I slept like a log until
a certain dog jumped on me in the small hours. He eventually made
himself comforable and just as I finally nodded off again he started
thrashing about and growling. Did you know that dogs dream too?
Over brekkie I had a
look-see on-line. Not a lot had happened overnight really. It rarely
does.
Bearing in mind what a
grotty day it was yesterday, this morning was beautiful. Yesterday
when "My Boy TM" and I were free
we had to postpone work in the garden. Today when neither of us were
able to do the fencing the weather was ideal for it.
Maybe I could have got
the job done as I was on the late shift, but I didn't want to rush
the job. It will keep. So as I had a few minutes I took "Furry
Face TM" for a little walk round the park.
We went up to the park;
as we approached the park gates I realised something was odd; the
vehicular access gates were open. They are never open. And then I saw
a police car driving slowly down the footpath. And then another
police car on another footpath. In all there were (at least)
five police cars in the park too say nothing of a couple of dozen
police men and women. And then I saw the object of their attention.
There was a horse loose in the park. A rather average horse. He had
a bridle on a rope on him, so if you could get close enough to him,
capturing him would be easy. Several of the police women got close
enough to pet and stroke him, but every time they reached for his
bridle he ran off.
I stood with quite a
large crowd of onlookers watching this spectacle, but after a few
minutes it became apparent that the horse wasn't going to be captured
any time soon so we came home through Bowens Field.
Horses randomly appear in
fields all over Ashford but I've never seen one in Viccie park
before. The fields in which they randomly appear are usually secure
ones. But for all that there is a gate for vehicles there is
nothing at all to keep pedestrians (and horses) in or out of
Viccie Park. I can't help but wonder if some felonious micreants had
placed the horse there as a distraction to keep the police occupied
whilst they perfored some major heist elsewhere.
And so to work. I had
planned on visiting "Daddies Little Angel TM"
and"Stormageddon - Bringer of Destruction TM"
but they were in uproar having carpets laid. I thought I'd best
steer well clear of that. So (being a geo-calendar day) I set
off down the motorway to Junction 11 where there were several
potential geo-targets. I hoped that even I should be able to find one
of them.
Having got my geo-find
for the day I drove up Stone Street to Canterbury. I stopped off at
the garden centre on the way; their tea shop does a wonderful coffee
and cake and has free Wi-Fi too. I had five minutes to myself whilst
checking up on the world of social media.
I then carried on to
work. As I drove my car made a rather alarming beep. The low fuel
warning. I've not run it so low before; it alarms when it thinks it
has less than fifty miles of petrol left. So we filled up at
Morrisons, and having half an hour before I needed to be at work I
had a look in Go Outdoors. I only intended to browse, but I came out
with two pairs of trousers and a jumper. They were something of a
bargain.
What with the vagaries of
night shifts and weekend working and some days annual leave I've not
worked a day shift for several weeks. I'd rather got into the
mind-set of doing my own thing at my own pace. Having to work as part
of a team came as something of a novelty today.
Shortly after I started
work I looked out of the window. What had been glorious sunshine only
hours before was now torrential rain. And five minutes after the rain
came a brief snowstorm. Bright sunshine soon followed. And then rain
again. The day was somewhat changeable to say the least. Probably
just as well I was at work today....
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