I slept well. I got up at half past seven, made toast
and had my usual peer into the Internet. It was much the same as ever. Today’s
conspiracy theory was that space is fake. Moon, stars, planets, the whole lot…
all fake according to some half-wit called Judith when replying to an article
about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope,
which was launched over the weekend and is hoped to spend years looking at
planets, dark matter, dark energy and all the other enormous questions humanity
has been scratching its head over since somebody first looked up and thought, “What
the f… is all that?” Well, Judith has given us the answer. And she seemed
to be serious even though she was unable to string together a sentence, let
alone a coherent argument.
People were posting to work-related Facebook groups.
Some were discussing methods of compatibility testing of donor blood… methods
which were obsolete and discontinued before I started in the field forty-five
years ago. And others were asking advice on how to test for certain conditions
and how to perform various tests that they’d heard about and wondered what they
were. (People claiming to be lab managers…) The more I follow blood
testing on Facebook the more convinced I am that whereas here in the UK we have
national standards of how to do things, the rest of the world makes it up as it
goes along.
I Munzed, Wordled from “thing” to “remix”
on the fifth attempt. Wordle is hard work. Sometimes it is obvious how I should
proceed, other times not so. Like today – “remix”? Seriously?
We went for our walk. As always Bailey was incredibly
excited about going out, and did her usual thing of greeting the world with a
huge bark as we walked out of the door. She always does that. I wish she
wouldn’t.
As we drove the pundits on the radio were talking
about how the new Prime Minister is to address Parliament for the first time
today. First time !?!?! How long has he been Prime Minister… it turns
out that Parliament shut up shop on July 17th and only re-opened
today.
We got to the woods where something odd was going on.
The car park was all but deserted. We were the third car in there. But we met
loads of people in the woods. Far more than we usually do. Have people found
some obscure place to park to avoid the parking fees (even though they
aren’t in force yet).
We had a good walk. We saw deer. The huge fungus that
was at the half-way point last year has reappeared. We met the dog walkers we
often meet; Bailey got a fuss from them.
We came home via the lower car park which also has
signs up about car park charges coming.
As we drove I listened to more Adrian Mole MP3. He’s
now got nits.
We got home. I made us a cuppa with a choco-break bar
(far better than a kit-kat), then I had a two-hour pootle in the garden.
I bionically burned the weeds that had taken advantage of the recent rain. I
hacked back the plants which were pouring over the fence from next door. I
organised a new pole for the lilac. And I have a theory about what did for the
acers. Their pots were swimming with water so I drilled some holes in the
bottom to drain out excess water.
“er indoors TM” boiled
up some lunch, and with that scoffed I did the ironing. As I ironed I watched
the last episode of “Stranger Things”. In keeping with the rest of the
show the last episode was good, but went on for far too long.
I wondered what I might watch next… What with various
stuff on catch-up to say nothing of Netflix, Paramount Plus, Disney, i-player
and Prime video there’s no shortage of things to watch. Back in the day we had
three channels. However did we cope then?
And in closing today I’ve been nominated for a geocaching award
in the “Outstanding Community Contribution”. Someone (I have
absolutely no idea who) has written about me “He is an amazing hider.
His cache trails in KingsWood are brilliant – he always maintains them and
refreshes the trails every couple of years so we get to explore different areas
of the woods. His mystery caches are fantastic – some are really tricky (but he
is always happy to give you a hint) and some are easier but fun (perfect for
newbies). He is always happy to give advice and help in any way he can. He also
organises lots of great events and always brings along his three famous
geodogs. He is an all-round great guy and a credit to this wonderful game”.
I’ve very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand I
am flattered and humbled to be nominated. On the other hand I feel a bit of a
fraud.
I haven’t really done that much more than *lots*
of other people have done.
I wonder if there’s a prize?
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