Yesterday I acquired a pile of laundry from the most recent
fruit of my loin. Having got two loads sorted last night, finding myself awake
at four o’clock this morning I put a third load in, and went back to bed for a
bit. That load was out on the line and the last lot was in washing by half past
seven.
Before I shaved I stepped on the scales. I’ve shifted
another pound this week. I made toast and had my usual look at the Internet. It
was much the same as ever. People all around the world were finding fault with
President Trump… including some Lutheran bishops who’ve got
the arse because the President has established a new task force to eradicate anti-Christian
bias. You’d think that bishops would like someone going round enforcing their
crackpot nonsense wouldn’t you? It turns out that the crackpot nonsense being
enforced isn’t exactly their specific interpretation of crackpot nonsense.
There’s religion for you. From my days of being a Steward in the Methodist
church I know that there’s not two so-called Christians on the planet who
actually believe the same thing.
Two good friends had birthdays today; neither of whom I see
often enough these days. One lives in Cheltenham and we’re hoping to go down to
visit later in the year – we’ve been looking at dog friendly B&Bs in the
area. The other was someone with whom I walked to school every day for years.
We were in the Boys Brigade together, went fishing and drinking together… he’s
lived in Sweden for over thirty years. We meet up on rare occasions. Did you
know there’s no ferries from the UK to Scandinavia any more? Whenever he comes
to the UK he faces a car drive of a thousand miles.
I munzed, got Wordle (booty) on the fourth attempt
following shine, black and brood, hung out a second load of washing, put a
third load in, then took the dogs out.
We went up to the woods where we had a good walk.
Relatively uneventful… up to the point where Bailey found a leg bone. She had
been rather subdued earlier; eating grass in the garden this morning. She had
bellyache and then ate the foul muck she found when we are out. Like a deer’s
leg bone.
We came home where I sorted us a cuppa, hung out more
washing then went on a little road trip.
A new geocache had gone live in Tenterden. Normally I
wouldn’t have bothered but I could combine that with some garden shopping. Or
so I thought.
I got to Turner’s field in Tenterden where I drew a blank.
The description said “directly above you is a branch, there is a hole in the
top of the branch”. The branches I could reach had nothing. There was
an obvious-looking hidey-hole about fifteen feet up, but I wasn’t going to
climb up. It later transpired that the chap whose geocache it was is a complete
novice, and he plans to put the thing out tomorrow.
From there I drove down to Rolvenden and World of Water.
The filter in my little pond needs cleaning out with annoying regularity. I had
this idea that a pressure filter (like the big pond has) might be a
plan. Sadly the smallest available is designed for a pond five times the size
and costs over two hundred quid.
I had a look at water lilies too. Last year they were being
sold for twelve quid a plant. This year the going rate is twenty-five quid.
I came home via Tenterden garden centre where the water
lilies were going at thirty quid each.
If any of my loyal readers know of a pond or river that has
water lilies… Failing that I’m going to send “My Boy TM” into
the pond the next time he goes fishing.
I voomed round the garden with the bionic burner, then once
I’d arranged a car service for next week I had a look on Amazon. They had water
lilies… three for twenty quid. It pays to shop around. However these were
billed as “maximum depth 30 cm” so that’s no good. The garden gnomes on
Amazon were (surprisingly) more expensive than Whelan’s. I ordered some
fish food for the pond fish though. Rather than just re-ordering what I used to
get I had a look, and for two quid more than I usually spend I got a bag of
over twice the size. With Darcie now eating the fish food (as well as the
dogs) I need as much as I can get.
“er indoors TM” boiled up fish
and chips then went bowling. I settled on the sofa underneath a pile of dogs
and watched “Orange is the New Black”.
Today was supposedly a day off – I’m worn out.
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