I didn’t feel particularly good when I woke this morning. A minor headache and a general feeling of “bleaugh”. Whilst I don’t think for one moment I’ve got COVID, there are (literally) millions of other viruses kicking about.
I made toast and had a little look at the Internet. I had an email – I got full marks on another essay I’d written for Coursera. Whilst I was pleased, the trouble with Coursera essays is that because the thing is a MOOC, it isn’t practical to have tutors (or anyone who actually knows what they are doing) marking the essays. Instead each student gets to mark three essays, and you get an average grade. This is all very well all the time your paper is marked by someone who isn’t an absolute idiot. I marked one such paper last night; in an essay about the potential habitability of a theoretical exoplanet some half-wit wrote an incoherent rambling diatribe about the importance of microscopes in science, and ended with a plea for a high mark because he was only ten years old and his parents had told him he was wasting his time doing the course.
Having loaded up the car with rubbish yesterday afternoon I took it to the tip. The tip was all but deserted, but even so the jobsworth checking my booking made a point of telling me I was ten minutes early. I really don’t know why the tip operates such a silly system by which you have to book your appointment. You can only unload one car’s worth at a time which is a pain. I rather wanted to go back home and got more rubbish.
I came home anyway and loaded up the car with dogs and we went to Great Chart. Regular readers of this drivel may recall that on Friday I had a look round Lenham to try and find points of interest for my planned Adventure lab series, and drew a blank. I found a few thingies that would go well in a geocaching Adventure lab today; alms houses, village signs…
And having sorted what I needed I then walked the dogs up to the river and back again. They were really well behaved; as we walked back I found myself chatting with another dog walker about places to walk dogs locally. He recommended the beach at Jury’s Gap – that might be somewhere to go when it warms up a bit. It was good to walk with the other dog; both Pogo and Treacle got to socialise a bit, which is always a good thing.
With walk walked I then started the admin work for the Adventure Lab cache series. After three hours I’d created most of the descriptions I will need, and most of the pictures. Finding myself at a natural stopping point I stopped and phoned the pub we’d walked past this morning. The Swan and Dog say they are very happy for us to have a geo-meet there, so I did all the admin for a geo-meet, and the geo-feds published it all less than five minutes after I submitted it all. That was rather efficient.
I then sat in front of the telly and binge-watched the entire third season of Ricky Gervais’ “After Life” which was rather good, then played Lego until “er indoors TM” came home and boiled up a good bit of dinner which we scoffed (with a very good bottle of wine that Irene bought for us) whilst watching “The Great Pottery Throw Down”.
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