On Saturday evening when
I got my shopping from Morrisons a chap in a suit with a large
"Morrisons" badge assured me that the supermarket
would be open on Sunday evening. So imagine my dismay when I arrived
at Morrisons at 7pm last night to find the place was closed. A rather
aggressive "jobsworth" working just inside the
locked door came out and snarled at me that they'd actually closed at
4pm.
Fortunately Sainsbury's
was open so I wasn't hungry overnight...
I tried to make a
complaint using Morrison's on-line complaints website. It told me I'd
already made a complaint in the past (I had), and that it
wouldn't take any more complaints from me.
I got to work, put on the
radio and did my overnight thing. And with my thing done I turned the
radio off and came home. This morning's journey home was so easy
compared with yesterday's. Yesterday a cycling club was having a road
race, and for ten miles of the A28 every fifty yards there was a
cyclist with head down, arse up and swerving all over the road. They
weren't there today; not having to swerve to avoid oncoming cyclists
on the wrong side of the road was so nice (compared with
yesterday's fun).
Once home I went to bed
for a bit. I didn't put on the CPAP device, and dspite having been
awake all night I only slept for two hours. I spent an hour or so
messaging the world via social media whilst "er indoors TM"
cleared up the carnage that "Furry Face TM"
had made of his teddy bear. How can one small dog spread the
fragments of an even smaller teddy bear over so much of the house?
We then went out for a
bit of a road trip to look at GPS units. For so long I've been able
to use ordnance survey maps when we go out walking. You don't realise
how much you come to depend on something until its not there any
more. Ordnance survey have put paid to free access to their maps via
geo-aps. After a couple of months of struggling I decided the only
way forward was to pay for the e-maps. After all when the paper map
shows for footpaths and the openstreetmap just shows a wood you know
there's going to be problems.
Firstly we went to
Cotswolds in Maidstone. They didn't have what I wanted and they
clearly weren't interested in helping me. So we went to Go Outdoors
in Canterbury. I went there the other day and wasn't impressed. Today
was very different; The staff bent over backwards to help; they had
the GPS unit I've been looking at; with thirty per cent off, and two
hundred quid's worth of ordnance survey maps thrown in too.
So I've turned to the
dark side of GPS geocaching... purely for decent maps. In many ways
it's a backward step from what I've been doing so far. But I shall
give it a try before dismissing it out of hand.
Now to read the
instructions..
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