"er indoors TM" spent an
inordinate amount of time fighting with one of the dogs last night whilst I was
trying to sleep. I wish she wouldn’t.
As I scoffed my toast I peered intently
at my lap-top. Facebook had told me it had a dozen notifications for my urgent attention.
I had a look at them – there wasn’t anything of note at all. The works Facebook
page had asked people to post photos of their pets… I couldn’t be bothered. I
did see (from the “memories” bit) that usually this weekend is
Canterbury Beer Festival. That was always rather good fun back in the day. I
wonder when the beer festivals will start again? But apart from that, there was
very little on the Internet apart from even more adverts. People are posting unwanted
tat for sale in pretty much every Facebook group these days. Years ago you’d
give your unwanted rubbish to the scouts who would have a jumble sale and give
the left overs to the rag-and-bone man. Nowadays you try to sell your cast-offs
yourself and grumble because no one wants second-hand anymore.
We got ourselves and our luggage and the
dogs into the car and set off up the motorway. As we do, we listened to Steve
on Radio Ashford, but the signal failed far earlier than usual today. We were
barely on the motorway when it got too fizzy to hear. So I contented myself by
playing Munzee instead.
It wasn’t long before we were in
Crockenhill where we met Karl, Tracey and Charlotte, and we set off in the
vague direction of Chelsfield; our route being set out for us by two series of
geocaches.
As we walked we crossed woodlands and
footpaths and lanes. The views of the London skyline were rather impressive. It
was a hot day (hotter than forecast) but the dogs had their cooling
collars and plenty to drink. We had a good walk, but more shade would have been
nice. We met friendly horses, and I managed to get a geocache from twenty feet
up a tree.
We walked past a couple of pubs but kept
going and didn’t stop. Instead we had a rather good picnic with a couple of
bottles of ale (and cider) and watched the dogs running riot with a
branch. The dogs were rather well behaved today; the only episode was when they
chased another dog that came too close at picnic time.
The day was only marred by Charlotte
scratching her leg rather badly (there was blood – it *did* hurt!).
As I do I took a few photos
today.
I amazed myself by staying awake on the
way home.
This evening we tuned in to the weekly
Zoom quiz… it was rather good. Based on the TV show “Only Connect” I rather impressed
myself by coming joint fifth out of ten.
"er indoors TM" then went to get
KFC for tea…
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