With “er indoors TM” and “Darcie Waa Waa TM”
spending the night in the attic room, all the dogs went up too. Consequently I
had the bed to myself and had nine hours asleep. Nine hours. Result.
I was woken by the sound of Darcie having a tantrum shortly
after eight o’clock.
We all got up and came downstairs. Littlun was repeating “nana
nana nana” so thinking she wanted fruit we gave her a banana. She hurled
that away; if she doesn’t want something, it gets thrown. Eventually she
settled for a bowl of dry cornflakes and shreddies for brekkie with the dogs
hoovering up what she didn’t eat. I had a bowl of cornflakes too – not had that
for ages. It was rather good.
As we scoffed we watched “Octonauts”; a sub-aqua
version of “Paw Patrol”, then went into the garden where we practiced
our latest trick; “UP!!!”. For the uninitiated, “UP!!!” involves
Darcie’s hands holding your index fingers for support whilst she then walks up
and down the garden with you bending over to support her until the pain in your
back is insufferable. My back was agony after five minutes.
After a couple of hours of “UP!!!” “Daddy’s Little Angel TM”
arrived and said that “Darcie Waa Waa TM” hasn’t really shown
much interest in walking up till now. Perhaps we’ve started something here?
Needing food, we all drove into the town centre where Big
Jake got us all lunch. An all-day breakfast went down rather well. We then
drove the most recent fruit of my loins (and her entourage) out to Wye
where they were visiting her in-laws.
We came home via the garden centre. Having filled three of
the pond’s floating baskets with water cress, only one of them worked, so we
got plants for the other two. I’m quite pleased with he pond this year. In the
past it has always been a thick green soup over the summer, but this year it is
nowhere near as green. I read that (whether I like it or not) a pond is
going to have a lot of plant growth in it, and that plant growth can either be
plants that I put in there, or floating algae. I’ve put quite a lot of plants
into the splash pool and into floating baskets, and there’s a lot less algae
this year.
With the new plants in place I hung out washing, strimmed
the lawn edges, mowed the lawn, cleaned out the pond filter, hung out more
washing, and then had a little sit-down.
Having had a rather big lunch we weren’t especially hungry
this evening, so we scoffed nachos and dips as we watched two episodes of “Lego
Masters: New Zealand”. It was rather good – and I pity the judge who has an
incredibly difficult job. Mind you I can’t say I’ve agreed with hm very much,
but he’s the judge, not me.
Today has been rather tiring…
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