Ignoring a dog scrap and a trip to the loo in the
small hours, I slept for eleven hours last night. It’s amazing what a night
shift and an afternoon in the sun on the beer can do.
Over brekkie I pondered what we might do today. It
is very unusual that I don’t have plans for a weekend day. We had thought about
joining friends for a kayaking mission down the Medway, but that would have
meant leaving the dogs alone for too long. "er indoors TM" had been talking
about hiding a series of geocaches that she’d been working on, but that would
have needed an early start. Simularly for all that I would have liked to have
had a day trip to Brighton kite festival, by the time we’d fiddled about we wouldn’t
have got there until the afternoon.
I then
spent a few minutes fighting with Amazon dot co dot uk. On Friday I’d had
issues with my sat-nav. I finally got the thing to work. Yesterday it worked
perfectly when I used "er indoors TM"’s cable. So I
thought I might get a new cable for it. Usually ordering things on Amazon is
painless. This morning I struggled. Eventually it turned out that the cable I
wanted was only available as an “add on” item. You had to buy it
together with something else. So I ordered a different cable and found that I
couldn’t have it delivered to the Amazon locker at work; that locker was full.
Hopefully
the new cable should arrive at home in a day or so. If it works, all is fine.
If it don’t I’ve only wasted three quid.
I went out into the garden and had a little potter.
I ran out the hose to top up the pond, and I pulled out some of the pond weed.
I then gathered up the dog turds and mowed the lawn, and trimmed back the
overgrowth from not-so-nice-next-door before watering the pots.
After a couple of hours work it looked just the
same as it did last week. Gardening is an ultimately futile exercise.
Interestingly I found what looks like hedgehog turds
in the garden. Hedgehogs? I would have thought that they wouldn’t have come
anywhere near what with the dogs.
I also spent a few minutes looking at my
monkey-puzzle tree. It’s getting bigger and bigger. I wonder if it needs a
bigger pot? I did notice that it had quite a few spider webs over it. The
internet says that this is from spider-mites. The best way to get rid of spider
mites is to zap them off with a high-pressure hose. It was a shame that I
didn’t read this until *after* I’d put the hose pipe away. I spent a few minutes looking up
monkey-puzzle trees on the Internet; no two people agree on anything about
them. I think I shall just carry on treating the thing as I have done for the
last four years. Since we got the tree (August Bank Holiday
2015) I’ve basically left the tree to its own devices
and it seems to be doing well.
Its even got its own Facebook page.
We had some beans on toast for lunch, then took the
dogs for a walk. A little while ago we’d got all the clues for a geo-puzzle in
the Hythe area and thought we’d go find the final cache today. We couldn’t
remember whether we’d got the clues earlier this year, or was it last year?
According to my diary we found all the required information on 6 November 2016
(!)
We had a rather good little walk along the military
canal, but for me it was rather spoiled by the miniature railway. Have you ever
been on the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway? It stinks. It has a foul
burned-oil smell that always makes me feel rather nauseous. And (it has to be said) it was a shame that
Pogo couldn’t have been better behaved. Such a shame that he feels the need to
shout at other dogs. Not all of them; just a random selection.
We found the cache that we were hunting for. Pogo
and Treacle both jumped into the canal (I wish
they wouldn’t), and we failed to find the first part of another
geo-puzzle. Bearing in mind that people have been posting on-line that they
thought that this first part of the puzzle was missing for over two years, our
hopes weren’t high. With no finds in two years the thing must have been
missing, and the person who’d hidden it must have long since given up with the
hobby. We had a good search and could find nothing so I posted that it needed
to be archived. Within five minutes the chap who’d hidden it posted that he’d
archived it. What was that all about? Clearly he’d been getting messages about
that cache. So why hadn’t he done anything about it over the previous two
years?
We drove home via Dymchurch and via another
geocache in Washford Farm. This is one I can’t find at all. I’ve been out at
least once every two weeks for the last four months and had no joy. Both of us
drew a blank today.
Once home I spent an hour or so writing up CPD. A dull job, but one which needs doing (from time
to time). I then slobbed
in front of the telly until "er indoors TM" dished up a
rather good bit of dinner which we devoured whilst watching “Dragon’s Den”.
I quite like that show – everyone has a get-rich-quick scheme that simply won’t
work…
We did quite a lot today on a day in which we had
nothing planned…
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