I woke this morning two
minutes before the alarm was due to go off. I got up, washed, shaved,
sloshed out my sinuses (yuk!) and checked the weather
forecast. It was raining outside, but the forecast for Sittingbourne
would have had us beleive that the rain there was stopping. So we
rallied the troops and set off to Borden where we met up with some
other hunters of tupperware. There was a geo-meet planned for mid
day, so I had this idea to constructively spend the morning on a
geo-stroll before meeting up with everyone else. Eight of us set off
through the rain; confident that the rain would clear up. After all
the BBC weather forecast said that it would.
As unlikely as it may
sound, the BBC lied.
Despite the rain we had a
good wander; earlier in the week I'd solved two geo-puzzles. We found
both of those caches this morning, and a dozen others as well. I
called "Smug Mode" on what turned out to be a false
alarm. We stomped along country lanes and across fields. We did get
rather wet.
And once sodden we made
ouy way to the Maypole
in Borden where we met up with all the other geocachers who
weren't daft enough to get soaking wet. I was amazed at the turn-out;
I was expecting maybe twenty or so people. I was seriously expecting
the arriival of our little walking contingent to double the amount of
people in the pub. I was wrong; there was well over fifty people
there.
As I dried out I chatted
about the merits and hazards of hunting tupperware for recreational
purposes with all sorts of people. There is nothing quite like
talking about your hobby with like-minded people; I do like these
monthly meet-ups. Especially when (like today) they are held
in a traditional pub with a decent ale selection. With a choice of
four ales I ended up having six pints of the stuff. Hic (!) We
had lunch there; it was rather good. This is a pub I can certainly
recommend. There are some other geocache series that start and end at
this pub; we might just have to go back there for those; even if an
errant normal person in the place did mistake me for a rambler. (I
soon put him right !)
Home, whhere I struggled
for anything to put on the telly for the evening. In the end I went
with the E4 channel and re-runs of "Big Bang Theory".
With a small dog by my side I slept through several epsodes...
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