What with all the
excitement of working yesterday it was gone 9pm before I got home
last night. By the time I'd scoffed tea and fussed "Furry
Face TM" it was getting on for midnight. I
did snigger when "Furry Face TM"
started chasing flies round the kitchen. A week ago he literally
couldn't move; now he's a lot more sprightly.
Allowing for a quick
nocturnal loo-trip I slept in until 9am, and was just the teensiest
bit disappointed to wake up to rain. But by the time I'd got dressed
the rain had stopped. I voomed up to the corner shop to get a loaf
(we'd run out) and I saw something unusual. One of the normal
people was walking his dog. Said dog had "dropped its load"
and the normal person was clearing up the mess. Just lately I see so
many people letting their dogs crap everywhere; it was good to see
someone not leaving bombs behind.
We had brekkie, and then
settled "Furry Face TM" into his
cage. He's getting better but we're going to enforce his resting. We
then rallied the troops and set off to Hucking for a short stroll.
There was a minor hiccup when some of the troops announced they were
already at the start point; I'd been rather vague about times; in
retrospect I could have been rather more clear about the time we were
leaving Ashford as opposed to the time we were starting walking.
But eventually we were
all together for a little geo-stroll. Compared to some of the
extravaganzas we've done over the summer, today's walk was rather
tame. But it's been a little while since we've been out, and it never
hurts to break ourselves in slowly. We set off with eleven
geo-targets and hoped we might get one or two extras along the way.
We ended up with seventeen finds and no DNFs ("Did Not Find"
- it's a geo-thing).
The Hucking estate is a
great place for a little stroll; leaving aside the wonderful name (it
hucking well is called "Hucking"!) there were some
wonderful views to be had. As we walked we found some rather good
arty wood carvings including a living log, a shepherd, and a herd of
pigs.
We also met some other
geocachers too; Kim and Andy had mentioned that they thought they'd
spotted a likely looking pair, and as we went round we met up
(several times) with the "Otford Strollers".
When you sign a geo-log you sign with your geo-pseudonym. There are
so many wonderful names I've read over the years; it was good to
finally put faces to one of the names today. Interestingly they
recognised me immediately. Everyone always does; I wonder why?
We'd been advised to wear
wellies today; it was as well that we did. The ground was *very*
muddy. I was glad for the chance to test out my boots. The last time
I wore my wellies I ended up pouring a pint of water out of them
after that walk; today they didn't leak at all.
I took some
photos whilst we were out. It's been a little while since I put
up a Facebook album.
After a rather good bit
of tea I settled down with my dog and we watched the
League of Gentlemen film. In all honesty I was disappointed with
it...
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