Monday 3rd December

Monday 3^rd December

(A happy birthday to my mum, who is no longer with us, bless you mum).

I text son JL at 7.15am this morning partly to wish him ‘happy birthday’ but also to make sure he was standing in the queue at Gatwick airport! All seemed OK and he was……so when we had a text an hour later to say actually he had ‘discovered’ he was booked on flights that don’t exist!!!!! But don’t worry at no extra cost (!) he was booked on another flight that actually only had one stop rather than two……….We’ll wait and see later tonight when he has promised to text us again (if he has reached his destination). As for his return flights, who knows!!

A lovely friendly electrician turned up this morning to sort out our wiring/plugs/sockets/switches and lights (there is a lot to do!) and somehow we got chatting about house/car security. He regaled an event in Jersey concerning his wife who had just bought a brand new car. It’s one that you don’t need a key, just the fob and push button start. Anyway she parked up to nip into a shop for a loaf of bread and probably forgot to push the button to lock it. Four minutes later she returned to find a man sitting in her car helping himself to stuff! Well, at this point had it been me I would have probably done some ‘girlie’ screaming and panicked, but not her…………She simultaneously yelled, dragged him out of the car  by the scruff of the neck…… and ‘decked him’!!!

Popped into school today and grabbed a few big hugs from work colleagues- fantastic! Then took Jessie onto the beach where I came across SC and friend, as well as TF/LF. All of us walking dogs, Jessie took a shine to Baxter, and they chased each other crazily for half an hour. Jessie won on speed and agility, Baxter wasted his energy on barking!!!

Badminton this evening, won some lost some, but all good games. 

“I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.” 

 Joe Garagiola)