What with being rather knackered and clocks going forward,
I slept through till ten o’clock this morning. When I got up “er indoors TM”
told me that she hadn’t been able to get the dogs to go into the garden this
morning. Seeing the rain I felt sorry for them, but rather a wet dog than a wet
floor. However they do seem more inclined to go out in the rain when someone
goes with them. So I went with them. We didn’t have to be out there long, but
whilst we were there I had a dung harvest. Better to get that stuff gathered up
before it gets torrentially rained upon.
There are those among my loyal readers who might shout “too
much detail”; but I would say that this is one of the more important
details if anyone is considering taking on a dog. Or three.
I didn’t really fancy a Slimfast shake this morning. I went
Old Skool and had toast instead which I scoffed whilst having my
morning’s rummage round the Internet. There was quite a squabble happening on
one of the Lego-related Facebook pages. Someone was trying to get a bargain on
second-hand Lego and was finding the stuff was nowhere near as cheap as he
might have hoped. Sadly (for those who want a bargain) as an investment
Lego is better than gold, and so it
ain’t going to be cheap.
I also saw a new geocache had gone live locally. A
challenge cache. In order to qualify for the challenge you have to have found (at
least) one geocache which had been hidden in each month since January 2002.
I was surprised to see that I didn’t qualify for this Jasmer challenge (as
it is called) as my Jasmer grid was missing finds on geocaches hidden in
December 2021, November 2022 and January 2023. I thought I’d got this challenge
done. Some years ago (1 August 2016) Fudge and I went on a major road trip to the New
Forest and back finding seven really old geocaches over the course of one day
to complete the Jasmer challenge (as far as it can be completed within a few
hundred miles of home on mainland UK). Obviously I’ve let this slip.
There’s a little project for the next few weeks.
I looked out of the window at the rain which was not quite
as bad as it had been earlier. The weather yesterday had been glorious as I’d
been at work. Today it was on the damp side.
But rain is for wimps. I put shirts into the washing
machine, and leaving “er indoors TM” to her candlemonger
mates I took the dogs out. For a change we went to Great Chart. One of our
standard shorter winter walks is from the cricket green up to the river and
back, and that is what we did today. As always when we got to the river Treacle
got incredibly over-excited and squeaked like a thing possessed. That is her
way of asking for stones to be thrown into the river. She then swims out to the
splash and swims back again for more stones to be thrown. As she swam to and
fro, the puppies looked on in frank amazement.
Despite this being one of our standard winter walks, the
dogs came home filthy. We had a good scrub, and as they snored I ironed shirts.
What with the clocks having gone forward and having had a
lie-in, time was running away from me,and I was getting hungry. I had this plan
to fry up yesterday’s left-over kebab for lunch. Once I figured out how to work
the hob (it took some working out!) I had a good bit of scoff which I
devoured whilst watching an episode of “Downton Abbey” in which everyone
now feels sorry for Thomas (who was very much the villain of the piece not
so long ago).
I then spent two more hours on my Wherigo project and got
the thing ready for a final test.
However I’d had enough by then and so put off the final
test, and looked at the monthly accounts instead. Not as good as I’d like them
to be (is it wrong to want to have far too much money?) but certainly
not as bad as they have been in the past.
“er indoors TM” came home. As she set
about boiling up dinner so I ran my Wherigo project through its final test… I
say “final test”; it worked without crashing but I found several
problems and mistakes in it. So as “er indoors TM” boiled
dinner I put right that which I’d stuffed up.
Dinner was rather good. We washed it down with a bottle of
Shiraz whilst watching more “Lego Masters: Australia”.
Bearing in mind the lie-in I had, and the fact I’ve not really
done anything today, I’m worn out.
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