Family Affairs and other matters

The following day, I went from this:-

To this:-

However. I didn’t go to Scotland for the weather. I spent a lovely few days with my gorgeous friends, enjoying their warm hospitality and wrapping myself up in the bosom of their family. More of that later….

I’ve had a ridiculously busy sorty outy time since I’ve been back, really trying to get through some of those packing boxes that I haven’t felt strong enough to deal with so far and enjoying the peace and quiet of my house.

I had to pick up a friend’s dog from the kennels today as she is not back till tonight. I know nothing about dogs. It was all a bit daunting. He does know me a bit but he was ridiculously excited to see me which was very sweet. I took him for a walk in our local park but didn’t dare take him off his lead in case I lost him. I had quite forgotten that dogs do things like poo and was completely unprepared for the occasion. I rifled around in my handbag looking for an imaginary poo bag. There were quite a few people around. It’s not OK to leave dog poo but I had absolutely nothing to pick it up with. So I got my sunglasses case out of my bag and pretended that I had some natty device in which to pick it up and then walked over to the dog bin and pretended to shake the imaginary poo into the bin and strolled off. HOW ridiculous. You will be pleased to know that I then did the proper thing and went back later with a bag to pick it up. The problem was that by then that I had no dog. So, I looked like a mad woman in the park just picking up random dog poo for no apparent reason.