After a rather restless
night I came down to find three dog turds on the carpet. "Furry
Face TM" knew he'd done wrong and was very
subdued for the rest of the morning. I was watching Ricky Gervais in
"Extras" by 6am. I checked out social media and saw
not a lot had happened overnight. As I checked I saw a new geocache
went live; not far from where we were yesterday. Ho hum...
The original plan for
today was to go to Essex for a spot of watching banger racing. I've
never been banger racing before; it might have been fun. But in the
same way that Friday's beer festival was abandoned for reasons of
economy, prudence dictated that today's banger racing had to go the
same way.
I've estimated that by
having abandoned the beer festival and the banger racing I can
(hopefully) afford the next two weekends' plans.
So in an economical frame
of mind we set off to Herne Hill for a day's hunting tupperware. Six
of us (and two small dogs) met up at Herne Hill and having
solved a clue in the graveyard we set off round the Herne
Hill Hike. The weather forecast for the day wasn't good, but it
turned out to be pretty much right. A damp start followed by a
relatively dry few hours and then torrential rain just after the sort
of time I estimated that we'd finish walking.
We had a really good
walk; the views would have been better had there been clear skies
rather than very low cloud and fog. But it was a good day to be out.
And once we'd walked seven miles we had a crafty half in the beer
garden of
the Red Lion.
I took
a few photos whilst we were out
We finished at just the
right time; we finished our walk, we enjoyed a pint of ale, and just
as we got into the car so torrential rain hit. We abandoned plans for
a drive-by puzzle cache and went home with Kim and Andy. Andy had
been telling me about Manchester Star ale; a rather good dark ale. I
had a bottle. At 7.3% it's not something you mess with. We spent a
very enjoyable hour or so chatting and drinking. Must do that more
often.
And so home. A rather
good bit of tea, and as "er indoors TM"
set off bowling I curled up in front of the telly. You can't beat
hours and hours of "Only Fools and Horses".
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