I woke this morning and immediately peered out of the
window to see the universe was still where I’d left it last night. I’m not
quite sure what I was expecting after Brexit actually happened last night; I
didn’t *really* think that a disgruntled European Union would launch a pre-emptive
nuclear strike… but part of me did wonder.
I cleared up a little of the carnage from last night, then
programmed “Hannah” for today as I scoffed my toast, and I then sent out
a birthday message before having a look at the Munzee app. Following our rather
good progress last month, both "er indoors TM" and
I have been promoted into “The Cup of Cocoa Clan” for February. In many
ways this is one of those “Dad!! – How old are you?” moments, but we
both see this as something of a result.
We got ourselves and the hounds organised and drove down to
High Halden where Karl, Tracey and Charlotte arrived less than a minute before
we did. We got our wellies on and set off on a rather good (if rather muddy)
five-mile wander round the local paths and lanes.
We’ve walked the paths and lanes round High Halden before;
they are rather pretty at any time of year, but I’ve never known them to be
quite this muddy. And muddy did make for slippery; getting over some of the
stiles did take some doing. As we walked we found a mini-stonehenge-rock-thingy
we’ve never found before. We found ourselves on the wrong side of a hedge and
on an airfield. We found the dogs in fields they shouldn’t have been in (and
retrieving them took some doing).
Geocache-wise it was an excellent walk; hides were findable
with some effort, with one or two trickier ones thrown in. The given
co-ordinates were all pretty good. There was only one that eluded us.
After three hours we were back at the cars. I scraped as
much mud off of the dogs as I could; I think that today was probably the
grubbiest the dogs have ever got. And having then de-mudded ourselves we crossed
the road to the Chequers where we had a very good spot of lunch washed down by
three rather good pints of ale.
I took quite a few
photos
whilst we were out
We
came home; as I bathed the dogs so "er indoors TM"
packed an overnight bag, and then set off to see "Daddy’s Little Angel TM"
and "Stormageddon - Bringer of Destruction TM". I
put a load of washing into the washing machine and watched a film on Netflix. “Funny Cow” followed the
life of a northern woman who wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was quite
good. I then watched a few more episodes of “Shitt’s Creek” whilst the
dogs snored.
Today
has really worn them out.
It’s
worn me out as well…
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