I woke feeling full of energy and raring to go… at
three o’clock. I then dozed on and off for the rest of the night finally
getting up shortly before seven o’clock.
I made toast and had a look at the Internet. It was
still there and much the same as ever it was carrying out its vital role. Its
vital role being to allow people to argue bitterly over trivia. The NHS, fish
tanks, frozen plasma, frogspawn… no matter what the topic there were people
queueing up to squabble.
I had a look at my emails. Someone had been round
Kings Wood yesterday and found over thirty of the caches I’d hidden up there.
That was a relief – I won’t have to replace those ones just yet.
And I had some replies. A couple of days ago I looked
at getting a custom-made fish tank which might better fit into the space where
the current fish tank sits. The firm which advertises “We offer high end bespoke
aquarium design & installation services including manufacture and
maintaining aquariums for private and commercial clients in the UK” replied
to say “Sorry
this isn’t something we can help with”. One must wonder what
a company that makes fish tanks can help with, if not with making fish tanks.
Another company got back to me saying they could make be a tank to the size and
shape I wanted… for two hundred quid (not including delivery).
I think I’ll make do with what I’ve got.
I Munzed, and started a new Wordle streak. Starting
with “begin” I went through “tithe” and “field” to come up
with “fiery”.
As I fiddled on-line so Steve was on the radio. I
amazed myself with the “Guess the Lyrics” competition this morning. “All
you need is your own imagination so use it, that’s what it’s for”. No? –
Vogue by Madonna… How did I know that one?
Being Saturday we went round to Repton and Dog Club.
There was a minor hiccup this morning as I arrived to find a sign on the car
park gate saying that the car park was closed due to an electrical fault. I
didn’t unlock that gate but went in through the side gate. And then some woman
drove up, unlocked the gate and drove in. I asked her if we were allowed to use
the car park as there was a sign saying the car park was closed. She stared
blankly at me so I pointed out the notice. From the way she looked at it I got
the distinct impression that she couldn’t read, and she chattered on about how
we needed to use the car park.
I’ve emailed the centre to find out what’s going on.
Other than that, Dog Club passed off rather well. It
was a bit cold and a bit muddy, but everyone seemed to have a good time. We had
about fifteen dogs along, and the only fly in the ointment was when Luna and
Morgan rolled in fox poo.
“er indoors TM” set off to Craft
Club. As I drove the dogs home Steve was doing the “Mystery
Year” competition on the radio. The Strawbs “Part of the Union” and
the launch of the Austin Allegro? 1973.
We had a bath; muddy paws and fox poo needed
scrubbing. I hung out the washing, had a little tidy-up (not that you’d
notice!) and ran round with the Hoover. I then gathered dog dung from the
garden and topped up the bird feeder. Seeing how the fallen bird seed was
sprouting I scattered some of it over the lawn.
I made myself a cuppa, then spent a little while
assessing more trainee’s work and wrote up a little CPD all in between shouting
at the dogs who were barking at absolutely everything that went past the house.
The dogs eventually nodded off, and so did I. “er
indoors TM” woke me when she came
home with dinner. We scoffed it as we watched the first two episodes of the new
“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy”.
I won’t say it was rubbish; it wasn’t. It was rather good really. There were
loads of little Easter Eggs in there for the fans (if you watched closely
enough), but I suppose that what with it being the twelfth Star Trek series
(yes – there’s twelve Star Trek series and that’s not counting the films!)
it seemed as though it was just yet more of the same. Rather good more of the
same… but it was nothing new. I don’t know what I was expecting from it, but I had
been expecting something different to what it was.
Steve, Sarah and Chris arrived and we had a very good
evening playing games on Chris’s big Infinity Table. The first game (Game of
Life) was a tad difficult as the table was incredibly unresponsive, but
rebooting and turning off the Internet connection sorted the issue. We then had
a very good game of Sorry and of Ticket to Ride. I came last, but we had a good
time.
I do like our games nights…
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