I slept like a log last
night, finally surfacing from my pit shortly after 8am. For me that
is something of a lie-in. Mind you my little dog was still fast
asleep. He eventually hauled himself out of his basket when he got
the idea that there was toast to be scrounged (he didn't get any).
We could have done so
much today. We could have spent the weekend at geo-camp; but it is
too cold to go camping this time of year.
We could have gone to
visit the geocachers at geo-camp; but Bexhill was a long way to go
just to watch other people camping.
We could have gone to the
Ashford beer festival, but today was just that little bit too cold to
be sitting on wet grass spending a fortune to give myself a headache.
I'd already spent far too much on beer last night (and got the
headache) anyway.
So finding myself at
something of a loose end this morning I set the washing machine on an
overflowing laundry basket. As it chewed on my undercrackers I went
through my letter rack. I’d not been there for a while; it took a
couple of hours to clear.
There was a letter from
the optician. I need to make an appointment to get my eyes checked.
The bank had written to
me to give me an annual summary of the charges made on my accounts.
There hadn’t been any. So they’d spent time and money to tell me
that.
In a similar vein I had a
letter from the dentist saying that they were under new management
but it wouldn’t actually affect me in any way at all. I wonder how
many other letters they’ve sent out like that? And how much that
cost them?
There were several
vouchers from “Go Outdoors” all of which expired last
Tuesday.
There was a letter from
the pet insurance people saying that Fudge’s insurance policy would
carry on. It was as well that it did; otherwise it would have lapsed
a month ago. Mind you it is a fiver a month more than it has been for
the last year now that he weighs over ten kilograms. His diet’s not
going as well as it might.
I finally got round to
updating the household’s entry on the electoral register; we’d
only had two reminders.
There was a reminder from
the R.N.I.B. that I’d kindly increased my monthly donation to them.
(Had I?)
There was a nice
newsletter from the Aspinall Foundation that went straight into the
bin; but not before I’d taken out the free admission ticket. They
send me one of those every quarter; I use maybe one in ten of them.
Vitality Life sent me an
annual policy review statement. “Vitality Life” is a
somewhat ironic name as they won’t actually stump up until I croak.
The car insurance people
told me that the car insurance will continue. I’m glad about that
because it actually continued a few weeks ago whilst I wasn’t
looking. For the next year the policy is actually a little cheaper;
only £1.50 a month cheaper, but every little helps.
Both of out geocaching
accounts were up for renewal…. Together they cost fifty quid, but
realistically that’s not bad. Each account renewal was only twenty
five quid and I spend far more than that every time I go down the
pub. Bearing in mind how much I go hunting tupperware the annual fee
works out at about fifty pence per week.
And I updated the astro
club’s accounts. For some reason the bank has now decided only to
send statements once every four months.
After a hot cross bun for
lunch we took "Furry Face TM" for
a walk. He usually has a walk first thing in the morning; he'd not
had one today and was becoming somewhat fractious. We went down to
the Romney Marsh and had a minor geo-wander. If nothing else thise
geo-lark shows us somewhere different to go for a walk.
It was a good geo-walk;
if somewhat overgrown in places. I think I would have enjoyed it more
were my arm not quite so painful. This tennis elbow is getting to be
a serious nuisance. It was also a shame that "Furry Face TM"
had to disgrace himslef by rolling in fox poo.
Once home I showered the
fox poo from my dog, and after a rather good bit of scoff "er
indoors TM" set off to the Saturday film
night. I set about the ironing whilst getting three hours worth of
drivel watched from the SkyPlus box. We've now got forty six percent
of the disk space free on that SkyPlus box. Can't be bad...
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