Over brekkie I uploaded
yesterday's blog entry. I tried to do that last night; however last
night the internet connection simply wasn't working. This morning I
spend a while going here, there and thither on-line with no problems
at all for half an hour until the thing stopped.
Let's hope that whatever
monitoring of the line that is being done by the Internet provider
picks this up.
We got our stuff together
and drove round to collect Suzy-dog who had also got her stuff
together. We then drove up to Southfleet (in North Kent) where
six of us (and three dogs) set off on a little geo-wander. We
started off on one guided walk, and half way round diverted onto
another, and from there on followed a route which I'd rather cobbled
together from poring over the map for the last week. But it seemed to
work well. I wasn't exactly sure of the route we'd take until we were
actuallly walking; as we walked we tried for thirty-nine geo-targets,
we got thirty-eight of them.
I quite liked this little
walk. Fudge only disgraced himself by running off after pheasants
once, and didn't roll in a single turd (fox or otherwise). As
we walked we found tables for our picnic lunch, a supermarket that
sold blister plasters and about two thirds of the way round we found
a pub where I got a pint of a local ale. Very nice!
And shortly after this we
met a little dog who looked incredibly like "Furry Face TM".
His name was Banjo. Funnily enough we've met another Fudge-look-alike
called Banjo before. I can't help but wonder if it is a common name
for Patagonian Tripe-Hounds.
It was a very cold and
windy day; but despite that we had a good time. There was perhaps a
minute's worth of rain in the early afternoon, but it went as quickly
as it came. And by one of those amazing co-incidences we got back to
the cars about two minutes before the torrential rain hit.
I
took a few photos whilst we walked. As "er indoors TM"
set off to her Sunday night bowling I posted then on-line (as the
Internet connection seemed to be working) and then scoffed some
pizza whilst watching an episode of "Dad's Army"
that I don't think I've seen before. Rather a good episode really. I
then set GSAK doing my logging (it's a geo-thing) whilst my
little dog snored. We walked over twelve miles today; it has been a
little while since my little dog has done such a distance. And as he
snored my face glowed. I caught the sun today. In February !!
"War and Peace"
is on in a few minutes. I shall watch that as I stitch up the rip in
my walking jacket. It is a nice jacket with lots of useful pockets.
It should not be confused with a "gilet"
which (contrary to popular opinion) is actually a form of
frilly dress often worn with rather saucy ladies underwear.... (true
fact!)
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