My phone beeped at half past four to tell me that “er
indoors TM” had posted to the
Internet some hours previously. I wish it wouldn’t do that. I then lay awake
until seven o’clock when I got up feeling like death warmed up.
I got up, made toast and had a look at the Internet.
It would seem that I’ve survived another “End Of The World”. Apparently
mass overpopulation was supposed to have done for us all yesterday. I can remember my
first “End Of The World” which was scheduled for the first of January
1980; me and my old mate Douggie Small were at a bit of a loose end when it
didn’t happen. There’s been several since… I suppose yesterday’s came closest
what with the Microsoft issue, but that’s
all over now. I asked Microsoft Copilot if it was feeling better;
it said that it was, and thanked me for asking.
I Munzed, Wordled from “world” to “randy”
in four goes.
Steve was on the radio. This morning the “Guess the
Lyrics” competition was: “The rain exploded with a mighty crash as we
fell into the sun”. It immediately seemed familiar… Many years ago an uncle
gave me a record token as a present. Not really being into music when I was
nine years old an aunt suggested I might get the tape cassette “Band on the
Run” by Paul McCartney and Wings. I didn’t like it. My aunt suggested that
if I played it a few times I’d get into it. I listened to it time and again,
but never really took to it. But that’s what this
morning’s lyrics were.
“er indoors TM” was
off out with Craft Club today so it was just me taking the dogs to Dog Club
this morning. The dogs all wore coats; it was rather cold. I again scraped ice
from the car before we went.
We had a good session at Dog Club though. Only a dozen
or so dogs but all had fun. And in a novel break with tradition one of the
other dogs told Morgan off. He needed telling though; he can get a bit too
forceful and pushy and it did him good to be taken down a peg or two.
It would have been good to have stayed a little
longer, but Bailey was getting cold. She’s fine all the time she runs about and
joins in what’s going on, but she will just sit and look at people (with a
rather pathetic expression) hoping for a cuddle. It generally works, but
she gets cold waiting for it to work, and she’s only small.
We drove home listening to Steve doing the Mystery
Year competition on the radio. Prince Edward getting married and “Don’t Call
Me Baby” in the charts? 1999.
Once home I put a load of washing into scrub, made
myself a cuppa and as the dogs snored I waited for washing to wash. As I waited
I listened to Steve on the radio and had a look at more geo-puzzles. Now
there’s a checker on most of the ones at the far east of the county it is worth
my while having a go at them. I couldn’t be arsed with having a go, emailing in
an answer and waiting up to two days to be told I was wrong.
The first one had pictures of the leaves of sixteen
different trees. The puzzle had leaves in pairs. Figuring out what they were
took some time. The puzzle would (I think) be solved by counting up the
letters in the names of each tree… however Google gave several names for each
tree. For example “oak” could be
“common oak” or “pedunculate oak”. I gave up with that and moved
on to one about identifying frogs… again each picture had several possible
answers. There was one with constellations which could have involves counting
letters, light years of distance, arc minutes… There was one about monkeys in
video games… PEGI rating, year of release… I didn’t solve any.
Some of these puzzle geocaches get found less than
once a year…
The washing machine finished. I hung out washing on
the clothes horse which I put by a radiator and ironed shirts whilst they were
wet. As I ironed I watched a film on Netflix. “Emma”
was based on the Jane Austen book and was a bit on the crap side really.
And then I had a message. Last Sunday I mentioned that I’d written a
letter of support for an ex-trainee who is going up before our professional
regulator. The allegations have now been made public. It doesn’t look good.
Did he do it? Like I said last weekI can’t say that he didn’t because I
don’t have absolute proof that he didn’t. All I can do is write a letter to the
adjudicating committee saying that I find these allegations incredibly serious,
very unlikely and very out of character. I’ve written that letter… Am I
being cynical in wondering if I will regret having done so. After all, the two hundred and
eighty-fifty Rule of Acquisition tells us that no good
deed ever goes unpunished.
“er indoors TM” returned,
and we got the Infinity table out and played a few rounds of “Ticket to Ride”.
With a kebab for tea, Latvian ale, and me winning six out of seven games it was
a rather good way to spend the evening.
I rarely (if ever) win at “Ticket To Ride”.
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