I woke in pain this morning; I think I
overdid the furniture moving last night and my elbow was *really* hurting.
Over brekkie I watched last week’s
episode of “South Park”. Whilst I
quite liked it I got the distinct impression that I had no real idea of what
was going on. I then struggled with my phone for a while. Last night it
developed a bug in that the wi-fi would not turn on. After a lot of struggling
with it I tried telling it not to scan for networks and it started working
again.
I then checked emails. I had two for the
astro club; one was an advert to improve our Google rankings, one was an advert
for improving our organic audience development strategy. I’ve now removed the
email link from the club’s website and put a picture of the email address there
instead. If people want to contact the club they can read words in the picture.
Hopefully spambots can’t read.
I also had a message from one of my
loyal readers recommending the “alternate
day fasting” diet in which you eat normally on one day and seriously
restrict what you eat on the next. It may well be worth a try.
I popped the lead onto my dog and we
went out. We’d arranged to meet friends for a little geocaching session not far
from Bessel’s Green; Google’s sat-naving probably took us about twenty miles
out of our way to get there. But for various reasons everyone else was delayed
and we were actually first to get to the meeting point. It wasn’t long before
we were all together, and four of us (and
two dogs) set off on a rather damp walk. Bearing in mind how dry this year
has been, it was rather odd to be walking along muddy and squelchy paths today.
But we had a good walk. We were intrigued by one metal stile which had been
comprehensively destroyed (how did that
happen?) and we were amazed to find a full bottle of gin in the
undergrowth. Hunting for a geocache; found a bottle of gin. How many people can
say that has happened to them? I took a few photos whilst we walked. It
was a rather pretty walk; it was only a shame the day wasn’t brighter.
We walked for two hours; billed as a
walk of two miles, “Hannah” measured
it at three and a third miles. I’m of the opinion that my sat-nav
over-estimates walking distances.
Geocache-wise it was a good walk. There
was a range of hides; some trickier than others. It would be an ideal route to
take someone new to the hobby on to show them what sort of things to look out
for. But I wouldn’t recommend it to the inexperienced; there were some rather
difficult ones there. Personally I would have upped the difficulty setting on
many of the caches (but that is just me).
Some were works of genius, but as is so often the case, the cleverer the hide
the more fragile it becomes.
We got back to the cars just as the rain
started. We said our goodbyes and came home. I came home to find "er
indoors TM" stashing meat into the freezer. She’s taken to
ordering meat in bulk. It is *really*
good stuff and it is really cheap too.
And with meat stashed "er indoors TM"
went back to work. Me and my dog settled in front of the telly for the
afternoon. His snoring kept me awake. Firstly through an episode of “Thunderbirds Are Go” which was rather
good, then through another episode of “Game
of Thrones”. I then voomed round
with the hoover and watched Sunday’s episode of “Planet Earth II” over a cup of coffee. I must admit this episode
was a disappointment. The first one was about obscure islands and the second
one about mountains. I’ve not seen many wildlife programs set in these
locations. But this third episode was set in the jungles; I’ve seen several
programs about jungles.
My phone pinged. A month ago I ordered
some new trousers from eBay. The ones which were sent were the wrong waist and
leg size so I sent them back. I’ve finally got a refund, but no refund for my
postage costs for returning the trousers. Time for negative feedback… that
usually elicits a response.
Being Tuesday the clans gathered. Today
in Romney Road. Insults were bandied (as
they often are) and then we watched the Christmas episode of “The Flash” – last Christmas’s episode.
We are a tad behind with the show…
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