I had a rather late night
last night. By the time I'd messed about coming home from bringing
astronomy to the masses it was after 11pm. I then had a complaint
about how I'd not done some geo-homework properly and by the time I'd
doone it all again (hopefully properly this time) didn't get
to bed until 1.30am.
Last night whilst at Down
House as the astro club's event was packing up I found myself
browsing in the gift shop. One of the people working there made a
great fuss of trying to open one of the tills even though I didn't
want to buy anything. And having failed to open the till he made even
more fuss by getting his mate to open another till. After all their
faffing about I rather felt obliged to buy something. So I bought a
jar of their all butter raspberry curd and had some on my morning
toast at brekkie time.
Even with the ten per
cent discount I was given, Morrison's raspberry jam is every bit as
good, and is three pounds cheaper. It never fails to amaze me how
suckers pay for this staff. (From the bloke who just paid for
it...)
As I scoffed my vastly
over-priced brekkie i had a look-see on-line. I discovered a website
where you can tell the world about the
crap drivers you see whilst out and about. I've often though
about doing someting like this myself. I can see myself posting here
in the future. In the meantime I had a look on tat website;
fortunately I've not been reported. Yet.
We then went out for a
little walk. Regular readers of this drivel may recall that on
Tuesday I solved a geo-puzzle. Given an arial photograph of some
disused structure we had to locate it. I solved the puzzle and today
we walked out to it. I won't spoil the puzzle by saying where it
was... but I will say that we couldn't park within a mile of the
place.
We had a rather good walk
out to this building. as we went we saw oystercatchers, blue tits,
bullfinches andd some rather large unidentified mammal. Personally I
think it was a rabbit but what do I know? There was a minor hiccup
as we walked; the path ended at a river and the only way across was
to traverse some pipes. But with pipes traversed we found ourselves
only a hundred yards from our goal.
there was then a second
hiccup when we found a swamp between ourselves and our goal, but I
had this idea that we might walk round the swamp. It was an idea that
worked.
Soon enough we were at
the building; I had got the right solution. We are still unsure as to
what the building actually was; but from conversations with other
people who've been there I think it was probably originally a
Napoleonic ammunition storage facility. However now it has been left
to rot.
Using expert geo-skills
we found the hidden tupperware within minutes, and then spent some
time exploring the place. It was quite interesting; however in many
ways it is yet another part of our heritage which has been left to
rot.
With time pressing we
moved on; however I may well return.
Pausing only briefly to
wave at passing ships we found another nearby concealed tupperware
box, then drove down to Teynham for the monthly geo-meet. Talking
tupperware over a few pints with like-minded people is always good. A
pub lunch is not to be turned down, and I learned a thing or two
about the geo-software. Mind you I did have a minor stuff up with my
raffle tickets, but if nothing else it gave us all a laugh.
Once home I had a shower
and a pizza, and with "er indoors TM"
off out with her mates I settled down in front of the telly with my
dog at my side, After a rather busy day you can't beat staring at the
telly. I stared at it for a couple of moments... and woke up hours
later...
I
took a few photos earlier in the day. I posted them on-line then
went to bed.
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