Over brekkie we had that
very rare thing; a laugh-out-loud moment in "Are You Being
Served" in which during ballet practice Mr Lucas
inadvertently kicked Mr Humphries in the goolies.
It is commonly said that
simple things please simple minds, but I found it hilarious.
I then got my gear
together for today's walk. "Hannah" (my GPS unit)
was fully charged this time. But just in case I had got rechargable
batteries which I'd put in to juice up overnight. Are they supposed
to get hot as they charge?
I put the lead onto
"Furry Face TM", opened the door
and saw torrential rain. But the weather forecast for the day was
that it was going to be bright so we took a chance. We were right to
do so; the rain stopped within five minutes.
Earlier in the week I'd
asked if anyone was free for a geo-wander today. Sometimes people
are; sometimes they aren't. But Richard had some spare time so we met
up in the general vicinity of Orpington and wandered about. Our
planned geo-stroll only took a couple of hours so we then went on and
did another. We had a really good walk; beautiful views, wonderful
scenery. And even a crafty First to Find along the way. I say "first"
- there's some chap on-line who's claiming he did the secret
geo-dance six hours before us.
Perhaps he was; I don't doubt his e-claim but we found a blank log
sheet when we arrived. (Rules is rules!)
We did get a few of our
geo-sums wrong on the way; some of our mistakes were easily
recitfied; others (involving Russian spies) not so. But we had
an excellent walk; even if I did forget to take any photos.
I came home and had my
fourth go with GSAK. GSAK is an amazing bit of software which does
absolutely eveything you could ever ask for (provided you only
ever ask for geo-things). There's no denying that I had to phone
"er indoors TM" at one point, but
on the whole I think I've sussed the software.
The Rear Admiral called
round and we went on a minor geo-mission locally; pausing only to
meet up with "er indoors TM" for
some McDinner. And with half a dozen caches logged we went off to the
astro club committee meeting.
It went surprisingly
well. Or, not so surprisingly really....
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