I slept well, and over
brekkie watched an episode of "Dad's Army" that the
SkyPlus box had recorded. If the BBC are playing them in order we are
now past the black and white episodes and on to the colour ones. I
had no idea so many had been made in black and white.
I had a little look-see
on-line. Not much had changed in cyberspace overrnight. Mid you the
nutters at MessageToEagle (dot com) were pushing a theory that
ancient aliens visited Earth to steal all the gold to make
black energy. (No - I have no idea what black energy is
either)
However in reality there
was consternation. Overnight Kent Police had activated Operation
Stack again. For those of my loyal readers who aren't aware of the
fun we're having, "Operation Stack" is occurring
seemingly all the time now. Whenever it is not possible to cross the
channel (for various reasons) the local motorway is closed and
used as a car park for all the traffic which is waiting to cross the
channel. It is incredibly annoying to those stuck in traffic,
effectively stuffs up the entire county's traffic, and in true
British fashion people have a good old whinge about it on social
media.
Personally I feel they'd
do far better by following the French example by actually doing
something; after all to express displeasure at their misfortunes the
French cause Operation Stack for us.
Mind you I'm not sure
exactly what we could do. Maybe blockade the M20 at Junction 1
southbound to stop the lorries coming our way in the first place
maybe?
Bearing in mind the
traffic chaos I set off a little earlier than I might have done for
today's little walk. A couple of days ago I'd posted on a geo-forum
asking if anyone was free for a stroll in the week. I suggested a
few possible routes, and there was some interest in a little walk
near Doddington. The geo-series was one I'd originally seen go live
on Good Friday. But I was working then. Today seven of us (and one
dog) had something of a geo-toddle. Rebecca and Chrissie and four
under-fives came with me on a Wheri-wander. I had this idea that the
Doddington Wherigo would be ideal for the littluns. It would be fun
and appealling to them as it was based on helping the Easter bunny,
and because it was billed as an hour's walk it wouldn't be too much
for little legs.
Our plan was to do the
Wherigo, and pick up any geocaches we walked past on our way. Perhaps
I'm an old softie, but I absolutely loved walking with the littluns.
I had to consciously slow myself down; I tend to race ahead at the
best of times, but I managed to walk at a sensible pace for much of
the time. A combination of SmartPhones, wheri-compatible Garmins and
a tablet kept the littluns attention and despite a rather biting wind
I think the littluns had fun. They enjoyed the geocaching and the
hunting out of clues for both a multi and the wherigo.
We found seven geocaches
(four icon types) over three and a half hours, (I even
took
a few photos whilst we were walking). Not the most prolific
of days, but I really enjoyed being out with the littluns. If only
the fruits of my loin would be more keen on walking (and hunting
sandwich boxes) I could take the grandchildren up hill and down
dale occassionally.
All too soon it was home
time. I took a rather circuitous route hme via Hothfield just to make
sure I would be nowhere near Operation Stack's overflow, and having
got some petrol we came home. "Furry Face TM"
went straight to sleep and over a spot of lunch I watched last
night's episode of "Dark Matter" in which our heroes
discovered a rather saucy sex-android. They all then did what those
of dubious morals would do to sex-androids. Personally I wasn't the
least bit surprised when the sex-android went haywire and tried to
kill everyone. Possibly I've watched too much sci-fi over the years
but most androids tend to run amok shortly after discovery. It seems
to be a feature of androids. Hopefully scientists yet unborn will
solve this problem when eventually they start making the things for
real.
And hopefully they will
have enough of a moral compass to just say no to the entire concept
of sex-androids.
As the sex-android went
haywire for the umpteenth time I had a phone cal from "First
Solutions" who wannted to speak wiith me about the loan I
took out at some unspecified date during the last thirteen years.
Soometimes I just hang up on these nuisance phone calls. Other times
I deliberately waste their time for as long as possible; I see this
as a public service saving others from the harrassment.
Today I strung them on
for at least ten minutes before telling them I had been deliberately
wasting their time.
"er indoors TM"
came home, woke me up, and told me a new geocache had gone live only
a mile away. We popped the lead onto "Furry Face TM",
flew out chasing the First to Find and pipped Smidge (or Smudge?)
to the post. FTF - happy dance.
With our usual Tuesday
plans on hold we then took "Furry Face TM"
down to Ham Street for a little walk. I ache a little now...
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