I got up this morning and
saw my dog was still fast asleep. He didn't stir at all as I scoffed
my toast. Mind you it was a different story when "er indoors
TM" got up. He makes no secret as to who
is his favourite.
Having got out of his pit
he sensed that today wasn't a work day; it was to be a "Fudgey
Adventure" and he immediately became very over-excited and
wouldn't eat his breakfast. Silly pup.
The plan for today had
been to go to Bethersden to start planning out a new geo-walk that I
would be setting. But overnight a series of twenty seven geocaches
had appeared in the Rolvenden area. I asked on-line to see if anyone
fancied a walk. Gordon did, and we met up in Rolvenden and went for a
little stroll. Clearly marked footpaths, straightforward geo-finds,
we had a good walk. We saw steam trains and bee hives, "Furry
Face TM" was allowed off the lead on
several occassions and (in a novel break with tradition) he
was as good as gold.
Those that had set the
caches had given us instructions to fetch one cache home; they'd
actually put out twenty-eight caches but one was too close to an
exisiting puzzle cache. We found the pot we were to retrieve. It was
less than an arm's length from the puzzle cache which was not in any
way disguised and was out in the open in full view. How did they
miss that?
As the series had only
gone out last night we wondered if we might get a First to Find or
two... we got one. As we approached hide #14 (which we knew was
still waiting to be found for the first time) we saw a familiar
young mother with her brood. I jokingly loudly announced "I
know what you are looking for" to which the children both
denied looking for anything. Mother told the children that all was
well, that dog was Fudge, and the children then told us where they'd
already searched. No one recognises me; everyone recognises my dog...
With a little effort we
got a joint First to Find here. Happy dance. But Mum and littluns had
already taken the only other FTF that was still waiting.
The first cache on the
series was First to Finded at quarter to eleven last night by an
intrepid team who then did the walk in the dark. Missing only two of
the caches they logged the last one five hours later shortly before
4am. I know I like chasing the First to Find, but I must admit that
with the recent rain the paths were slippery enough in broad daylight
today. Personally I'm not a fan of night caching.
With only a few hundred
yards to go to the end of the walk the heavens opened. I had planned
to stop off in Bethersden to start planning my new walk, but with the
heavy rain we said our goodbyes and went home. With one bonus cache
on the route (hidden by a "gary tardis"!) we'd
amassed twenty-eight geo-finds over a four-hour (and six miles)
walk. I might pop out to Bethersden tomorrow morning for a walk. We
shall see...
Once home "Furry
Face TM" had a bath. For all that he'd
been good, he had been spuddling in stagnant water and he was
somewhat "fragrant". And with him bathed I had a
shower myself before popping to the KFC for a spot of lunch.
With a snoring dog on my
lap I scoffed my KFC whilst watching last night's episode of "Dark
Matter". With only one more episode to go the series is now
getting rather good. Will Wheaton (of Star Trek fame) has now
appeared as the evil arch-baddie. He's quite good as an evil
arch-baddie.
As I watched telly
"Daddies Little Angel TM" phoned;
she was about as over-excited as my dog had been when he realised
today was a "Fudgey Adventure". Good news... she's
been accepted onto the waiting list for a council house in Ashford.
It sounds a trivial matter; it's not. Getting onto that list takes
some doing.
Being Tues the clans
gathered. In Folkestone tonight where we used ChromeCast technology
to watch the live video feed from the International Space Station.
We saw UFOs as well...
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