I woke up feeling like
death warmed up. I rarely get hangovers but there is no denying that last
night’s second (or was it third?) bottle of red wine was something of an error
in judgement on my part.
I lay awake for a
while, and when the room slowed its spinning to a rate at which I felt I could
get up I staggered downstairs in the hope that some jam on toast might perk me
up.
It didn’t.
As I picked at my toast
I tried to focus my eyes at my lap-top. Yesterday I somehow found myself
embroiled in a petty squabble with the Sussex geocachers. On their Facebook
page everyone had been telling me I was the villain of the piece, privately
everyone was sending me messages saying I was the hero. These little spats get
so out of proportion. Fortunately someone had deleted the whole thing overnight
which was probably for the best.
I also had an email
offering me free beer. “Free beer”…
the small print said that that the offer was actually for ten quid off of the
first monthly subscription to some beer club; monthly cost thirty quid. What a
rip off!
After a couple of hours
of slobbing I got off my bum, had another cup of coffee, and we took the dogs
out.
We walked through South
Ashford and met up with "My
Boy TM" and Rolo and together we walked round Singleton
Lake. I say “round”; we got half way
round and found our way blocked by a swamp. We backtracked, and pausing only
briefly for "er indoors TM" to find her lost glove
and the dogs to shout at the ducks we walked on into the park, and home.
Once home the dogs had
their bath. They get *so* muddy, and
when we get home from our walks Treacle expects a bath; she jumps into the bath
and waits to be washed. "er indoors TM" boiled up some
cheese on toast for lunch, and I did a little geo-admin. Whilst we walked I’d
replaced a couple of missing geocaches of mine. Rather than telling the world
I’d done maintenance, I wiped them from the geo-map and created them afresh.
That way those who get their kicks from rummaging in the undergrowth by a bus
stop get something to do, and everyone is happy. Usually there is a delay of a
day or so between creating a new listing and the geo-feds activating it; today
the delay was eight minutes. I was impressed.
I then did something
I’ve been threatening to do for ages; I tidied up my fishing tackle bag. Every
time I go near a tackle shop I buy some odds and sods. I found a dozen packets
of hooks. I found half dozen empty packets of lead weights. I also made a
complete stuff-up of changing the line on one of my reels; I shall buy some
more line in the week.
Looking out of the
window I could see the snow was starting to fall again. So I slobbed on the
sofa for a couple of hours watching “Four in a Bed”.
I quite like the show; do people *really*
spend that much money on a Bed & Breakfast? After this was several episodes
of “Come Dine with Me”, and once "er indoors TM" had gone bowling
I watched the latest episodes of “Still
Game”, and then Jocelyn’s bosom geaved once more in “Jamestown”.
Today was rather dull…
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