I
felt a bit better this morning when I got up. With puppies sorted I watched
more of "Stranger Things"
which (being set in the early eighties) is a nostalgia trip if nothing
else.
I
then sparked up the lap-top and had a
little look at the Munzee Clan War. There has been something of a major result
or major disaster in the Munzee world, depending on your personal
perspective. Every month Munzers band
together in groups of up to ten in order to achieve certain individual and
group tasks. And (up till now) every month it is the same... a small
minority puts in all the effort and two or three do the group tasks that up to
ten should be doing. And at the end of the month those who've done the bare
minimum join in at the last minute and reap the benefits of the minority's
efforts. But yesterday Munzee HQ announced that from here on in everyone's got
to put in the effort; if you aren't in by the twelfth of each month then you
can't join at all. Being the clan leader, last night I invited all the other
Munzers who were rota-ed for the clan, and to my cynical surprise everyone’s
making an effort.
However
this month I’m in a higher-achieving clan. I wonder what will happen at the
lower levels. Will this encourage everyone to make more effort, or will this
discourage some and make them throw in the towel? We shall see...
I
also saw a friend from fifty years ago was on holiday in Kefalos. That's a
place in Kos - I've been there; there was a castle and a geocache, and one of
our buggies broke down there. However he shouldn't have been on holiday in
Kefalos. He should have been on holiday in Kefalonia; a five hundred miles
flight or a thousand miles mile drive (taking nearly a whole day) away.
Woops.
I
set off on a cold morning to find my car. I found it quicker than I did
yesterday. As I drove the pundits on the radio were talking about the ongoing
conflict in Ukraine. Yesterday the Russians gave the Ukrainians a severe
arse-kicking with cruise missile attacks on several of their cities. Most of
the rest of the world were rather taken aback at this. I'm not defending the
Russians in any way, but isn't this what war is all about? It's not some
squabble confined to a certain area, is it? It's one big all-out fight. Isn't
it?
I
suppose the obvious next step is the Western world (who have been funding
the Ukrainian war effort all along) will now supply the Ukrainians with
cruise missiles of their own... and then the shit really will hit the fan.
Work
was work, and being on the early shift I came home early. I got the dogs into
the boot of the car and we went to Orlestone. I would have preferred Kings
Wood, but by the time I get home from work getting to Kings Wood takes over
twice the time that getting to Orlestone takes.
Mind
you we had a good walk… mostly. Morgan didn’t run off *too* much, and
apart from him and his sister getting too involved with a squadron of
greyhounds, the walk passed off pretty much without incident. I did chuckle
when we got back to the car though, As we got back to the car so another chap
was setting off on his dog walk. Two minutes later his dog came flying back to
the car park hotly pursued by the ill-behaved dog of a rather posh lady.
There
is a certain satisfaction when it is someone else’s dog that is playing up.
“er
indoors TM” boiled up a very good bit of scran (she does that!)
which we scoffed whilst watching another episode of “Lego Masters: Australia”
in which the contestants made some rather spectacular models which then got
destroyed with a bowling ball. The explosions looked rather spectacular in slow
motion… I wonder if I might do something along those lines with “Stormageddon
– Bringer of Destruction TM”…
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