It
was a very warm night; I didn't sleep that well. I eventually gave up
trying to sleep and came downstairs shortly after 5am. I let Rolo out
to do his business, and once I'd done mine I went out to find him. He
wasn't in the garden. I spent a frantic five minutes trying to find
him only to discover he'd gone back to his bed.
Over
brekkie I watched the most recent episode of The Sky at Night which
I'd recorded onto the SkyPlus box a while ago. It featured the
whirlpool galaxy; it was rather good. That's something I've not said
about his show for some time.
Being
a geo-calendar day I set off to work rather early. There was one
cache which was vaguely mid-way between Ashford and Canterbury. I say
"vaguely" - in the back of beyond would be closer to
the truth. I navigated the back lanes and finally found my quarry in
a rather pretty valley.
Feeling
flushed with geo-success I thought I'd get a second cache. Today is
the last calendar-filling day when I am scheduled to be at work, and
there was a cache near work which I had been holding in reserve as a
back-up plan (even though I've failed to find it three times
previously). I'd seen it had been recently replaced to I went and
thought I'd have a go. After five minutes I gave up with the GPS and
went with the hint which had been given, and found it some fifteen
metres away on the other side of the road from where the GPS would
have me looking.
I
got to work and cracked on with the early shift. I had a rather busy
day. Can't say I liked it very much. I consoled myself with McScoff
then went on to astro club. It was a very good evening. An excellent
talk, and an excellent stallarium show from Stevey. Things seem to be
looking up with the club.
Oh
- and the referendum results are in. I feel it speaks volumes that
Nigel Farage (who was one of the leading llights of the "out"
campaign) is disowning statements
made by his campaigners, people who voted "out"
have changed
their minds less than a day later, and sterling has plummeted
to a
thirty-year low.
But
what's done is done. Generations yet unborn will look back on today
as being momentous. I *really* hope those generations will see
today's result as having been the right one. Of course we will never
actually know as we will never be able to compare what happens with
what might have been.
But
those who propose future referenda would do well to reflect on today.
Those who were in the majority were not gracious in victory; those
who were in the minority were bitter in defeat. There is now
seriously bad feeling where there was once friendship.
I
suppose that it will all blow over. Time will tell. It always does...
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