Dog heads ball

I had a lovely time with Nicktor last night, as usual. He introduced me to the pleasures of grain whisky, something I’ve never tried. Like good vodka, it needs to be served from the freezer. As soon as he arrived it went in. There were two decent measures worth of whisky in the bottle – he’d been saving it for us.

After the usual very few hours sleep (for some insane reason we watched three movies instead of two) Nicktor headed off to work and I readied myself for my monthly date at the Talking Newspaper. It was a good team. John, the vicar with the great voice, his wife June, Sue the engineer and a presenter whose name I’ve forgotten. We finished in record time! An hour early.

Nothing very interesting in the stories though – there’s only so much feeling you can give to a council report on waste collection problems. I had one rather odd story about a knitting fair held last month but otherwise, it was all a bit dull.

When I arrived home, the puppies went crazy so I hitched them straight up and we set off for the park. We had a short detour to the vet to pick up a repeat prescription for Day-z. The pills for her incontinence are FANTASTIC. There is no way we want to run out.

For todays walk we decided to go up the Oak Wood as we’ve not been up there for ages. I call it the Oak Wood – I don’t think it actually has a name – because it has three big old oaks and many smaller ones which the park management is letting grow. I was surprised how muddy it still was given we haven’t had rain since February and everywhere else is pretty much dried up.

We saw a performing German Shepherd. In a field ahead of us, a man was throwing a football sized beach ball into the air and his dog was heading it back to him. This went on for ages. The man throwing the ball, the dog rising to its hind legs and heading it back. It was pretty amazing! Eventually, the guy kicked the ball and the dog went running after it in a normal doggy fashion.

And, effectively, that was my day. I feel a tad washed out but the cold has nearly gone.

Oh, almost forgot. I put some old photos up on the website. You can see them here.