Wednesday the kids managed to leave without inflicting harm on each other and causing my blood pressure to rise. Yesterdays "Dallas Shower Scene" was good to write and now its done and finished with and normal service has resumed. Amazing how you find you can share your family skeletons with people you don't really know sometimes! At least you know why I am such a headcase now LOL Todays photographic intermissions come from Mole Hall Wildlife Park and are just all creatures, great & small. This was my children's favourite place to go for their birthdays....but they are too old for that now, mores the pity!
The sun was shining, so I hung the laundry out and cleared the poop trail....when do puppies stop doing 25 craps a day??? He's 6months old now........soon I hope! Put food on the bird table and crumbled some bread into the pond for the sticklebacks. Came in and had a cup of tea and same Jammie Dodgers for breakfast....ok not the best start to the day but it tasted pretty good to me! I even managed NOT to drop a biscuit in my cup......quite an achievement these days!
On Monday I started watching the 'afternoon drama on Channel 5' it was called And Never Let Her Go, based on a true story. Mark Harmon (from NCIS swoon) was in it as was Lily from Cold Case, it got me hooked but was a two part (very long film) and as I knew I'd be busy Tuesday afternoon cooking and going to karate I recorded the second part and watched it yesterday. Mark Harmon played a very good bad guy, the "real life" Tony Capano is still on death row since 1999 awaiting his appeal to be executed by lethal injection. So that was a couple of hours on the sofa with the throw and my two boys curled up around me.
Looked out of the window and great......it was persisting down.....sod it the washing can stay out. Got another load out of the machine and hung this on the airers and radiators......mmmmm smell the fabric softeners! Tackled the washing up and popped the half leg of New Zealand Lamb into roast. Really bad but I cooked the taters, parnsnips & butternut squash together in goosefat......oh lovely! We had chantaney carrots, brussel sprouts and broccoli and I actually skipped on the Yorkshire puds (and no one even mentioned it at dinner).
this is for Jazzcat, the little fella was just wandering around the carpark!
After dinner I did a bit more unpaid secretarial work for Tony, the club is about to advertise in a small local magazine...in fact they did a two page spread a couple of years back on my boys (Jack is also on youtube competing in Sweden when he was 11 - a Danish guy had made a montage of competitors and there is my son, albeit for a few seconds LOL). So that done we settle down to watch Waterloo Road.....please tell me that schools like don't exist 
I thought my kids school was bad enough when they come home and say "someone turned up stoned today", "a girl was drunk in school"......scares me I tell you!
So after Waterloo Road, Sean and I watch NCIS:LA him for the guns and stuff and me for Chris O'Donnell LOL That takes us up to 10pm and everyone starts getting for bed. As I bend down to take my pumps off, Ollie walks underneath me and our skulls meet rather abruptly, unfortunately we managed to connect right where one of my titanian bolts are in my forehead - OMG the pain, I admit, I swore and I cried. Nice big red patch on my head and a lovely headache to finish the day! Sods Law strikes again.
this poor old fella was a rescue chimp, just living his days out and as you can see, likes to poke his tongue out at people as they pass by.
We have to go up at least 30mins before we'd like to even think about sleeping as Ollie has a weird ritual he goes through. He is a very alert dog and every shadow, dance of light etc makes him get up and try to get it. We have white wooden blinds in our bedroom that we don't fully close - till now - but as the lights of the cars shine through a bit as they go up and down our road.....it drives Ollie bonkers - I am wondering if he's not just a little bit mental! Then he dives under the covers with just his tail poking out between Tony and I, stays for like 3 or 4 minutes and then comes out and goes to the bottom of the bed and curls up!
It would seem that even our pets are doomed not to be normal!
Thought for today:
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
