Saturday 13th. April

The beloved dog is the most spoken about person in the house this evening....what has she been eating? For the last hour or so she has stunk the kitchen out, to the extent that some of us have had to move places, some of us have moved rooms and some of us have actually gone out. These bouts of canine flatulence are not all that regular...but boy does she make up for it when she decides to have an evening of "venting off"......as you can tell, she's very much recovering from her little op.

Dad had a repeat of yesterday....he got up early and went back to bed soon after. A change of drugs has helped a little, and he felt capable of going down to Georgetown to listen to AA's choir this afternoon. He had been planning to go to the rugby all week, but we all agreed that it was probably not the best idea to stand around in the rain all afternoon.

Bex was up with the lark and used her new computer to make a good start on a project she has to complete for College, before going off to Waitrose at lunchtime for her 8 hour stint. Tom has been watching sport and is out this evening at a meal somewhere, and Dan has had a day at home hoping that the weather is going to improve tomorrow so he can go out on the lifeboat in the morning and do another charter to the Minquiers in the afternoon.

Mum spent the first half of the day doing various sports and food shopping....she went with dad this afternoon, and this evening she is at that badminton meal that we mentioned yesterday.

That just leaves Jack...who was up all night dealing with a fire out west. It turned out that, not only did he attend, but he was the first into the burning building wearing breathing apparatus. He left the station before midnight (just after they had turned in) and only got back around 5. He went back to bed after returning home.....but has the night off this evening so he can attend a friends 30th. No work for him tomorrow of any description we suspect.

Let's hope that the sport goes well tomorrow....and we hope the Grand Prix will be more exciting than the really boring qualifying. Also we hope (for our sake) that Chelsea win tomorrow afternoon, and finally we hope that a Brit can win the Masters.....by the time we get to write tomorrow's blog we should at least know if any of them have chance.