I slept reasonably well, which was something of a result,
But I was still wide awake far too early. And these days it is now dark at
"far too early o'clock". I got up, pootled about, made toast
and watched an episode of "Shameless". I'm now into the
eleventh season and am realistically only watching it because I've got so far
it would be a shame to stop now. Sadly all the interesting characters have left
and the plot (such as it is) is seriously beginning to struggle.
As I watched I sorted my undercrackers. They are getting a
tad threadbare; maybe it is time to get some new ones before word gets out that
I need new ones for Christmas.
I had a very quick look at the Internet; some born-again
Christian was spamming the Atheist memes page that I follow. This chap is a
strange fellow. Hailing from the USA he is a great advocate of the American
Dream and of making as much money as he possibly can at the expense of anyone
and everyone else. However he sees no contradiction between his political and
religious views. I suppose this is what "faith" is all about;
desperately hoping that shit is sugar and ignoring all evidence to the
contrary. Certainly works for this chap.
I had a quick Munzee session then set off to work. As I
drove the pundits on the radio were talking about the collapse of the high street giant Wilko.
There was an interview with some woman who was something big in the union to
which most Wilko workers belonged. She was lambasting Wilko's management for
not having a business plan and not embracing change and generally criticising
them for very specific failures. Amazingly pretty much everything she said that
Wilko's management should be doing was *exactly* what the railway unions
say their management should *not* be doing and are fighting them about.
Funny old world.
This was followed by an interview with some business guru
who (quite frankly) just spouted meaningless catchphrases saying that
Wilko needed a forward-going vision which would complement its portfolio.
Possibly by telling the portfolio it had a smashing blouse? Some of these
people wheeled onto the radio really do just spout utter tripe. Mind you I
expect they get paid far more than I do...perhaps that is somewhere else that
I've been going wrong all these years?
I did my bit at work and drove home. I hadn’t intended
going for a dog walk after work as the weather forecast had thunderstorms from
two o’clock onwards. But as usual reality bore no relation to the weather
forecast. I took the dogs to Orlestone, and just at the furthest point from the
car the puppies zoomed into the trees. Having been doing that all walk long I
thought nothing of it, as they usually re-appear a few seconds later. This time
it was a little longer before they re-appeared.
Three quarters of an hour.
They must have seen a rabbit or a squirrel or something and
given chase and got lost. I walked around but couldn’t hear them at all.
Eventually a passing dog walker said she’d heard something crashing about in
the woods a few hundred yards away and I went in the general direction she
said, blowing the whistle periodically.
Eventually I saw Morgan on the edge of the trees. He looked
at me with a very uncertain expression, so I called to him and he sprinted up
to me. He was whimpering and crying; obviously frightened by his experience.
Bailey appeared a minute later (bold as brass) as though nothing had
happened.
As we walked back to the car we met “er indoors TM”
walking in to the woods. I’d called her when I’d got to the “dogs missing
for half an hour” stage.
Once home we had a bit of scoff, then whilst “er indoors
TM” went to Zoom at her mates I had a look on the Internet at
collar-mounted dog tracking devices. It soon became apparent that they are all
crap. They cost a small fortune, they need a monthly subscription fee, and the
tracking device talks to your phone’s app via the Internet… Which is all very
well all the time you are connected to the Internet. There’s pretty much no
signal at all in most of Orlestone Woods or Kings Wood.
There are cheaper ones which work via Bluetooth, but with a
(in the woods) range of up to ten metres I’ll see and hear the dog
before the tracker does.
I shall keep my eyes open, but GPS dog trackers seem to be
a lot of money straight down the toilet…
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