Wet and blurred

Though it had been frosty first thing, it soon changed. The frost melted and it started to rain. It wasn't heavy rain, but it was incessant. We spent the morning sitting and chatting with Urban-Cub about her new job, between the various congratulatory phone calls that were filtering in.

While all this was going on, the Silver Vixen's new Apple Watch arrived so the Gorse Fox set that up for her. This has various additional features over and above those on her defunct model. Well, it works for a start! also it provide fall notification, blood oxygen levels, ECG traces, and sleep monitoring. Once that was done, the Gorse Fox contacted Apple to see about getting the old watch fixed. The process was managed via "Chat" and prompted the Gorse Fox to go back through all of the things he had already tried. The conclusion was that it was dead and needed to be sent away for repair. The Gorse Fox knew this already, but had to play the game. He now has to wait for the formal packaging to arrive so that the watch can be returned safely.

At lunchtime the Silver Vixen was busy searching Amazon for Christmas gifts, Urban-Cub was was getting ready to go back to sign her contract, and the Gorse Fox was determined to go for a walk. In the circumstances this seemed like the perfect time to try out his new waterproof trousers. All covered up in Gore-Tex jacket, Waterproof trousers, and Gore-tex shoes he headed out into the rain. The first order of the day was to remove his glasses. The rain may not have been heavy, but it was coating his glasses in no time. This meant that the next hour was spent seeing the Shripney loop through the myopic blur of short sight, rain, and spray. By the time he got home his waterproofs had proved themselves. Externally soaked from head to foot, he was completely dry underneath, and had ticked off another 5.5 km.