
Squirrel Tree from behind.
I fear that Sally is getting worse. This afternoon she reacted to the girls as if she’d never seen them before…just like she did last week. We met her as she was returning from a walk with Milly. Then, when we finished our walk (about an hour) we met her going out again. She may have forgotten that she’d already been. Then Mirinda said she saw her and Milly on a walk when she (Mirinda) walked to the station at 8:30. That’s quite a lot of walks.
I guess I’ll just do the neighbourly thing and keep an eye on her. There’s not a lot else I can do. I have been instructed to tell her which house in our street has the spare key to hers for when she forgets…which she does. Poor Sally.
Anyway, there were no memory lapses for me today. Gardener Dave turned up bright and early, as usual but somewhat flustered. The thing is, Gardener Dave is generally quite chilled so seeing him a bit stressed was unexpected. When queried he explained that one of the gardeners had called in unexpectedly sick and now three of them had had the work of four divided up between them.
So Gardener Dave was accompanied by the Schumanian and the new young guy (I think his name is Andy). Even though stressed, they managed to get the fence fixed within the allotted time though they didn’t hang around to do anything else as they usually do. They were quickly off to the next job.
The fence needed fixing because of the big winds we had a few weeks back. The centre post had started to go. Dave (and crew) stuck a couple of stakes in from the back in order to give the fence some stability. Eventually the fence will need to be replaced but in the meantime, this will do.
Most of my truly exciting day was spent filling and emptying the washing machine but there was a glorious bit in the middle somewhere when we all went to the park.
The weather, I should explain, has turned very cold with icy blasts from the north causing temperatures to plummet this week, making it the coldest of the winter so far. In fact, I heard on Radio 4 this evening that Moscow had a record fall of snow on Sunday, the biggest in 60 years, and it’s caused major chaos. Given Moscow regularly has snow, it has to be something quite extreme to cause chaos!
Anyway, nothing quite like the Russian capital here in Farnham. Though the clouds looked a bit snow laden.
Apart from the temperature, the only hint of Arctic conditions was the light fall of frozen rain as we headed home. It was a good job I’d decided to wear my jacket – normally I’d only wear a fleece – and wear my leather hat.
Of course the girls didn’t care. I often wonder about people who put coats on their dogs. Unless it’s in order to avoid an FSI like we used to do with the poodles. Emma and Freya just run around a lot. They don’t have time to feel the cold.
I did manage a bit more work on the Surrey in the Great War stuff I’ve been doing at the History Centre but otherwise it was all housework.
A very handsome photo of my son thankyou. Poor Sally hope she doesn’t get lost maybe her dog brings her home I take it she has one. Was that the two dogs over by the seat can just make out Freya. love mum xxxx
The girls took me to a place called Amici Italian and i had Gnocchi Bolognese very nice but very filling Vicki put a picture on here to show you but don’t know how to send it to you thats why I am writting to you on your blog tell Mirinda I got her tex and I see him every day. love mum xxxx
Vicki sent you a picture of what I had on messager i didnt know how to put it on here so can you go on to my face book and you will see it love mum xxxx