Wednesday 2nd January

Wednesday 2^nd January

Now you may think that dog walks can be very boring…. And some of them maybe, but not the ones I go on.

 I started off from White Rock and had not been walking long when I bumped into a Trinity neighbour and passed the time of day. Continuing on my way I met a chap with his dog on a lead, and I bid him Happy New Year…….. but he didn’t look very happy. It transpired that he had lost his mobile phone somewhere along the path yesterday and was repeatedly walking up and down looking for it. I said I would keep a look out as I walked, and he thanked me. Despite my best efforts to locate the phone I was unsuccessful, but I still searched and on the return journey I met another gentleman holding a pair of binoculars. I thought he was an ornithologist (good guess?), but no apparently he was looking at ‘pots’, but the tide wasn’t quite high enough (!). I nodded sagely at him, as if I knew what he was talking about and carried on, shortly afterwards meeting the ‘phone’ man again who looked up expectantly and then very crestfallen when I said I hadn’t found it.

I came back home and asked the ‘experts’ what the man with the pots was talking about , and they said he was probably a fisherman, and with the strong winds and bad weather his ‘markers’ could have been blown anywhere, so it saves him time if he can locate them. Makes perfect sense of course!

This afternoon my daughter told me I looked like some kind of deranged cartoon ‘mad woman’ character as I attempted to take the dog and the cat to the vet simultaneously. As I struggled out of the car with the extremely excited dog the lead wrapped round my legs twice, and the cat swinging around in its box meowing pitifully I could see why she thought that!

  This evening a lovely friend Pdlh dropped by with a chocolate Yule log she had made earlier, and as we were seven around the supper table it was much appreciated!!

Played nearly two hours of badminton tonight, hence the late blog!

A man joined a big Multi National Company as a trainee.
On his first day, he dialed the kitchen and shouted into the phone: "Get me a cup of coffee, quickly!"
The voice from the other side responded: "You fool; you've dialled the wrong extension! Do you know who you're talking to?"
"No" replied the trainee.
"It's the Managing Director of the company, you idiot"
The trainee shouted back: "And do you know who you are talking to, you idiot?"
"No!" replied the Managing Director angrily.

"Thank God!" replied the trainee and kept the phone down.