I slept like a log until 3am last night. Not surprising,
really. I went for a tiddle, and came back to bed to find I had to fight a
wolf-pack to be allowed any space on the bed. I then dozed fitfully until the
alarm went off.
Over brekkie I had a look at the Internet. One advert
piqued my interest; there was a photo of a nearly naked Lucy Lawless in the
clutches of a similarly un-clad lady with the caption “Lucy Lawless Finally Confirms The Rumour”. Being a very shallow
sort of person I couldn’t help but wonder what rumours were confirmed, but hoped
that being nearly naked and in the clutches of a similarly un-clad lady might
have something to do with it.
It didn’t.
The link went to some old rubbish about the TV series Xena
Warrior Princess. That was two seconds of my life wasted. Perhaps I shouldn’t
be so easily distracted by un-clad ladies.
I also had an email from the nice people at Pieroth
inviting me to their wine tasting event next Sunday at the Ashford
International Hotel. The part of me that went out on the beer last night wants
to go. The part of me that lays awake at night worrying about money knows this
would be a silly thing to do. Pieroth wines are good wines, but I’ve been to
these events before. They offer “tastes”
and within a few minutes you are at the point of having your pants as a hat and
singing songs about sailors when out comes the order forms and you find
yourself blowing over four hundred quid on a couple of dozen bottles of plonk
that you don’t actually want.
I shall give that a miss…
We got our stuff (and
dogs) together and drove up to Dartford where we met Karl, Tracey and Charlotte.
On New Year’s Day we had planned to go there and to walk the geo-series that
had gone out for the New Years Day event, but the weather was against us.
During the year we made plans to go there, but for various reasons events conspired
against us.
We finally got there today.
We met up at the recommended parking spot only to find that
there were dozens of notices saying that you couldn’t park there, and a parked
car had a parking ticket. So we drove up the road half a mile to somewhere
where we could park. We had a rather good walk across the marshes, round the rather
nice housing estate, and along the river Thames. The views of the Queen Elizabeth
bridge were rather amazing; despite having been over it so many times I had no
idea just how huge the thing was.
It was a warm autumn day; half way round we stopped an ice
cream van; we all like ice cream. And three quarters of the way round we found the
Pier hotel and had a well-deserved couple of pints.
Geocache-wise this was a rather good walk. We found all of
our targets relatively easily. I say “found”;
we went knowing that two were missing. We’d messaged with the chap who’d hidden
them and arranged to replace the missing ones. One wasn’t actually missing.
I dozed most of the way home; once home both dogs had a
bath. What with fox poo and river mud both were rather grubby. We had a rather
good bit of dinner, and then with "er indoors TM"
off out to the Saturday film night I settled in front of the telly to watch the
2005 film of “The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy”. I turned it off after ten minutes.
I might watch more of “The
Expanse” in a bit. Or I might just sit here and doze…
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