I woke rather early this morning, but rather that messing
about (like I usually do) I turned this to my advantage. I made some
toast and scoffed it whilst watching an episode of “Trailer Park Boys: The
Animated Series” (in which our heroes tried to get rich on Dragon’s Den
and came off worst with a glitterbomb).
And then rather than sparking up my lap-top I got on with
my plans for the day.
Having (some time ago) planned a new geo-series to
go out in Kings Wood, the whole thing went on hold with the lock-down. But now
that lock-down is easing I thought I might finish that little project before
embarking on the next two geo-schemes I have in mind.
I drove up to Kings Wood. As I drove the pundits on the
radio were talking about the “Black Lives Matter” protest marches that
took place over the weekend. The BBC said the marches passed off peacefully.
Other news sources mentioned twenty-seven police
officers being injured (and a police horse had a brick thrown at him). A
statue of Winston Churchill was defaced, and a statue of some chap in Bristol (who
made money from the slave trade) got hoiked in a river. If that is “peacefully”
…!
From a purely personal point of view, all these protests
seem to have done in my world is to stir up bad feeling where there never used
to be any.
I got to Kings Wood and got on with what I wanted to do.
With fifty new geocaches planned I had to actually hide the pots today. I did
have a series of geocaches up there before so I was able to re-use thirty of
the old pots.
I walked round, hid a film pot under a rock walked on a
bit, hid another… and so on. It was a shame the weather was against me; it was
rather overcast and drizzly. But I didn’t get *that* wet really, and
Kings Wood is a good place to walk. You can go for miles without seeing anyone.
In fact I didn’t see anyone until the six-miles point (and then I saw three
different people within a couple of hundred yards).
I started walking shortly after six o’clock; I got back to
my car just after eleven o’clock having walked nine and a half miles.
I came home and spent quite a while sorting the last bits
of the geo-admin for the new cache series, then emailed it all to the geo-feds
for their consideration, then we took the dogs out for a little walk. They have
got used to mid-day being walk time.
We came home via the corner shop for a cake, and I slept in
front of my lap-top for most of the afternoon.
"er indoors TM" boiled up a very
good bit of dinner which we scoffed whilst watching “Celebrity Gogglebox”
which featured one of the (quite frankly) most ridiculous haircuts I have
ever seen, and a couple of episodes of “What
We Do In The Shadows”; an odd show, but I quite like it…
I wonder what the geo-feds have made of what I did earlier?
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