I slept like a log last
night. Perhaps the night shifts had taken their toll. I woke just
after 7am which for me is something of a lie-in. I got up, had a
swift brekkie and checked the weather forecast. It wasn't good, but
time was pressing; I really did need to firm up my plans for the New
Year's Day walk which I'd offered to organise. So I popped the lead
onto "Furry Face TM" and drove out
to Great Chart.
I'd provsionally worked
out a route in my mind and (would you beleive it) my plan
pretty much worked. Unlike my Bethersden route (which needed some
serious re-routing and several re-visits) today's walk went
nearly one hundred percent as planned. There was one minor hiccup out
near Daniel's Water where the landowner seems to have deliberately
blocked off a footpath. But to their credit they have made all the
other footpaths crystal clear with well marked signs.
As we walked we met
horses and goats. "Furry Face TM"
chased squirrels, rabbits and "f-birds" as best as
he could whilst being on his lead. Mind you despite being on his lead
he did get muddy.
We did do a little
back-tracking as we walked; but we've got nineteen potential places
in which to hide tupperware along a route of four miles. We walked
for a shade over two hours which I am hoping will be just right for
New Year's day.
I
took a few photos whilst we were out. Once home (and dog
bathed) I put them on-line. Perhaps I shouldn't have had KFC for
lunch, but it was tasty. And with lunch scoffed I then did the
geo-on-line-thing to see if the potential hides I came up with
earlier were acceptable. They are now in the hands of the geo-feds.
Here's hoping.
As I fiddled about
on-line so the washing machine did its thing with some sheets. Last
night when tumble drying it sounded as though it was chewing on sheet
metal. Today it sounded fine. Perhaps it has a problem tumble-drying
or perhaps it doesn't like my smalls?
It struck me that I could
do with some more film pots so I wandered up into Ashford to get
some. Whilst there I thought I'd go into the mobile phone shop and
have a whinge. The signal I get with EE is generally frankly terrible
if I'm not in an urban area. "er indoors TM"
gets excellent signal with Vodafone in places where I get no signal
at all. I've phoned and emailed the people at EE and been fobbed off
with being told to take my phone to one of their shops to have it
tested. So I went into the shop and stood and waited. After fifteen
minutes of waiting I walked out. Ashford has two branches of EE so I
went to the second branch where I again stood and waited for another
fifteen minutes before walking out again.
Mind you the milk shake
shop was open (for once) so I treated myself to a battenburg
milk shake. Not too shabby at all (!) It was a *real*
battenburg milk shake. I watched them make it. They chucked two large
lumps of battenburg cake into a mixer with ice cream and milk and
mashed it up before my eyes. They make milk shakes out of pretty much
anything. I've had shakes from black forest gateaux, bakewell tarts
and even werther's originals in the past.
"er indoors TM"
phoned. She was going off candlemongering this evening. Did I fancy
some KFC if she brought it home for a quick bit of tea? KFC twice in
one day? Can't be bad. However I didn't tell her I'd had KFC for
lunch. She will find out by reading it here.
And with "er
indoors TM" off candlemongering I was left
"home alone" with my dog. Usually on Tuesdays the
clans gather but today people seemed to be busy.
I'm going to spend the
evening staring at the telly and hoping that this KFC-induced guts
ache subsides soon...
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