I slept like a log last night. For all that I
grumble about them, "er indoors TM"’s blackout
curtains do help me sleep. So did having had an incredible week away. For all
that it was good to be home, and "er indoors TM"
did have to go in to work today, I might have stayed on for another day in the
New Forest (mightn’t I?)
But having spent a week generating laundry I made a
start dealing with it. A week’s worth of sweaty T-shirts went into the wash.
I then had a little look at the Internet as I
scoffed toast. There was a very nasty squabble kicking off on the national
geocaching Facebook page. A couple of months ago was the national meet-up in
Aberdeen. As an attraction for this meet-up the organisers had paid for someone
to bring a duplicate of a can of beans that had been in the first ever geocache
(some people are easily entertained!). They’d paid for this (and the chap who owns
the can of beans) to be flown all the way from America. The idea
was that you would look at this can of beans, and once you’d tiddled your pants
in uncontrollable excitement, you’d sign a piece of paper to say you’d seen it.
After the event was all over, the can-owner went back to America only to find
he’d left the bit of paper (with all the signatures) behind, so he emailed the event’s organiser to ask for his list of
signatures to be forwarded to him in the USA. However everyone else has emailed
in with all of their petty trivialities, and this email was but one in a pile
of over three thousand.
Because the list of signatures wasn’t returned
instantly, the chap in America then posted up all over the Internet claiming
that this insignificant scrap of paper had been stolen, and the entire issue
has been blown out of all proportion in Tupperware-hunting circles all over the
world.
Apparently this bloke had done this sort of thing
before.
You *really* couldn’t make this up, could you?
More and more I’m moving out of the social side of
geocaching (and any hobby come to
that). It doesn’t need to be one big argument, does it?
Once Fudge had been hand-fed his brekkie (piece by piece) I hung the washing
out, put more in to scrub, and we went for a little walk. Getting fed up with
walking in the same old places, today we took a little stroll along the river
up by Little Burton Farm. As we walked we saw quite a few people fishing in the
river. I say “fishing”. There are various ways to fish, each of which are as different to
each other as throwing darts is to throwing javelins. It was crystal clear that
the three people we saw today hadn’t the faintest idea of what they were doing.
As we walked we met other dog walkers, and played
nicely. That was something of a result.
We came home. I hung out the second load of washing
and set the third lot to scrub, then mowed the lawn. It took some mowing. I
then chopped back the roses and clematis from “not-so-nice-next-door”, hung out the third load of washing and put the fourth load in.
Over a spot of lunch I watched the last episode of
“Poldark”. The series seemed
to have been left open. Will they make more? I hope so.
I then set the washing machine loose on my pants
whilst I ironed shirts.
With shirts ironed I had a look at the household
accounts as I do every month. They aren’t bad; they could be a lot better. But
they aren’t bad really. I just want to have a *lot* more money. I don’t need it; I just want it.
Mind you, I had a minor result with the car’s
insurance. The insurance company had sent in the quote for next year’s policy.
Ninety quid more than I am paying at the moment. So I phoned them and asked if
I *really* had to go through
the farce of phoning around for other quotes. They laughed and knocked thirty
quid off of the price that I was already paying. I was rather pleased about
that.
"er
indoors TM"
came home, and we had a rather good bit of steak and chips for dinner. As we
scoffed we watched the three episodes of “Dad’s Army” that have
been re-made. I must admit that my hopes weren’t high about this re-make,
but it wasn’t too bad at all. Far better than that frankly awful film that was
made a few years ago.
Today
was really dull compared with the last week…
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