I hurt when I woke up. More and more I seem to
be constantly aching. Perhaps I should have done all the semi-retirement time
off forty years ago when moving about didn’t hurt so much?
I made toast and
scoffed it as I peered into a dull internet. Today’s squabble was between
Doctor Who fans. People who discovered the show recently feel the old episodes
dragged on and on interminably. People who’ve been watching the show for years
think the new episodes are over too quickly. Both sides have a point.
And now that Doctor Who
has been bought by the Disney corporation there was talk of the rumours that
Warner Bros are planning the buy the Star Trek franchise from Paramount. Are
they? It is easy to forget that what I see as entertainment is primarily a money-making
business.
I got the leads onto
the dogs and we tried to set off… Sadly the road was gridlocked because of
four-way traffic lights at the Chinese take-away. And as is always the way, no
one was actually doing any road work.
We eventually got
going. As we drove the pundits on the radio were talking about how there are
calls in Russia for them to attack the western countries that are supplying the
Ukrainians with weapons. I can see their point. If one country bombs another,
that’s an act of war. But what if one country gives another country a bomb with
the sole intention that this other country is going to use it?
We got to the woods and
had a rather good walk into a part of the woods in which we’ve not been for
some time. We won’t be going back to that art in a hurry… it was on the muddy
side. Whilst we were there we barked at a horse (who was minding his own
business in a field) and we hid another geocache. To get the final
location you have to do a jigsaw puzzle. You can do the jigsaw puzzle by clicking
here if you fancy a go.
We came home, had a
bath, dog brekkie, a cuppa and a Belgian bun and I unwrapped my Amazon
delivery. I’ve got fed up with aching all the time, so I’ve got some thirty
days worth of Seven Seas joint care supplex and turmeric with glucosamine, omega-3
vitamins C and D and manganese. Go me(!) I doubt it will do anything,
but (if nothing else) in a month’s time I can complain on here about
what a waste of money it was.
I then I loaded the car
with rubbish and set off again. Through the traffic lights to B&Q where I
met someone with whom I used to work. We chatted for ages, then I got two tubs
of fence paint, then drove through the traffic lights and set off to the tip.
Usually if you want to meet odd people doing strange things, the tip is the
place to go, but today things were thankfully rather dull. I drove in, dinged
out my rubbish and went. If only all tip visits went that easily.
Pausing only briefly in
the town centre for Munzical purposes I drove over to the hospital for my
pre-operative assessment. My weight was a tad high, but you can tell that by
looking at me. My blood pressure was148/88 which I was told wasn’t anything to
worry about but Google says that’s a tad high too. Bearing in mind how much I
walk with the dogs I would have thought it would have been lower.
Perhaps I need to lose
weight…
I came home through the
rain via Pets at Home where I collected the dogs’ flea treatments and got them
a chew treat each. And once home I got the message that the geocache we’d
hidden earlier had received the thumbs-up from the geo-feds.
As the dogs chomped on
their treats I made myself a cuppa and guzzled it with a chocolate hot cross
bun (rather odd!) and sulked. I had plans for the afternoon. I wanted to
change the ultraviolet bulb in the pond’s filter and start painting the shed,
planter, pond leccie cupboard and fences, but it was hossing down.
So I settled in front
of the telly with a sleeping Morgan and watched more episodes of “Four In A
Bed” in which the hatred between some of the contestants was tangible.
As I watched so my
phone beeped. That geocache we’d hidden earlier had been found for the first
time. Someone had seen the notification, solved the puzzle, driven nine miles
to the woods then stomped through a mile of mud to where we’d hidden the thing
all in under two and a half hours. The pull of being First to Find is strong…
“er indoors TM” is Zooming at her
mates. I’m going to have a look at the geo-map in Kings Wood. The puzzle series
of geocaches I put out a year ago has been found eighty times. It’s good for
this summer, but in the autumn I will probably need to re-vamp it. And that
will take some doing.
Meanwhile one of the dog’s anal glands needs doing; there’s
a distinctive smell about the place. I wonder which dog it is… I’m not keen on
sniffing too closely.
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