I slept for nine hours last night. Something of a result. I
got up, and as I do most mornings, made toast and peered into the Internet.
Apparently last night was Hastings Bonfire Parade. I should have known that,
and we wouldn’t have gone anyway, but I felt rather miffed that I’d missed it.
Glossing over endless adverts for lengthy holidays in
far-away places there wasn’t much else happening on-line, so I went and fetched
the car from where I’d parked it after Dog Club yesterday. It started bleating
about low tyre pressures; it claimed all four tyres needed a bit of air. So I
got the pump out. They all did.
This has left me wondering – I’ve never had a car that
tells me about tyre pressures before. Had I been driving round with low tyre
pressures for years? I’ll never know.
And with tyres pumped I went into the garden and spent half
an hour shifting shingle for the current ongoing pond project.
After half an hour we got the dogs onto their leads and
drove down to Ham Street. I’d suggested a little walk to “er indoors TM”,
and “My Boy TM”, Cheryl and Ro-Ro wanted to come along
too.
As always when looking for a little walk I’d looked at the
geocache map and spotted a multi-cache near Ham Street garden centre. This
involved going to the given location and solving a little puzzle to find the
final location of the geocache. Looking at the map it was pretty obvious that
the cache would be on the footpath along the military canal, and whichever way
we went would put us near a second geocache… so there was our walk laid out for
us.
We all met up in a lay-by near Ham Street; I solved the
puzzle and sure enough we had a final location a quarter of a mile down the
canal. After a quick(ish) find we carried on to a notice board about the
construction of the canal. The second cache was a puzzle based on this notice
board. We got the information we needed and we carried on walking as I solved
the puzzle. It didn’t take me long to realise we’d walked past the cache. So we
carried along the canal as far as the railway line then turned back. The second
cache was soon found. It was… I won’t give spoilers, but the
non-hunters-of-Tupperware in our group were rather impressed.
I was impressed too. Again a silly little hobby had given
us a rather good walk along a rather pretty canal where we wouldn’t otherwise
have gone. As we came along the canal we saw herons and egrets, swans and
cygnets, and even a hawk. We saw some people fishing, and one other group of
walkers, but other than that we had the world to ourselves. Geocaching takes us
to some rather good places.
With walk walked we drove up the road to Ham Street garden
centre. The place has rebuilt its car park. We had a nosey round, then on
seeing the café was dog-friendly we had a cuppa. I suspect that when they said
“dog friendly” they weren’t expecting us to bring in four, but they were
amazingly well behaved. A cuppa and a slice of lemon drizzle cake went down
very well.
We said our goodbyes and came home. I went out to the
garden and cracked on shifting shingle, then lifted the weed-proof membranes
and dug out the basic shape for my new bog filter. As I dug I realized that two
of the garden slabs which had been underneath the old garden tub were exactly
the right size to line the hole I’d dug. But getting them level would take some
doing. That can be tomorrow’s project…
I came in for coffee and cake (oh yus!) and sent an
email to AllPondSolutions – I need a new input thingy for the pressure filter.
The existing one seems to have a crack and is dripping.
“er indoors TM” boiled up a
rather good curry which we scoffed whilst watching the first episode of the
fifth season of “Lego Masters: Australia”. In this season they’ve
brought back winners and runners-up from the first four seasons to have a “Grand
Masters” contest.
It’s a shame they’ve brought back the opinionated and
arrogant idiot from the first season; hope he loses.
(is that wrong of me?)
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