I slept like a log; eight hours sleep last
night. How about that!! Over brekkie I was pleased to see (via Facebook) that a colleague was having a birthday today; I could
post up my new You-Tube birthday video that I’ve made. The previous one was
over six years old. I shan’t post a link to the new one here; it will be a nice
surprise when a birthday comes along.
My little dog wouldn’t eat his brekkie today;
he always knows when I’ve got a walk planned for him. So eventually I gave up
trying and told him he could go hungry. We got in the car and set off to
Matfield. I arrived early, but Dick was already there. Aleta and Gordon soon
arrived, and we set off hunting geocaches. We do that from time to time.
We had a really good walk. The weather was
nowhere near as cold as I thought it might be; I took my fleece off right at
the start. The walk was a tad hilly though. But just over six miles was just
right for today.
It was a good first outing for my new shooting
jacket. After the last one fell apart after a couple of hours use I actually
got a far better one (at half the price)
from eBay and I did the trick today.
And I think I might be getting used to
geocaching in imperial units. I’ve always liked to measure smaller distances in
metres, but longer distances in miles. “Hannah”
(my sat-nav) does either/or.
I took a few photos as we walked. If
nothing else my mum likes to see them.
Cache-wise it was an odd walk. I’d seen the
geo-map and had suggested we make the walk up as we went along, and that was
pretty much what we did. There didn’t seem to be any logical order or sequence
to where we were going, and despite having worked out what seemed to be a “best route” there was still a lot of
back-tracking. The individual caches were in reasonable order (because previous finders had done all the
required maintenance), but the GPS co-ordinates were up to twenty metres
out. And there is no denying that we could just have done with some instruction
or guidance from whoever it was that had hidden them.
It turns out that they were hidden by a scout
group some two years ago. They were put out under a geo-profile which has never
logged a find, and which hasn’t been active in over a year. The series was *far* better than that put out by some
local scouts, but even so could have been so much better.
Once home I slobbed in front of the telly
catching up on what the SkyPlus box had recorded. Sunday’s episode of “The Last Ship” was rather good. However (as I’ve said before) the show does suffer from most of the action
happening quite a bit away form that ship.
And yesterday’s episode of “Dark Matter” was quite good; it was the
end of season cliff-hanger in which all of our heroes were blown up on an
exploding space station. Apparently there will be another season of the show so
I’ll be interested to see how they get out of that one.
Being Tuesday the clans gathered. This evening
in Arden Drive. Insults were bandied, news swapped, and an episode of “Gotham” watched. I’d forgotten how good
that show was.
And my lego advent calendar has arrived…
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