I spent much of the night listening for sounds of
littlun, but I didn’t hear a thing from her. What little sleep I did have was
rather restless. I woke in a cold sweat shortly after midnight following a
nightmare in which littlun had decided that she wanted to play “Squid Game”.
As she’s only three we played a non-lethal version in which every time she
stuffed up, grandad got an electric shock. And after waking up at half past
five following another nightmare in which the theme tune to her favourite You-Tube video had been re-written to
“It’s Steve and Maggie – squawking like a bast”, and somehow I’d got the
blame.
I gave up trying to sleep and made toast. As I peered
into the Internet I saw two friends had birthdays today. One was a colleague
who was forty today. Forty? I would have guessed late twenties. And another was
a chap with whom I went to school so I know how old he is… even though he has
always seemed about twenty years older than me.
I munzed and wordled, and then woke the girls and the
dogs.
It took a little longer than usual to get ready this
morning, Darcie doesn’t go as quick as she might, but we were soon all on our
way to Repton. Dog Club was rather busy this morning; loads of dogs; loads of
mayhem. Littlun loved it and spent quite a bit of time playing ball with Roo (one
of the larger dogs). Roo loved it; as did littlun. It was only a shame that
some of the bigger dogs crashed into me during their chase game which rather
put my back out.
We came home via the bakery down the road. We usually
have a bun with our coffee on a Saturday morning but we’d forgotten to get any
today. So I popped into the local bakery. This place is usually a
disappointment, but I thought we might give it another chance, and sadly it
will be a while before we go back.
It is places like this that give me absolutely no
confidence in on-line reviews. Scoring very well on TripAdvisor
the reviews seem to be describing a different place. The cream slices we had
today were stale with rather foul chemicals in place of cream, and were exactly
what we’ve had before from there, but people on-line can’t speak highly enough
about them. I’m reminded of an author friend of mine who has been given five-star
reviews for some of his books by people who openly admit they’ve not read them.
With yukky buns scoffed littlun ran riot. The dogs all
sat with me, and I fell asleep in front of “Toobs” (as littlun called
You-Tube). I was fast asleep for over an hour. I woke in time to say
goodbye to “er
indoors TM” and “Darcie WaaWaa TM” who
were off to a lambing event at the school farm in Tenterden.
I tried to do a little tidying-up but my back wasn’t
having any of it, so I sat on my bum and watched more “Squid
Game 2” on Netflix. I could remember the first season being
a tad slow to get going; the second season has effectively wasted the first two
episodes, but it eventually perked up.
The girls returned and wreaked havoc before littlun
was returned to her home. I watched more “Squid Game 2” then fell asleep
again.
It wasn’t long before “er indoors TM” returned,
and hot on her heels came Chris, Sarah and Steve. We had a rather good evening
on the infinity table. A game of “Game of Life”, a game of “Sorry”,
a game of “Ticket to Ride”… a rather good evening.
Today’s step count has come in at about ten thousand steps
less than the average for the last week…
My back hurt when I got up this morning and it has been
giving me gyp all day.
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