I had
something of a restless night. "er indoors TM" was arguing with one of the dogs in the
small hours. I'm not sure which one; I pretended to be asleep; I wasn't getting
involved.
Over brekkie
I watched another episode of "Flowers" then set off to Maidstone and work. As I drove the pundits on
the radio were talking to some of the farmers on the island of Iona. Every year
thousands of holidaymakers invade the local farms thinking that the farmland is
fair game for walking and running their dogs and staging picnics and parties.
Some of the local farmers were getting rather irate. Why do people not respect
farmland? I walk through enough if the stuff. It's not that hard to follow
footpaths, keep the dogs on leads and generally *not* run amok.
There was
then talk of the New year Honours list. When I was a lad I had this idea that I
would like to end up with an OBE. Today's recipients of honours included Elton
John, Floella Benjamin (from "Play
School"), Nadiya Hussain (off of
"Bake Off"), Olivia Newton John and the drummer out of "Queen". Perhaps if more mention
had been made of why honours had been given out rather than of who got them
then I might have taken more notice.
I got to work
and did my bit. As I did my bit I was thinking quite a bit about holidays.
Yesterday Cheryl announced that this year's family holiday will be to the Cape
Verde islands. I said "Yes Ma'am" and booked the week off. If any of my loyal readers fancy
dog-sitting for a week in July...
And yesterday
evening I was chatting on-line to a friend who was taking her family for a day
trip to the Lego theme park in Denmark. With a flight from Stansted to Bilund
costing twenty-three quid, the thing can be done as a day trip. I'm vaguely
thinking going in February if anyone fancies a day out. Either as a trip to the
Lego theme park, or as a day hunting Tupperware. I’m not sure which yet.
I came home
to find "er indoors TM" had gone shopping. I also came
home to find a kitchen floor awash with dog diarrhoea (or dire rear as I
texted to "er indoors TM"). It didn’t take that long
to clear up. Mopping up with bleach took a little longer, but it is all part of
the whole “dog” experience.
Did I ever mention that I never wanted a
dog? Let alone four…
"er indoors TM" boiled up a rather
good bit of dinner, and as we scoffed it we watched the new re-make of “Worzel
Gummidge”. A lot of people have been very negative about it on-line. I
thought it was rather good…
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