The data cable for my sat-nav “Hannah” hasn’t been right for some time.
I think it’s got a loose connection inside. Over brekkie I had a look-see at
the Internet to see if I might get myself a new one. I *really* wanted to get it via Amazon so I could have it delivered to
the Amazon locker at work. Amazon were selling the cables for thirty-six quid.
I thought that was a tad expensive, so I had a look on eBay. The same thing –
three quid with free postage. Nice one, eBay.
There wasn’t much kicking off on
Facebook, so I turned off the lap-top and started getting myself organised.
It wasn’t long before we were driving
off. Having just worked for the last seven days it was good to have a day off.
We firstly went to the co-op where their cash dispenser was again out of
receipts. I get money from there at least once a week and it *never* has receipts.
We drove up to Tenyham church where we
met Karl, Tracey and Charlotte. After a little wheri-diversion we then walked
the local paths following a series of geocaches. Regular readers of this drivel
may recall I had fun and games recently straining my brain solving a hundred
puzzle caches loosely based on unicorns. Today we went out to actually find
some of the things. Finding a hundred geocaches in a day is ambitious (I’ve done it six times) but we had
originally considered it. However having plotted the things on a map it didn’t
look as though they lent themselves to one epic route march. So we thought we
might do the series in smaller sections.
Today was the northern stretches. We’ve
walked the paths and lanes round Conyer before. The paths are well-marked, the
lanes aren’t busy. Ideal for walking the dogs.
As we walked we kept getting whiffs of
dog farts. Pogo git the blame, but it could have been any of them. When I take
my hounds out for walks with friends that are dog-less I am very keen that they
get the “full dog experience”, and
when you experience a dog fart you soon know all about it. Perhaps if Pogo and
Treacle hadn’t eaten dead mice yesterday?...
We also saw what I can only describe as
“pylon spotters”; some of the normal
people were standing on the roadside intently staring at a pylon through pairs
of binoculars. I suppose it is an extension of bird-watching or train-spotting,
but with the advantage that a pylon isn’t going to go anywhere very fast. They
seemed happy enough. It was pointed out that having spent the day looking for
film pots under rocks hardly gave me any hobby-related moral high ground, but I
think geocaching would trump pylon-spotting every time.
At one point we left the unicorn trail
to hunt out four other caches across the marshes. We had a rather good lunch
looking across the river to the Isle of Sheppey. It was at this point that we
decided not to go for a particular cache. Reading that it involved a tree climb
had made us dubious about attempting it, but it was the drunk tramp who was
nearby that put us off. It is difficult to be stealthy with three dogs when
climbing a tree, and having a drunk tramp offering to share its White
Lightening wasn’t really something we would have relished today.
Today’s walk was unusual in that our
customary pub stop was half-way round the walk rather than at the end. We sat
in the beer garden. Mid-February and we were sitting outside!
Geocache-wise we had a walk of two
halves. The unicorn caches were close together along well-marked paths. Across
the marshes the hides were rather spaced out and seemed to involve a bit of
bushwhacking.
We were rather concerned to see that
many of the unicorn caches were looking rather poorly. Many had leaked, and the
paper logs weren’t what they might be.
Mind you I was pleased how “Hannah” held up. Yesterday I’d
programmed my sat-nav directly through GSAK (as one does) and it had (mostly)
worked.
I took a
lot of photos today. Once home I put them on the Internet. "er
indoors TM" did some painting and I did some Lego. Over
dinner we watched the latest episode of “The
Orville”. For a show that started off frankly terribly, “The Orville” is getting better and
better. Tonight’s episode was in many ways a remake of the Star
Trek episode “In Theory”, but was
done far better.
I hope the
dogs settle tonight – I’m a bit tired after today…
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