I woke at 6.30am, got up,
shaved, had brekkie and was bored by 7am. I looked out the window and
saw the rain was still hammering down. Judging by the puddles in the
road it must have been raining for most of the night. To pass the
time I solved a couple of geo-puzzles, and then spent nearly two
hours applying to join a professional association. A dull, but
necessary chore.
By 9am I was going stir
crazy, so I took "Furry Face TM"
for a walk. We were only out for just under half an hour and we got
soaked. We came home and I set about the ironing that I gave up on
last night. It didn't take long, and for once I could say there was
no washing or ironing in the house to be done.
The sun came out just as
I was ironing the last T shirt, but by the time I'd put the ironing
board away the rain was pouring again. Usually on Sundays we go for
long walks but with everyone else busy and the bad weather still
continuing I was at a loose end.
It was a shame that "My
Boy TM" was away for the weekend; I would
have invited myself round for lunch. They had invited me down to
spend the day with them at Pontins but I didn't want to leave "Furry
Face TM".
I *could* have
gone to Teston to visit the campers but much as I'd like to see
friends, shivering in a tent or caravan is no fun. And my dog would
have got filthy. Bearing in mind how bad the weather had been it was
as well I hadn't gone camping.
I've since heard that
Teston stalwarts were abandoning the festival and going home at mid
day when normally they stay till after 7pm.
Mind you this is the
first time I've missed the Teston kite festival in ten years, and it
was just my luck that I missed the fight. Apparently there has been
fisticuffs. Someone drove a 4x4 on the field nearly hitting people.
It got stopped and one of the campers let the tyres down, another
speared the vehicle with a metal stake and a third camper thumped the
driver. I would like to have seen that. I've heard there is a video
which will be put on-line soon; I'm looking forward to seeing it.
A cinema trip was
suggested for the afternoon, but everyone else had had the same idea
and the place was already booked out. I had a bit of lunch and as the
rain slackened off I put the collar and lead onto "Furry Face
TM" and we went for a little wander. Today
is "Sidetracked" day in the geo-world. If you log a
find on a "Sidetracked" cache today you get a
geo-souvenir so I went to my nearest such geocache which was in
Tenterden. As luck would have it the two geo-puzzles I'd solved this
morning were within a couple of miles (or so) of that cache so
it made for a nice little walk of an hour or so during a gap in the
rain.
Just as I got home so the
torrential rain hit again.
I bathed the mud off of
my dog, watched a bit of telly then put on long trousers and a
fleece, settled "Furry Face TM"
down, and went outside to wait for Steve to arrive. He was soon there
and we went down to Folkestone where there was an observing the moon
session because of today's harvest moon. A dozen of us watched the
moon for an hour or so.
Quite fun, but rather
cold. Mind you I was just glad that the rain had stopped.
Once home I got into my
jim-jams... and now there's more stuff in the laundry basket again...
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