Crikey! It was fair chucking it down this morning, wasn’t it? I listened to the rain and hunkered down a bit more in bed. I didn’t fancy an early morning walk in that. Clearly, neither did Chester because he didn’t woof at all.
When I finally came downstairs, I decided the rain was still too heavy to venture out into, so I opened the door to let Chester pootle round the garden instead. Not before he’d had chance to start hoovering up some of the biscuits that were left over from the cats’ supper last night, though. I am not sure if it was those that upset his tummy, but he was looking very hang-dog and not at all himself so, after I’d let him back in, I had to let him back out again – whereupon he decorated my lawn with regurgitated grass. Lovely.
I left John in bed. He was tired and needed more sleep. I ate my breakfast and took him a coffee. The rain eased a bit. Chester sat looking at me with pleading eyes. Oh, alright then! We’ll take a tour round the yellow brick road and Lavender Hall Park.
It was a splishy, splashy walk. A bit muddy, too, on the bit of field we braved. And an hilarious one if you were the driver of the car speeding through a large puddle just as we were passing by. You should have seen the delight on his face as he scored high points for emptying the whole of the puddle over an unsuspecting pedestrian.
Once home, I heard the buzz of the shower pump and knew that John was getting up. Bless him, it was hard work, but he looked very smart afterwards. He’d chosen to put some decent clothes on instead of work -clothes, so he looked quite dapper.
“I’m going to have some poached egg on toast for lunch,” I said, “Would you like some for your breakfast?” He smiled. “Gosh, is that the time?” Yep – lunchtime.
My phoned pinged. It was Harriet. Could I look after Freddie for a couple of hours while she went to hockey? I thought about it for all of a nano-second and decided that in the risk versus need/pleasure contest it was a no-brainer, so I said yes. And that’s how Freddie came to stay…. what an unexpected treat. Haven’t had quite such fun in a while. He is a delight – and, of course, as he gets older, more and more interesting.
Paul was out with friends celebrating two fortieth birthdays, hence the baby-sitting requirement. Naturally, it’s the year for fortieth birthdays, all being mates from the same academic year. But it’s a bit of a whammy. Peacock and Sanjay? Crumbs. Who next? We’re in amongst the grown-ups, aren’t we?
I am not sure what other, outside news there may be today – we haven’t kept up to date with it, being busy. I do, however, have the virus figures for you – just because……
People with positive tests today just 2,047; the people who died in the community just 5; and the people who died in hospitals number 5 on 6 & 7 May.
Enjo the rest of your weekend everyone – despite the rain. God bless.
Must have been like old times having Freddie round! How lovely x
Funny how we were talking about Chester eating grass …… 🙈
It were lovely!