Unusually I woke a few
times in the night tangled in the hose of my CPAP machine. It's
surprising how little I actually tangle myself in the thing. Mind you
for all that it does allow me uninterupted sleep I don't like the
device. As I put it on every night I feel like an old man on his
death bed.
Over brekkie I fought
with the router. It wouldn't work at all, so I tethered my laptop to
my mobile phone to get on-line and I looked at the weather forecasts
for various places around Kent. The forecast for Sandwich was light
rain for much of the day, so I wondered about rescheduling our
planned trip and going elsewhere. But the forecasts for everywhere in
Kent had rain except for Ashford. The forecast for where we were was
fine all day. But bearing in mind it was actually raining I decided
to treat the weather forecasts with the contempt they deserved and
continue with our plan.
We rallied the troops and
five of us (and two small dogs) went on a geo-mission to
Sandwich. Don't get me wrong - I liked our walk round Battle last
week, but I really fancied somewhere mostly on tarmac and off of mud
for today. Sandwich fitted the bill. On the map we'd found a
geo-series of ten caches laid out around the town (with four
church micros as an added bonus). It turned out to be a really
good walk. We covered about six miles without ever being more than
about a mile away from where we'd left the car. Being on roads and
footpaths the going was easy.
I had hoped to pick up
one or two puzzles that I'd worked out were in the area. On going to
the locations that I'd calculated that we needed to visit it became
apparent that I'd calculated wrongly. I shall try again.
With the walking done we
went into the
Red Cow for a crafty pint. As well as having public toilets with
attendants, Sandwich isn't short of a pub or two. I may well organise
a pub crawl round there at some stage. It was actually quite a
scenic place to visit; it's only a shame I forgot to take my camera.
We came home via Kim &
Andy's where we had a few bottles of home brew (hic!) before
coming home with a replacement router. On arrivall at home the
exisiting router seemed to be working, so we are keeping the new one
in reserve for the time being.
There was a worrying
episode when my PC wouldn't start. After a few minutes of doing
nothing it then launched a startup repair screen. After ten minutes I
got a message that the thing was utterly beyond repair and iit turned
itself off. I wasn't taking any old lip from it so I turned it on
again and all was fine. I wonder what that was all about.
With "er indoors
TM" off bowling I sppent a few minutes
giving my expert opinion and advive (ahem!) to a novice
wheri-writer. Someone on the wherigo forum had asked for people for
advice and suggestions on her first Wherigo.I'm no expert, but I
offered to give her first effort a quick look-over; if nothing else I
thought I would probably learn something myself.
I then dozed in front of
the telly with my dog. He seemed worn out; our Sunday walks do seem
to take it out of him. I keep forgetting what short legs he has...
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