I woke and looked at the
clock and was amazed to see it was nearly 6am. I've not slept for so
long for ages. I had a quick bit of brekkie and then took "Furry
Face TM" for a walk. We nearly got run
down by a cyclist who was riding down the pavement whilst busy
fiddling with his phone; both ears bunged up with headphones from
said phone. I made sure my dog was safe and kept walking, and at the
last minute the twit swerved and ended up in someone's front garden.
It wasn't that he didn't see me coming; he could see me all right. He
just felt I should walk up the road to avoid him. The road is where
he should have been.
As he extricated himself
from someone's wheely-bin I smiled sweetly and kept going.
We met an ex-cub's mother
whilst we were out. She remembered me, and I recognised her. Greg and
Georgie were good lads; one of them was an accomplished runner, and I
remember him doing very well in a cubs cross country race at the
Biddenden vineyard where I got several cubs' mothers drunk. She told
me that Grag and Georgie are now in their early twenties. I remember
them as being ten years old.
Once home "Furry
Face TM" had his brekkie, and I drove
round to the tip to get rid of all the rubish I emptied from the
garden yesterday. And then, with er indoors TM"
emerged from her pit, we set off on a day's hunting tupperware. First
of all round Ospringe; a rather scenic village. It was here that we
met a couple of people who spotted us caching and introduced
themselves as fellow chasers of sandwich boxes. they gave us the
low-down on one cache we'd been unable to find earlier in the day,
and recommended a pub for lunch.
The
Ship Inn in Ospringe is the sort of pub that you would look at
and walk swiftly away from. It looks grim; the outside has probably
not had a lick of paint since the mid 1970s. But looks can be
deceptive. With three ales on the hand pumps, really good food and
friendly staff I would recommend the place to anyone who might be in
the area.
We then went into
Faversham to track down elusive plastic. Whilst we were wandering
here, there and thither my Munzee app died, which was a nuisance.
However on the plus side we discovered a home
brew shop which is streets ahead of the shop in Ashford.
We found a dozen or so
caches, then came home to collect phones from the repair shop. We
then spent a few minutes filling the car with another load of garden
rubbish for another tip run tomorrow. The car is now pretty much full
of rubbish (again) and I think I could probably fill it with
rubbish again tomorrow.
The plan for the evening
was to watch all sorts of stuff from the SkyPlus box. We watched the
last two episodes of "Fleming" (which weren't
very good) then I slept through everything else...
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