It starts getting light
shortly after 5am these days. I was wide awake long before dawn this
morning. I gave up trying to sleep and was shaved, eating brekkie and
watching "Plebs" before 6am. With little else to do
I took my dog for a walk much earlier than usual.
As we went out I could
see my car was covered in ice. We went up to Bowens Field where we
met some strange woman who was shrieking at her dog and at every
other dog within shrieking range. She kept screaming at me to ask if
my dog was all right. I gave her a range of answers; I don't know
what answer she was hoping for but it was obvious I never suppplied
teh right answer.
We also met the two old
blokes who insist on giving treats to every dog they meet. I wish
they wouldn't. Once given a treat "Furry Face TM"
will then follow them rather than going where he is supposed to go. I
could see the dog treats in their hands; I managed to herd him away
before he saw the treats.
Whe came home after an
hour's wander, once home I noticed that the ice on my car had melted.
Mind you it still felt very cold.
I set off to work a
little earlier than I needed to; as I drove home on Monday morning
after the late shift a new geocache had gone live along my drive to
and from work. This morning (two days later) it was still
unfound so I thought I'd try my luck. I parked up about five hundred
yards from where I needed to be and (having got my wellies on)
I walked through the woods to where I hoped to find hidden
tupperware. It was a good morning to be out and about; I even saw a
couple of deer as I walked.
My hopes weren't high
when I saw the GPS was pointing over a barbed wire fence ten yards
into an open field. The hint given said "under ivy at base of
tree" - there was one obvious ivy covered tree the base of which
had clearly been recently ransacked. I had a look there and elsewhere
but after half an hour decided I'd drawn a blank.
Oh well... it had been a
pleasant walk.
I then drove on to
Morrisons. As I drove "Women's Hour" was on the
radio. I've been less than complementary about this show before.
Today they were up in arms because only one in six entries on
Wikipedia are about women. I would have thought that (bearing in
mind entries on Wikipedia cover pretty much absolutely everything and
anything) one in six was a rather high proportion.
I got to Morrisons, got
supplies, and moved on to Go Outdoors. I've been after a cheap
inflatable boat recently. They had inflatable canoes for two hundred
and fifty quid, and air beds for a fiver.
I shall go sailing on an
air bed....
And so to work. As is so
often the way when on a late shift, most of the day's excitement was
over by the time I'd got to work. I did what I had to, and came home
again.
The astro club had been
asked to put on a starggazing show for a load of French
schoolchildren (who were staying locally) this evening. But
being on a late finish didn't make going practical for me. Next time
maybe...
No comments:
Post a Comment