Another
restless night. Perhaps the dogs should sleep downstairs? There’s no denying
that having four dogs is a tad keen. Over brekkie Pogo crapped on the living
room floor. It is closer to the garden than the bedroom, so I suppose that is an
improvement on yesterday. As I scoffed my toast Fudge sat with me. He looked
like it was all too much for him as well.
Facebook was
filled with all sorts of stuff for Remembrance Day this morning, as well it
should be. But I couldn’t understand what some people were posting up. Somehow
they felt that wanting to remain part of the EU as being disrespectful to those
who’d fought in the wars. Perhaps these people haven’t read much history? Another
friend was seriously proposing that the entire country should have taken the
day off work today for Remembrance. Surely one day off wouldn’t hurt the nation,
he said… Well, speaking for myself there is a very good reason why my workplace
never closes.
I popped
round to B&Q to buy some odds and sods, and came home for what was supposed
to be a day of D.I.Y. The light fitting at the kitchen end of the living room
has been knacked for some time. Having been operating in the gloom for some
time we decided to replace it with a standard “rose” light fitting. But
once we’d got the old knacked fitting down we found there was far too much
loose wiring to be shoved inside a standard “rose” light fitting. So we
both went back to B&Q.
There was a
range of light fittings. We needed something with a “skirt” big enough
to stuff all the wiring into, but not too heavy so’s it would bring the ceiling
down. B&Q had quite a good range of stuff. To be fair to B&Q *if*
you know what you want then they aren’t too bad. It’s when you ask their staff
for advice that you run into problems. We toyed with a colour-changing light
thingy but soon realised that the novelty of that would wear off very fast. I
quite liked the larger lights which I could only describe as “pendulous
globes of joy” but "er indoors TM" wasn’t keen. In
retrospect they were rather hideous. In the end we got something not entirely
unlike what we already had. And to my absolute amazement we got the new thing
in place on the first attempt and with minimal fuss and absolutely no swearing
whatsoever.
I wonder how long it will last?
I had planned to replace the garden light and to fix the
small leak on the lobby roof as well, but the rain outside put me off of that
idea. I *think* I’ve found the source
of the leak and I’ve bodged something until it is dry enough to apply the
sealant.
We then went
to Aldi to get the shopping. Usually "er indoors TM" gets the
shopping on her own. I don’t usually go, and today I reminded myself why not. The
normal people were out in force today. Does it *really* take the entire family of mum, dad, grandma and four kids
to get the shopping? Is it a supermarket or a kids’ play area? Do people really
have to physically pick up and scrutinise every single item in the shop before
deciding they don’t actually want any of it?
I was glad to
get home.
Once home we
had a quick bit of dinner then took the dogs round the park. Four dogs is hard
work. To be honest the hardest part on our walk was Sid. He didn’t really want
to go out, and if wasn’t dragged he wouldn’t have moved at all. It was a shame
that both Fudge and Pogo decided to “express the love that dare not speak
its name” at Sid just as OrangeHead came in our direction across the co-op
field. OrangeHead was having a whinge about the local thugs who ride their
motorbikes around the co-op field. To be fair to the local thugs they were all
sitting quietly by their motorbikes and not riding them anywhere, not one of
the thugs was old enough to drive a motorbike legally, and if they didn’t ride
them round the co-op field where would they ride them? There are those who
would ask what they were doing with motorbikes in the first place, but… “not
my circus, not my monkeys”.
A quick Belgian bun, then I set
about ironing shirts and trousers. A dull task, but there it is. They don’t
iron themselves.
Usually on Sundays we are out.
But being home "er indoors TM" boiled up a
rather good roast dinner. Haven’t had a roast at home for some time. The dogs
enjoyed their bowlfuls of chicken and potato and vegetables.
And with "er indoors TM" off bowling I
watched a couple of episodes of “Prison
Break” whilst all four dogs slept off their dinner.
Perhaps I should have kept them
awake so they might sleep later?
Today was rather dull…
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