I rather ached when I woke, which was odd bearing in
mind that we’ve not really exerted ourselves massively. I got up and had a
shave, and then took the dogs round the garden (again) gathering dung
and again I looked at a glorious morning.
As brekkie was being prepared I went and sat with
little Bailey who has claimed one of the sofas as her own. She seems to be
struggling this week. Normally spending about eighteen hours a day asleep,
being constantly awake is taking its toll on her. I sat with her… and woke an
hour later with all three dogs asleep on me.
We had a particularly good bit of brekkie, then looked
at the geo map. Admittedly the weather forecast was a tad iffy, but we had this
plan that if we went for a little walk just north of Bury St Edmunds we might
drop Jess and Charlotte off at the train station on the way back to the
cottage.
It was a good plan. In theory…
We got to the designated parking spot and the heavens
opened. We waited for fifteen minutes for the rain to abate, then went for a
little walk. After a few hundred yards it hossed down rather epically. Only for
a few minutes but enough to soak us. My lightweight raincoat needs to be either
replaced or binned.
But the sun came out. Rather brightly. We were all dry
in two minutes so we carried on. We had a good walk though rather pretty
woodlands. We saw deer. We found a dead deer, and some of us rolled in it (as
you do). We even found geocaches.
And then it rained. Seriously rained. Whatever rain
you’ve seen before was just a light sprinkle compared to this. Within minutes
my pants were ringing wet.
We abandoned and came back to the cottage where the
dogs got a bath. With soap. As we scrubbed the dogs so Karl and Tracey ran Jess
and Charlotte back to the train station at Bury St Edmonds, and we had a lazy
cuppa. A cup of coffee as opposed to a pint.
We had a rather lazy evening with scampi and chips and
the Infinity table playing Blokus (2-D) and Sorry…
I
took a few photos today.
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