I was out for the count
last night when suddenly (and for no good reason) "Furry
Face TM" declared "Red Alert"
at 3.33am. He flew round the house, barking like a thing possessed
then took himself back to his basket and went to sleep as abruptly as
he had woken.
As I scoffed my toast at
brekkie time so my dog jumped onto the sofa, put his chin on my left
hand and fell asleep looking absolutely worn out.
Did I ever mention that I
never wanted a dog?
As I took said dog for
his walk we saw that something had ripped open the dustbin bag in the
front garden. Perhaps that was what had upset him in the night?
We were out for our walk
a little earlier than usual this morning; loads of kiddies were on
their way to school. Most of the smaller ones had nagging mothers in
tow. I can't remember my mother ever whinging and griping as much as
this lot seemed to be nagging this morning. Every single thing that
every single child did was wrong.
Once home I tidied up the
ripped bin bags and took them to the tip. I went via the YMCA
charity shop; I'd gathered together a box of books that I hadn't read
for years but were too good to throw away. I thought I'd give them to
the YMCA as it it easier to park there than it is near to any other
charity shop.
I certainly shan't take
anything to the YMCA charity shop ever again. They were
disinterested to the point of rudeness. It would have been churlish
of me not to leave the books with them, but the old harridan on the
counter made it clear that they were doing me a favour by taking the
books from me.
I had a little while
before work so I popped down to Folkestone to see the littlun. He
seemed a little under the weather. Whilst there I got to see a new
TV show; The
Furchester Hotel. It features Elmo and Cookie Monster (of
Sesame Street fame) running a hotel. In today's episode they had
a visit from a very important porcupine. TV don't get better than
that.
In a novel break with
tradition I showed up at work today. Word is that there will be a
vacancy for a senior position coming up at the labs at the Maidstone
Hospital soon. I'm tempted to apply....
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