I slept rather well. At about three o’clock I heard Morgan
jumping off the bed. I hurried after him as he doesn’t wait very long to be let
out if “it’s in the bomb bay”. I couldn’t find him anywhere, so I went
back to bed and found him fast asleep in the warm spot I’d left.
I went back to kip and got up just after eight o’clock. I
went straight to the pond. The small leak was still intermittently dripping,
but there weren’t any major issues so pausing only briefly to tread in dog turd
I went back inside. “er indoors TM” topped up the bird
feeder; as well as pigeons and sparrows we’ve now got a blue tit coming for
food.
I peered into the Internet as I do. I had a friend request
on Facebook – not from a dubious pornmonger but from an ex-trainee. I’d not
heard from him for years…
I saw I’d missed some big open-air carnival/festival event at Woodchurch
yesterday. That had been a rather well-kept secret. There wasn’t much else
going on in cyber-space really. There was talk of the formation of a new garden
pond related Facebook page in which people weren’t allowed to be vindictive and
nasty in their comments, but only talk.
And then the dogs went frantic as a leaflet came through
the door advocating that we might vote for the Consensus party. Consensus? No –
I’d not heard of it either. Basically it’s some chap standing as an independent
candidate but it turns out that the financial rules concerning campaigning are
such that it is more advantageous to be in a political party than to be
independent. So this bloke has made his own political party. He talks a lot of
sense but, if elected, he’ll be in a minority of one and consequently pissing
in the wind.
With “er indoors TM” off out for brekkie
I put some washing in to scrub, loaded the dogs into the car and drove down to
World of Water at Rolvenden. Yesterday I’d phoned them and they’d told me
they’d got the aquarium sealant I needed to sort out the drip in the new bog
filter. As I pulled up at the place’s car park it suddenly struck me that I
might have tried Bybrook Barn first if only because that would have saved a
thirty-mile round trip..
The nice people at World of Water had what I needed, and I
had a little look round the display ponds too.
We came home, hung out the washing, and smeared sealant
over where I thought the leak was coming out. I also managed to smear it all
over the place whilst I was at it. I got most of it off of my hand, but some
remains. The filter seemed to have stopped dripping, so I left well alone, and
sat by the pond admiring how clear the water was. Compare it to a year ago when
it was running a thick green colour.
“er indoors TM” soon came home, and we
went for a little outing. First of all to Wittersham where “er indoors TM”
had an errand to run, then we went for a little walk round Tenterden. Over the
winter we did a couple of sets of Adventure Lab geocaches and got the final
locations of some other geocaches. We went and found those caches today. And on
the way back to the car we walked past the Old Dairy Brewery’s taproom. So we
sat in the garden and had a pint of “No Mikey, No” whilst the dogs
scoffed some home-made dog treats.
We came home and I went straight out to the pond. The fix
to the bog filter seems to have worked; if only for now.
Hopefully “er indoors TM” will boil up
some dinner soon… What with pond shops and smearing sealants and walking dogs
and brewery tap rooms I forgot to scoff anything at lunch time. I’m a tad peckish
now…
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