A night shift and a bottle of red wine meant I slept like a
log last night. I was licked awake at half past seven by three rather excited
dogs, the smallest of which seemed to have got over whatever it was that had
upset her yesterday.
I made toast (with jam) and had a look at the
Internet. It was still there. I looked at a few holiday photos… here’s a
thought. If you home-school your kids you can get to go on holiday when it is a
lot cheaper when everyone else is at school. I sent out a birthday wish to
someone who was one of my trainees thirty years ago. She was fifty today. Fifty
- where do the years go?
And I looked at the geo-map. Yesterday I mentioned that the
geo-feds had archived one of my caches without my having received any
notification that there was a problem with it. I saw on the map that another of
my caches in that series had been disabled by officialdom because of perceived
problems with it that they hadn’t told me about. I can’t be poring over the
geo-map every day looking to see if there’s issues with what I’ve hidden. I
archived all my ones along the Greensand Way (as that seemed to be where the
problem was).
I also heard that last night’s launch of the South Ashford
Community Forum wasn’t the success that it might have been. There were four
local councilors (who really had to be there), two members of the “Friends
of Victoria Park”, four members of the public (at whom the meeting was
aimed), the chairman of the South Ashford Community Forum, and the
secretary of the church which was hosting the meeting. As I suspected, apathy
was the winner here.
And with not a lot else happening in cyberspace I turned
off the lap-top and cracked on with the day.
Yesterday I did loads of washing which just didn’t dry, so
I hung it on the line again. That took ages. And with it done I took the dogs
for a walk. We went up to Kings Wood where we walked for three and a half
miles. We arrived to see a Dalmatian running round the car park; he followed us
(at a distance) into the woods but wandered off after a while. I hope
he’s OK – he was a hundred yards behind us for a while, then suddenly just
disappeared.
As we went we did whistle practice which worked with
varying degrees of success. Treacle rarely left my side, by when she did the
whistle brought her back in near panic. Bailey would come at top speed, but
being only little and being keen to wander, coming back took a while for her
even if she did respond immediately. And Morgan would come in his own good time
when he was ready. But whistle training did work (even if it took a while).
With walk walked we came home where I put a load of washing
into scrub, got the washing in off the line, and started an epic session of
ironing. As I ironed I watched the last episodes of “Shameless”; I
started watching the series on May 5th; it has only taken just under
six months to watch. And with the last of “Shameless” watched and pants
still to sort, I put on a Netflix film.
“Paradise” is a sci-fi (ish)
film, the premise of which is that you can sell years of your life for
financial gain or to pay off debts. However (like “Shameless”) the
writers would have benefitted from the teensiest bit of research. *If*it
were possible to extend human life, telomere transplantation would be a
sensible place to start… and for the film-makers this would involve something
which would look like a blood transfusion. Physically ripping years out of
someone’s back in much the same way that a butcher might remove the kidneys
from a carcass simply doesn’t work. And having the leading characters being in
total disagreement, but each alternately taking different sides of the argument
didn’t work. The film was originally made in German; perhaps it lost something
in translation? I think it fair to say “es war krappenschite”.
“er indoors TM” came home from a day
in the office and the dogs all got rather over-excited to see her. She boiled
up a rather good bit of scran which we devoured whilst watching more “Lego
Masters: USA”. There’s a new series of “Bake Off” going on to the
Sky-Q box, but we’ll get Lego watched before we start on that…
Today was a rostered day off… I think I needed it after
Tuesday’s night shift…
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