Despite all its connections to the Internet being turned
off, my phone went berserk with a flurry of notification pings shortly after
four o’clock. And despite the alarm being turned off, it played the alarm at
seven o’clock.
That phone does what it likes.
I made toast and peered into the Internet. It hadn’t really
changed. Petty triviality and bickering persisted as it always does. There was
quite the argument over the term “totty” on a Facebook group about the
1970s. I felt about commenting but decided against it.
There were quite a few people posting the same sort of
thing to work-related Facebook groups this morning too. Having spent many years
becoming qualified to do the job, people were rather surprised to realise that
hospitals operate round the clock, and so many people wanted suggestions for a
nine-to-five job for which they could use their existing qualifications and not
have to go right back to square one and start again from scratch.
You’d think people would find out what a job entails before
spending six years training for it, wouldn’t you?
Being Saturday we got ourselves organized and set off to
Dog Club. Yesterday we came home from the woods via Pets at Home where I got
Treacle a new tennis ball for Dog Club. She lost it within a minute of
arriving; just as well I’d bought a spare as well. We had a great time at Dog
Club. At one point I counted seventeen dogs. I’m not sure I counted them all (they
kept moving about) and three more arrived after I’d counted. Morgan did get
a little over-excited, but it is all part of his learning to socialize. He
comes when called, and just showing him his muzzle calms him rather
impressively.
Sadly we missed Steve’s Mystery Year competition on the
radio; just as we drove away so Steve was on the radio giving the answer saying
that he’d not had an entry from us and that Dog Club must have over-run.
It had.
We came home for a cuppa, then “er indoors TM”
set off to Hobbycraft for a new glue gun. Hers had vanished. I spent a
frustrating hour struggling with a geo-puzzle. If any of my loyal readers know
how to reverse a text string in Microsoft Word (i.e. turn “abchef” into
“fedcba”) please let me know.
We then drove out to Biddenden for the monthly geo-meet-up.
Twenty of us met in the garden of the Three Chimneys and spent a very pleasant
afternoon chatting about all things geocachical.
We came home, and after a little doze Steve and Sarah
arrived, followed by Chris. We had a very good evening round the Infinity table
playing “Game of Life”, “Sorry” and “Ticket to Ride”. I
was rather smug when I won at “Sorry”, and I think I’ll do much better
at “Ticket to Ride” next time now that I’ve figured out how the scoring
works.
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