I woke at 4am and lay
awake, finally dozing off ten minutes before my alarm then woke me.
Over brekkie I posted yesterday's blog entry. I tried to do so last
night and gave up (in a temper) after twenty minutes. Our
internet connection simply doesn't work in the evenings.
It works fine most
mornings, and over brekkie I had a look-see on-line. There were all
the racist and small-minded nastiness posts on social media from
"Britain First". Whilst it is common knowledge that
all these asylum seekers are coming over here and living high on the
hog at our expense, and using tax-payers' money to fund their twenty
wives and hundreds of children (none of whom speak English) I
defy those posting these lies to quote one case of which they
personally have any knowledge (as opposed to the lies that they
have read or heard about third-hand).
I then checked my on-line
leccie and gas bill. A couple of days ago I was over five hundred
pounds in credit with them. Now I've given them a meter reading I am
only fifty quid in the black. Four hundred and fifty pounds for five
months leccie and gas... is that good? I have no idea.
We settled "Furry
Face TM" ("Daddies Little Angel
TM" was coming to see to him later)
and went to the railway station. Last week I'd confirmed the price of
train tickets; today they were four pounds more than I'd been quoted.
But I didn't make a fuss.
Three of us set off for
London for a geo-outing, meeting Aleta at Maidstone. There was a
minor hiccup as we got near Bromley. There was apparently an
unexploded bomb near Victoria. But we were only delayed for ten
minutes. And as we made our way to the tube we met four more of our
number. And so eight of us arrived at our planned meeting point at
Temple tube station only a few minutes later than planned.
There was then an
embarrassing episode. We stood about waiting for the rest of our
group to arrive. After a while I had a plan to go get the nearby
geocache to save some time whilst we waited for everyone else to
arrive. I turned the corner to find everyone else *had*
arrived and had been waiting for us.
Thirteen of us then
geo-wandered around London. Our plan was to follow the London
Rainbow series of geocaches picking up a few others on the way.
We had to tweak this plan somewhat when it became apparentl that we
weren't getting along quite as fast as we might have been going. But
despite staying focussed and not wandering here and there we still
logged twenty six geo-finds each including my milestone #6000.
I must admit I was a
little disheartened when the rain came at mid-day (some six hours
earlier than forecast) but it didn't last for long. And as the
rain stopped we found a wonderful little street with no end of rather
good food outlets. I scoffed a very good baguette. And as I scoffed
it we found the pub in which The Goons (Spike Milligan, Harry
Secombe et al) used to drink. As as we walked round we also found
the house where Lawrence of Arabia lived, and we even found the
Vulgarian embassy (from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang). Dave said it
was the Albanian embassy, but I wasn't having any of it.
Once at Pimlico we had
done the first leg of our day. We found the nearest tube station
(Covent Garden) and then took the tube up to Camden. After a
little walk we were soon in the market. We found what we needed for
our treasure hunt, and I found a stall selling mulled wine. Only one
glass, but it made for a rather good treat.
We then had the only real
disaster of the day (and it wasn't *that* bad really). Our GPS
told us we were quite some way from our next target in Abbey Road. So
we took the bus. Or (to be precise) half of us took the bus.
When half of us were on the driver closed the door on the rest of our
party. So they followed on the next bus. in retrospect we should all
have walked. the bus merely wasted twenty minutes of our time taking
us to a point equally far away from our destination. Admitedly the
bus took us to Abbey Road. However it took us to the wrong end of
Abbey Road. And Abbey Road is a *long* road.
But it didn't take *that*
long to walk to the Abbey Road studios. and just there is a web-cam.
There are about a dozen geo-web-cams in all of the UK. And this one
made for my six thousandth geo-find.
Another bus ride and tube
ride had us at Paddington station. I had a much-deserved bottle of
"bitter and twisted", then we went and found the
bronze statue of Paddington Bear.
By now time was getting
on so we made a couple more geo-finds then said our goodbyes and made
our various ways home.
It was as well that
"Daddies Little Angel TM" had seen
to "Furry Face TM" as we were
rather late home. But I still ran him round the roads quickly. "er
indoors TM" got some fish and chips and we
sat down for a rather good bit of tea.
I took quite
a few photos whilst we were out. I put them on-line and looked at
them for a while.
I've had a *really*
good day out today...
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