19 February 2020 (Wednesday) - Off To Molesworth


Another good night’s sleep. Over brekkie I had a look at the Internet. There were a lot of people talking on Facebook about the sad death of Caroline Flack. It would seem that everyone except me knew who she was. Yet again I was having to do some research to find out just who this person who's all over the news actually is, and why she's all over the news.
Did she do it? Did she not? I don't know and quite frankly I don't care.
With one of the Prime Minister's closest aides being sacked for his blatant racist views, much of the country flooded, the Prime Minister having backed down in the first round of trade talks with the EU, attempts to quarantine corona virus having failed and the entire world about to go down the toilet as the climate goes west, the nation's attention is focussed on someone who is famous only for being famous.
There was also a report from America where some bunch of Christians were trying to promote their God-bothering agenda by creating a poll on Twitter. “Do you believe America would be better off if more Christians served in elected office?” With one hundred thousand people having voted, the result was ninety-five percent against what they wanted to hear. This was seen as proof that Satan is meddling in day-to-day America, and more proof that there should be more Christians in elected office (!)
They let these people vote, you know…

Not wanting to have grubby dogs today we went round the park for our walk. Yesterday in Kings Wood we had a really good walk where the dogs could run free and we didn’t meet any idiots. We only had one “episode” today but it was a good one. Some twit saw us coming. Rather than taking any of the other paths in the park that he might have taken, he picked up his small dog, held it at arms’ length and started screaming. Of course Pogo saw this as some sort of game and ran around like a thing possessed, and of course Fudge and Treacle immediately joined in.
In between his screams this idiot shouted that his dog doesn’t like other dogs. When I suggested that he shouldn’t wave his dog around as though it was some sort of toy you really could see the cogs turning in the bloke’s head. It had never occurred to him that all he was doing was aggravating the situation. When it became apparent that he was holding a dog and wasn’t playing some sort of game, my three soon lost interest.

We came home. I spent a few minutes packing a suitcase, then went to Pets at Home for dog food, and to the bakery for human food. I then polished up my walking boots whilst watching another episode of “Titans” which has suddenly got to be worth watching again.
I listened to the latest single from Sparks – not their best but certainly not their worst.

"er indoors TM" came home at lunch time. We scoffed the Belgian buns I’d bought from the bakery down the road. You’d think that a local bakery would make Belgian buns that were better than those you might get from Tesco or the co-op, wouldn’t you?
We loaded up the "er indoors TM"-mobile and Munzee-d all the way to Cambridgeshire. I managed to Munzee so successfully that I got an e-badge for doing so. In fact I got over tent per cent of my total Munzee points in this session. Go me!!

We arrived in Molesworth and managed to walk the dogs until they calmed down. Karl and Tracey arrived with Jessica and Charlotte and the dogs became as excited as they had ever been.
We went into the Cross Keys, got our room keys, unpacked, and were soon scoffing a rather good bit of dinner. We had a rather good bit of pudding too, And after dinner we played skittles Northampton-style.

The weather forecast for tomorrow isn’t good…

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