I slept like at night for nearly ten hours. I
wonder if the blue-stained duvet covers had anything to do with it? I woke to
the sound of Treacle sucking the duvet. She does that. I hope the blue stain
doesn’t do her any harm.
I made toast and had my
usual look at the Internet. It was still there. There was some NHS-bashing
going on in one of the Hastings Facebook groups I follow. Everyone is so quick
to find fault with the NHS. It ain’t perfect but the public attitude to the NHS
winds me up. One minute the masses are standing on the doorstep clapping like
demented sealions, the next minute saying what a load of crap it is. I
delivered my standard rant and checked my emails.
A ”tag” had been
hidden in Benenden… and found eight minutes before I saw the email. A “tag”
is part of the Snag The Tag game… Someone buys a tag, hides it and
publishes the location on the website. People then charge
out to get it and the first one to find it keeps it. And then that’s it. Game
over until the next “tag” goes out. I’ve been told many times that I
don’t need to hide a tag myself; just going out and finding them is perfectly
acceptable. But I would feel the need to contribute to the game, and bearing in
mind these tags were close on twenty quid each the last time I looked, I think
I shall just carry on watching.
“er indoors TM” sorted bacon rolls,
then I programmed “Hannah” for the day and we set off to Edenbridge.
Pausing only briefly for a letterbox hybrid just off the M26 we followed “er
indoors TM”’s car’s sat nav to some obscure country land near
Chiddngstone where it decided to lead us in circles. At this point we used my
phone to take us on to Edenbridge.
We parked up and had a little walk up and down the village
looking for specific geocaches for a little challenge we set ourselves today.
Geocaches come in various types and we’d thought we might see how many
different types we might find today. Having got a letterbox hybrid on the way
we found an Earthcache, Adventure Lab and a puzzle at the nearby church. We
then took a little walk down the road where (once we escaped from the normal
people) we found a traditional and a multi, then went on to the pub where
the monthly geo-meet was taking place. Back in the day there would be thirty or
forty people at the monthly meet-ups. But since COVID the meet-ups are a shadow
of what they once were. But today was like it used to be with dozens of people
along. It was good to catch up with old friends and meet new friends.
I took a few photos – but only
a few today.
As the afternoon drew to an end our phones all beeped with
the same message – a new virtual geocache not two hundred yards away. We all
hurried off together and all claimed joint First to Find. That, together with
the meet put our icon type count to eight. It is rare that we get over three on
one of our outings.
We used a proper Google sat-nav to get home. Once home “er indoors TM” sorted a
rather good bit of dinner, and I then slept for much of the rest of the evening.
Three pints of porter will do that these days…
Today was rather good… must do it again.
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