Despite the heat I slept well last night. Settled dogs
make such a difference.
I got up and had a look at the potted plants in the
garden. Every morning not-so-nice-next-door is out watering her plants,
but the soil in my pots was still damp from yesterday so I didn’t give them
another drenching. You can over-water… I think I might have don’t for my acers
by doing that.
I made toast and had a look at the Internet. All the
talk on social media this morning was about that odious Nigel Farage who was
playing silly beggars. Having been accused of all sorts of financial
irregularities, rather than facing a proper investigation he’s resigned as an
MP. He says he will stand in a by-election and the public can decide between
him and “the establishment”. It’s a rather silly attention-seeking stunt
that has blown up in his face as all of the other political parties have
announced they aren’t
going to stand in any by-election he might set off.
I really can’t understand why anyone would vote for
him anyway. It’s nothing to do with his policies; it’s him. He’s never seen in his constituency, and his record as an MEP (back in the day).
He was one of the top three most poorly attending MEPs and there were
allegations of his diverting money even then. His stock in trade is to stand on
the political sidelines and heckle. The last thing he ever wanted was to ever
get elected to anything because he would then have to do something.
And there was talk about how many non-native invasive species are now living
wild in the UK. I’ve seen scorpions, parakeets, wallabies and catfish all
within twenty miles of home, and I think I’ve heard wild boar (and seen
their turds) in Kings Wood.
I Munzed. I Wordled from “plant” to “demon”
in five goes, and we took the dogs out before it got too hot. A couple of days
ago a new geocache went live in Denge
Wood (near Petham). There was still no find logged on it this morning.
Looking at the maps it seemed as though it was a mile into the woods so we’d
have shade.
We had a minor snag when the road there was closed,
but we eventually got to where we needed to park. We had a good walk out to
where the geocache was supposed to be. The hint was “nestled at
the bottom of a tree” and with the difficulty set to the easiest
rating possible it shouldn’t have been a difficult find.
We
arrived to find the leaf litter had been brushed away from pretty much every
tree within fifty feet of where the GPS said we needed to be. Someone else had
obviously already been there and had a good look round before us.
We
searched for twenty minutes before giving up. But having had a decent walk out
we had a decent walk back to the car. And I took a few photos whilst we were out
too.
We got home just as it was getting too hot. “er indoors TM” sorted
us iced coffee. I marked a trainee’s essay on the laboratory investigation of
haemostatic abnormalities, then spent an afternoon slobbing in the garden.
Reading my Kindle, playing Meowdoku, “FEEDING THE FISH”, watering the
plants, having a little snooze…
We had a rather good dinner which we scoffed whilst watching
a film. Despicable Me 4 was rather good…
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