I slept through till nine o’clock this morning,
which was something of a result. Leaving “er indoors TM” and
the dogs in the pit I got up, made brekkie and had a look at the Internet.
Quite a few people were posting ”packed up for Christmas” stuff. Some
people really do have ages off work this time of year. There’s no denying that
I get time off work, but it really is a day here and a day there.
Quite a few other
people (on one of the local Facebook pages) were posting rants about
waiting times in the local A&E department, and were being rather
judgemental about who should and who shouldn’t go to an A&E department. I
can remember hobbling to the A&E department four years ago when I could barely
walk, and a whole load of people gave me serious abuse for wasting NHS time.
I got out a tape measure and measured up the
space where the fish tank sits. That fish tank I’d seen yesterday wasn’t much
wider than the current tank, and was actually shorter. I did right by not
buying that tank yesterday but coming home to measure up first.
I checked the weather forecast, and seeing that the drizzle would
soon be stopping we got the leads onto the dogs, and we all set off. “er indoors TM” had booked
today off work, and we took the dogs to Kings Wood. One of my geocaches had
been reported as being missing.
It was.
It was only a shame that it was the furthest cache from the
car park. But replacing it made for a good dog walk; after all that’s why I’ve
put all these geocaches in Kings Wood; they make for a good dog walk. Even if
today’s walk was a mile and a half longer than our average walk round Kings
Wood.
As we walked so the drizzle came and went for the whole
time we were there. I need to delete the BBC weather app from my phone and get
one which is better. Are there any?
We came home via Perry Court Farm where we got loads of
Christmas food shopping. Perhaps a tad more expensive than Tesco, but their
stuff is of rather good quality and we were driving past Perry Court anyway.
We also got salted caramel cake. Once home (and with
dogs bathed) we had some with a cuppa. Rather good.
As I told the world about today’s
Advent Calendar Story, despite having stocked up at Perry Court earlier, “er
indoors TM” went off to Aldi to get some more bits and bobs. She
said it was busy but I’ve since heard that whilst she was in Aldi, cars had
been queuing to get into Sainsburys.
With the shops closed for one day (Christmas Day),
everyone is preparing for Armageddon.
Whilst she shopped I slobbed on the sofa under sleeping
dogs watching “Star Trek” until “er indoors TM” returned
and boiled up a very good bit of curry.
And in closing, today is the shortest day of the year. For
those who want to get technical, the actual solstice is at half past three
tomorrow morning, but for all that sunrise is at the same time today and
tomorrow, sunset is a minute later tomorrow. Just one minute, but it’s one
minute in the right direction.
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