After driving various
inebriated womenfolk home last night it was gone 1am before I got to
bed. I was wide awake at 5.30am this morning feeling as though I had
the world's worst hangoover. How is that possible? Over a spot of
brekkie I checked out the Internet. Rik Mayall died a wek or so ago.
Another comedy genius had died as well. Patsy Byrne who played
"Nursie"
in Blackadder has died. It turns out she was born in Ashford.
It's a small world!
The Rear Admiral arrived,
and we were soon off. Collecting another small dog and her associate
we were on the motorway by 8.30am. Today being the longest day of the
year we had planned a rather long walk which was a rather long way
away from home. We were eventally in deepest Sussex and were walking
the GFW series of geocaches; billed as eighty caches along sixteen
miles oof Sussex countryside it finally turned out to be eighty six
geocaches over nineteen miles and eleven hours. Many of the placs we
walke and caches we founnd seemed very familiar. Do Sussex cachers
archive caches and then put out new ones in *exactly* the same
places? It certainly seemed so. Interestingly reading my blog
comments from a year ago (when we were last in the area) I
said exactly the same thing then.
As we walked we saw deer.
We saw pretentious prats pretending to be cultured at a village open
day. We got rather hot; it was a very hot day. Even my dog felt the
heat. He rarely drinks when offered water, but when Suzy started
having a drink from the water bowl, rather than ignoring it (like
he usually does) he stood patiently next to her and cried. It was
so sad.
We nearly cried at the
second pub on our walk. Four small glasses of pop cost over ten quid.
They don't give the stuff away, do they?
Bearing in mind how good
"Furry Face TM" had been yesterday
he was off the lead for most (nearly all) of today's walk and
he was as good as gold. He was walking awkwardly at one point; I
think he's trodden on a stinging nettle, and at another point he
stopped dead and held up his paw. He'd got a dead holly leaf stuck in
his foot.
A tiring walk, but a good
one. We did take a couple oof wrong turns along the way. But only a
couple. I even took
the occassional photo whist we were walking.
There's no denying that
we finished a lot later than I was expecting, and so we stopped off
at Clackett Lane services for some McTea. As we scoffed I had the car
windows open. I closed them for the journey home. Or that is I tried
to. The passenger side window had broken in the "open"
position, which made for a rather cold, noisy and windy journey home.
I've bodged it up with
sellotape and cling film. I supposse I should phone a garage in the
morning..
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