As I perused Facebook this morning I saw there was a model railway
exhibition just up the road happening today. Not that I’m
a fan of model railways… but it would have cost twenty-five quid for the two of
us to have gone and had a look round. There was also a beer festival going on
as part of the railway festival… that had been kept quiet. But I suppose that
for all that beer festivals were fun in the past, in the cold light of day they
are just about spending a lot of money to get a headache.
There was also a lot of anti-Donald Trump propaganda on
Facebook… again from non-Americans.
I Munzed, and got rather stuck on Wordle again. That either
used up half an hour, or wasted it, depending on your perspective. I turned off
the lap-top and got ready for the off.
As we drove to Repton we turned on the radio. I got Steve’s
“Guess the Lyrics” competition – “I’m a professional cynic but my
heart’s not in in”? No - Blur – Country House.
Dog Club was rather busy today. At one point I think
counted twenty-four dogs, but it was difficult to be sure – they all kept
charging about.
Dog Club rather over-ran and we missed the Mystery Year
competition on the radio. If only it went from ten o’clock till half past…
We came home and had a cuppa with “My Boy TM”
who popped in, then I started on yet another garden project. The gravel around
our big water-gusher lays on metal chicken wire grids, Over the years where
people and dogs have walked across it, the chicken wire has bent and stuck up
out of the gravel. It looked awful and could give a scratch. So I hoiked up all
the gravel, put some weed-proofing membranes over the chicken wire grids to
keep it down, and re-laid the gravel. Sadly whilst scooping up the gravel a lot
had fallen into the water reservoir…
We loaded the dogs into the car and popped to Bybrook Barn
to get some more.
Eventually (over four hours later) I got the
gravelled area finished… it looked just the same as when I started with one
major difference. When we turn the gusher on the water doesn’t drain away. The
weedproof membrane is also waterproof. Ho hum.
I’ll think about that one…
Chris and Sue popped round for an hour or so, and brought
their pups. We had a good afternoon… the only fly in the ointment was that
Treacle got rather possessive over the dog toys. She was sitting under the table
with an assortment of balls and bones and toys and was guarding the lot.
The new season of “Doctor Who” started this evening.
Before watching that we thought we’d better catch up with – we’d not seen the
Christmas episode so we watched that.
I fell asleep half way through.
I want to like “Doctor Who”. It always used to be a
fun adventure starring a hero character. What I saw of the Christmas episode
was a frankly over-convoluted plot starring a bit of an idiot.
Such a shame.
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