Sid had a woofing fit
five minutes I went to bed last night. I settled him doown again. He
had another woofing fit five minutes after I dozed off. I slept well
and woke raring to go at 8am. I got up and my right knee immediately
collapsed underneath me. It was a good job the bed was there.
I came down and was very
pleased to see that there had been no "accidents"
overnight. Over brekkie I pondered geo-puzzles. There is one
in particular which had had me thinking (on and off) for
well oover a year. As i devoured my toast I had a stroke of genuis
when I realised.... well, I won't say what I realised as it has taken
me so long to realise it. However my genius seems to leavee a lot to
be desired. I think it isn't giving away any secrets to say that it
is (probably) is in the general area of a triangle with
vertices at Tunbridge Wells, Paddock Wood and Cranbrook.
Unfortunately my calculations have placed it in a parrallel universe
which features a negative latitude.
As I tried to correct my
error "Furry Face TM" was
snuggling closer and closer to me. For all that he acts the problem
child in public, he is actually a rather affectionate little dog, and
since Sid moved in with us, Fudge has become rather clingy.
Once "er indoors
TM" was ready we set off to Bethersden.
Santa was at the Reindeer farm today so we thought that Lacey might
like to go see him. Again. We went on the weekend before Christmas
last year and it was so incredibly busy. It was busy today, but not
as bad as last year. This year we saw Santa after about an hour's
wait. Last year we queued for an hour just to get tickets.
We saw Santa; he was
really good. And then we walked through the winter scenes; even
seeing the foxy one from "Frozen".
I then spent a small fortune getting fridge magnets and keyrings and
snow globes of our visit to Santa.
We weree peckish; we had
a quick sausage roll in the restaurant, and then had a go at the
tombola. Cheryl told the Mayor off for being a cheapskate and Lacey
walked away with three prizes.
From here we went on to
the animals. Reindeer, drizzledeer (like reindeer but smaller),
stormdeer (like reindeer but bigger), donkeys, emus, meerkats,
iguanaa, ducks, pythons, pigs. All sorts of creatures. "My
Boy TM" blagged some carrots and had a
whale of a time feeding them to every animal that eats carrots (and
one or two that don't).
You can see what we saw
by
clicking here.
All too soon it was time
to go; family had things to do and places to go. We drove over to
Canterbury. "er indoors TM" had
bought a jumper from "Go Outdoors" a while back only
to find a hole in it. The nice people at "Go Outdoors"
were really helpful and changed it right away.
We then went on to the
Cheapo-Bargains shop for some cheapo-bargains, and then on to
McDonalds for a spot of McLate McLunch. Again I had McKFC and was
loudly telling "er indoors TM"
that I like McKFC when the little boy at the next table told me that
KFC was rubbish.
Once back in Ashford we
ran the dogs round to the park and back just as it was getting dark.
As we walked I met an old friend from my days as a cub scout leader.
She too had become disillusioned with the way things were going at
our old scout group, and we spent five minutes whinging before saying
goodbye for another few years.
We came home; the dogs
had their tea and soon both were snoring. Sid on one sofa, Fudge
snuggling up to me on the other. Did I mention that Sid's visit has
made him rather clingy?
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