I had something of an early night last night.
After an hour or so I was woken by a scrubbling sound. "Furry Shark TM"
was trying to get on to the bed. Still half-asleep I reached over the edge of
the bed and lifted her up. She immediately burrowed under the covers and bit me
on the arse.
I took her back downstairs to "er
indoors TM" who *said*
she was wondering where the puppy had gone but looked to be enjoying the peace
and quiet. I went back to bed, but couldn’t settle. Eventually I found myself out
of bed and watching a documentary about the making of the National Geographic
Mars show. I’d liked that show but for all that it was supposed to be
realistic, some bits weren’t. The director of the “making of” show all but admitted that scientific accuracy doesn’t
make for good viewing.
I eventually took myself back to bed shortly
after 3am and got three hours kip.
Over brekkie I sparked up the lap-top
and had a look-see on-line. I had a “notiication”
supposedly from PayPal that my “acount”
had been “susspended”, and asking for
all my log-in details. You’d think people trying to perpetrate these scams
would at least check their spelling.
Facebook was quiet today. For once
people weren’t pretending to be surprised that celebrities eventually die.
As
I looked into cyber-space on my lap-top "er indoors TM"
did so on her phone. Her lap-top is currently out of action on account of “someone” having chewed through the
cable.
We got the leads on to the dogs and set
off to Old Wives Lees. A couple of days ago a new series of geocaches had gone
live there. I’d been intending to go for a geo-walk today and having seen
someone else suggest this series I was only too happy to join in. Seven of us (and two small dogs) went for a walk. It
was a good walk, even if a little cold and foggy. I rather liked this walk; for
the most part it was quite close to my morning drive to work. I had no idea
these beautiful places existed. I even took a few photos as we walked.
Geocache-wise it was a good walk. A
mixture of hides; some easy, others not so. Our route took us past one cache
I’d visited before and failed to find; I was pleased that we unearthed it
today. However they were rather spaced out. The route was one of sixteen
caches; it could easily have been one of thirty hides.
A couple of the hides had been rather
challenging; we were out for rather longer than we’d expected and were rather
cold by the time we got home. Both dogs had a shower; it was puppy’s first
bath-time. It went rather well.
The afternoon was then a rather lazy
one. I had a look at the household accounts. I can account for every penny that
I’ve spent; I could just do with having more of them. And I spent half an hour
sorting out my undercrackers. I shall need my red ones for tomorrow (what with it being New Year) and they
took some finding. Mind you I did find *loads*
of undercrackers and socks. Why do I keep buying new ones when I have so many?
I
also signed up for the “walk 1000 miles in 2017 challenge” – a friend has done
it this year. It isn’t about raising money for “charidee”; it is all about feeling better. Supposedly. Personally,
I’d be interested to find out how far I do walk. I’ve measured our standard
walk round the park at being one mile; I shall take the GPS unit out when I go
with "Daddy’s Little Angel TM" and "Stormageddon
- Bringer of Destruction TM" and see how far we go. I
suppose that the target is to do 1000 miles in the year. That’s do-able – isn’t
it?
Over dinner we watched a few episodes of “Timeless”.
It has been advertised an awful lot lately; it is quite a good show but rather
derivative of all sorts of other sci-fi shows and books. The first three
episodes were OK; we’ll see how it pans out.
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