BUSY,BUSY,BUSY!

            

Happy Sunday one and all!

  Today has been so busy, but lovely all the same.  The sun shone again and it reached 66 degrees.  We decided to make the most of the day.  We took Jake out this morning to Black Park where he had a grand old time running around and chasing his Flinga-Ringa before we took him to the lake for a swim.  There he met another black lab of the same age and they swam back and forth incessantly, chasing tennis balls and sticks until they were both really tired but still willing to have one more go.

When we got home we had a treat in store for him in the shape of a bath.  What a laugh that was too.  I filled a bucket of warm water and mixed in his shampoo.  Jim held on to his lead and I tipped it over him a bit at a time, soaped him all over then hosed him down. When he was dry he looked a proper treat..... lovely and shiny and he smells like a dream!  I think he rather liked it too...how long he`ll stay like that, with his liking for muddy puddles, I`d give him 48 hours maximum!

We them left him to sleep for the afternoon while we went to a Car Boot Sale a couple of miles away in Maidenhead.  We had a good nose around and I came away with a brand new Tefal frying pan.  They started off at £5 and I decided to come back later, when, I saw the stallholder had marked them down to £4, so I offered him £3 and he accepted.......result!  I can`t resist a bargain and I badly need a needed a new one.

After we left there, Jim suggested going for a drive in the country, so off we went and ended up in Cookham, right next to a particularly pretty part of the River Thames.  We had a much needed cup of coffee and a slice of home-made lemon cake...( yummy) and then walked by the river up to the nearby lock, where we sat and watched the river roll by and ducks and geese just letting themselves be moved along by the current which is quite strong there.  We were there for nearly 2hours and almost lost track of the time, as you do when you are having a nice, relaxing time.  Jim has a week off work next week so we are going to travel to various places along the river with, of course Jake in tow.  Let`s hope the weather stays nice for us.  Jim`s holidays are always at odd times. He was off work today on rest.  Tomorrow he`s fishing with a mate, Tuesday he has to go into work,  and then he`s off for the week, at least I think it`s then..lololol!  I hope you all had a nice weekend so far and enjoy the rest of Sunday. :-)

 

~  The typical driver will honk their car horn 15,250 times during their lifetime.  ~

~  The average British adult will eat 35,000 biscuits in their lifetime.  ~

~  In the USA 9 milligrams of rat droppings are allowed in a kilogram of wheat  ~

~  Every year the average person eats 428 bugs by mistake.  ~

~  The average Briton is 38 yrs old.  ~

~  One in every four Americans has appeared on TV.  ~

~  17,000 individual Smarties are eaten every minutein the UK.  ~

~  Peanuts are one of the main ingredients of dynamite.  ~

~  If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front feet in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of the wounds recieved in battle;  if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.  ~

~  30 per cent of all the non-biodegradable rubbish buried in American landfills is disposible nappies.  ~