18 January 2025 (Saturday) - Dog Club, A Sleepover

I had a relatively good night asleep up until about five o’clock when I had the most vivid nightmare in which someone with whom I worked (over forty years ago) claimed that we’d both done the dirty deed at each other in a dream, and they had the right hump that I was utterly indifferent about it.
I’m blaming blood pressure.
 
I got up and had a bit of brekkie whilst peering at the Internet. This morning a flat-earther was kicking off. Mind you I say “a flat-earther”; more often than not these people are deliberately winding others up. If you stand on the beach and look at the horizon you can see the world is round. Mind you, people thought it was flat for hundreds of years even though they could see it was round.
I then saw an avert for “Bark Free Masterclass” which claimed to be a free way of stopping your dog barking. Treacle does get a bit woofy in the evenings when she wants biscuits so I thought I’d give it a go. It was a scam. After a five-minute video about what a pain it is having you dog bite the postman, they then asked for a hundred dollars. You’d think that someone would report these misleading scams, wouldn’t you?
I did.
 
I Munzed, got Wordle on the second attempt, harvested a bumper crop of dog turds and got ready for the morning. It was a tad cold so the dogs all got their coats on. It has to be said that they are far better with coats than my Fudge ever was. And once coated we set off to Repton.
As we drove Steve was on the radio doing the “Guess the Lyrics” competition. I had no idea what that was, and we got to the paddock at Repton before he told us what it was.
 
Dog Club went rather well. For all that he loves chasing other dogs, Morgan seems to have stopped nipping. There was quite a bit of chasing going on today, as well as wallowing in the muddy puddles, and scrounging for dog treats. Together with one of the smaller children I tried counting dogs. The trouble with trying to get a dog count is that they all keep moving about. We both counted a few times, and our estimates of attendance ranged from seventeen to twenty-two.
As we got into the car to come home Steve gave the last clue for the Mystery Year competition. Blockbuster by Sweet. 1973.
 
We came home. As “er indoors TM looked for somewhere to park I popped to the corner shop where I got us almond croissants. Almonds are good for lowering blood pressure, so that was a result. There are those that say that croissants aren’t so good, but you can’t have everything. I suspect that after I see the doc next week I won’t be able to have anything, but time will tell.
We had a cuppa with those almond croissants and I counted up the Dog Club money. Some people pay their Dog Club subs directly to the Repton people via text message. Others prefer to pay cash so I pop a pot out and every couple of weeks I count up the takings and transfer that amount (plus nine quid for our three) to the Repton people’s bank account. I won’t say how much I transfer every couple of weeks, but I’ll make the observation that it is some months since I’ve had to get any cash out of a cashpoint machine.
 
“er indoors TM went shopping and I watched an episode of “Poldark”. Much as I’m liking the show I can remember Demelza’s bosom heaving a lot more when I watched it last time. From an entirely beastly point of view I can remember her having a far more impressive chest than the one she isn’t brandishing at the moment. And with “er indoors TM” returned from shopping I fell asleep in front of the telly and slept for most of the afternoon.
 
The evening wasn’t quite so restful though. Darcie WaaWaa TM has come for a sleepover. After a rather intense session of dog-snogging and then refusing to eat our pizza we then created a new game which involves shouting “CATCH !” and then flinging various assorted objects around the kitchen.
I’m worn out… And my blood pressure is noticeably up on this morning.

 

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