sandbags? I'm
hoping not. I would guesstimate that the water level in the river has
got to rise by about eighteen inches before we need to worry. I took
some
photos of the floods whilst we were out.
Once home "Furry
Face TM" hopped into the bath to hose the
mud off of his underside and then he scoffed up most of his brekkie.
With brekkie scoffed he then charged around the living room like a
thing possessed; completely at odds with his quiet behaviour earlier.
Perhaps I worry too much about that dog.
And so on with the
business of the day: the monthly meet-up of geocachers. This month
the meet was local - SIngleton Barn. It's always good to meet with
people of a like mind, and today I got to chat with friends old and
new about all sorts of geo-things. A couple of weeks ago I'd put put
a series of puzzle caches for the day - they seemed to go down very
well with their target audience. I found out all about Bashful the
dwarf; but am still in the dark about Feigenbaum's bifircation
theorem.
The plan was a quick beer
and a quick chat - I was there all afternoon. And being one of the
last ones to go it seemed a shame for the fun to end, so we collected
"Furry Face TM" and went round to
to Lisa's for the evening.
I shall have a headache
in the morning...
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