A RESTFUL DAY

Hello everyone...it`s friday at last.  Not that it really makes much difference to me as I`m not working, but I thought I`d say it anyway!

Yesterday,  a couple of things happened that I forgot to mention....my memory is getting terrible!....  Firstly when I got up yesterday morning and opened the back door to let Jake out I saw the oddest thing.  The bird table, which has a very sturdy base, was lying flat on the ground!  I can`t think how it might have happened, Jim suggested a large bird, but the largest we get is a crow, a magpie or a wood pigeon.  I think it would need something the size of a vulture to knock it over like that, and we don`t see many of them around here..lolol!   I can only think that as a couple of cats come and sit in the bushes at the back of the garden, one of them might have fancied his chances of a birdie breakfast. jumped at the table and got a bit of a shock!

Just after that incident, Jim took Jake out early before the sun got too hot.  When he got home he didn`t look very happy.....Jim that is!.....and proceeded to tell me that Jake had knocked him over in the back field.  Apparently Jake.....who always runs with all the speed of an express train without brakes........came charging through the undergrowth directly at Jim , he side-stepped to make way for him , but to no avail ,as Jake had his path mapped out for him and there was no stopping him now and that`s when it happened...CRASH...  Jim went down and Jake carried on running until he must have realised that he couldn`t see Jim and hurried back. He then...I have it on good authority.....ran to Jim and started to lick him to see if he was ok..well of course he was, but he was very cross with Jake.  I`ve told Jim that I just drop to the ground before he gets to me, a little odd I know but somehow the thought of a broken leg doesn`t hold much appeal.....Jim was not impressed!...

Today has been a quiet gentle sort of day.  We went shopping in the town and had a coffee in Marks.  We later went into an Index store that will soon be closing down and Jim bought me silver crucifix that I said I liked.  It`s really lovely and I didn`t expect to to buy it for me, as I was going to treat myself.  I just love it when he does things like that for me...he is really good to me and it makes me feel really humble...bless him!

I`m having a lazy afternoon just messing about online, reading journals while the washing machine rumbles away in the background. I plan to do nothing else for the rest of the afternoon apart from take Jake for a walk when I finish this entry.  So, to all of you out  there, enjoy the rest of your friday and have a smashing weekend !

 

~  The world`s largest recorded gathering of people was at a Hindu religious festival in India in 1989. It was attended by about 15 million people.  ~

~  The longest swim was 2938 km down the Mississippi River in 1930. The swimmer spent 742 hours in the water.  ~

~  It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Try it!.  ~

~  The longest jail sentence ever passed was in the US - 10,000 years for a triple murder.  ~

~  Blue whale babies weigh up to 7 tonnes at birth.  ~

~  A female cod can lay up to 9 million eggs.  ~

~  Vultures sometimes eat so much they can`t take off again.  ~

~  Stegodaurus was one of the most famous of the dinosaurs and was an impressive 9 metres long.  But its brain was the size of a walnut.  ~

~  The sleepiest mammals are armadillos, sloths and appossums.  They spend 80 per cent of their lives sleeping or dozing.  ~