As I scoffed toast I had my usual peer into the Internet.
There was an amazing display of unanimity on one of the Facebook groups I
follow. Someone posted that they’d met one of the main actors in the 80s TV
show “Auf Wiedersehn Pet” and found him to be a rather nasty opinionated
person with no time at all for the fans, and loads of other people were
positing their experiences with this actor. No one had a good word for the
bloke.
But there was a squabble on one of the dog-related Facebook
groups in which someone was trying to get people to sign an on-line petition
campaigning for the RSPCA to only advocate vegetarian animal food.
Have you ever seen a cat eating a salad?
With “er indoors TM” and the dogs fast
asleep I put in a load of laundry, set the dishwasher going, and got on with
gardening. First of all I cleaned out the small pond’s filter. I’m having to
clean that at least twice a week. It’s doing a good job of keeping the small
pond clear, but I need to replace it with one that needs a whole lot less
maintenance.
I harvested a bumper crop of dog dung, and took a bucket of
water to one dog’s outpourings.
And then I had a go at trimming back all the stuff pouring
over the fence from not-so-nice-next-door. That took some doing.
As
I trimmed so “My Boy TM” and Cheryl came with a Father’s Day
card. They stayed for a while and we put the world to rights, and when they
went on their way I got out the garden vacuum and hoovered up a load of dead
leaves.
Then
out came the Bionic Burner and I set about the weeds coming up through the
patio, and then had a quick Bionic Burn around the front garden too. I zapped
the front path of new-next-door too. Perhaps a tad too vigorously as one
of her weeds actually caught fire. I stamped it out before anyone noticed,
though.
“er indoors TM” sorted us a bowl of
soup, then went off to see her dad for Father’s Day. He’s got a cat, so turning
up with three dogs in tow wouldn’t have been a good idea. And as time goes on I
find myself less and less inclined to leave the dogs home alone. So as she went
out so I ran out the hose and topped up both ponds, and then spent a little
while watching our special fish. One of the fish has got scoliosis (a bent
spine) and isn’t as agile as the other fish. But he holds his own at the
feeding frenzy when we do “Feed The Fish”.
I
then sat on the sofa and fiddled about with my plans for my geocaches in Kings
Wood. At the moment I’ve got one huge walk round the woods and several much
smaller ones. The huge walk is too long, and the smaller walks are guided by
Wherigos which have a cult following. People either love them or hate them.
Everyone who loves them has now done them, and those who are now registering
finds on them are openly admitting to cheating.
So
I’m hoping to revamp the lot into three long-ish walks of about five miles
each, and I’ll write some new Wherigos that should be immune to the cheating
that is going on.
“er indoors TM” came home with KFC and
we watched the first episode of the fourth season of “Race Across The World”
in which five teams were racing from north Japan to somewhere in Vietnam. I’ve
already taken a dislike to two of the teams…
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