ONE EARLY PRESSIE

 

Hello everyone,

I have a cold, not a sniffle or a snuffle but a full-blown sneezing, coughing, watery eyed cold, and let me tell you that I`m glad too!  Sounds daft I know, but I`d rather have it now than at the weekend when I need to be fit as a fiddle and completely germ free.  Hopefully, I`ll be over it, just as Jim is recovering from it, so is Kerry, Roman is coughing and sneezing but seems well in himself and should be over it soon.

                                                            

 

I had an early start today, me and Kerry went to visit a friend and deliver Christmas presents for her children, we stayed chatting for a couple of hours before fighting our way home through heavy traffic, it took twenty minutes to drive the two miles home.  I think perhaps some people have been in hiding and have just realised that Christmas is next week.  Now they decide that they`d better go and spend some money......talk about last minute shopping, the High Street was heaving and not where I would like to be at the moment.

 

Jim has bought me an early pressie.  Lately I`ve been having trouble starting my car, it always starts but it sometimes takes a while.  Our mechanic has looked at it and he thought it was the choke sticking, so I just carried on driving, confident it would always start if I were out somewhere.  Yesterday Jim wanted to use my car to go to Tesco and it wouldn`t start at all this time.  Jim decided to drive his own car and off he went.  When we came home he called out to me that he had brought me a present...Oooh lovely, I`m thinking...chocolates, flowers...no.  " Here you are," says he, holding up a car battery, "for you, this should do it."   Actually, I couldn`t have had a better present because that was the problem all along, a dying battery.  When we thought about it we realised that the car is seven years old and it had never had a new battery.  So there it was, problem solved.  Who says romance is dead...?....lol!

                    

Still nothing much to tell about the "crime house".  There does appear to be someone living there and yesterday I saw a child open the door to a little girl who was probably asking her to come out and play, but she quickly shut the door after I heard someone call out to her.  They are definetely lying low, presumably because they don`t want to be the talk of the neighbourhood, bit late for that I think!  I`m running a bit late today so I`ll say goodbye for now, here`s hoping you`ve all had a lovely day.

 

 

Wrapping Presents with Dogs

1. Gather presents, boxes, paper, etc. in middle of living room floor.

2. Get tape back from puppy.

3. Remove scissors from older dog's mouth.

4. Open box.

5. Take puppy out of box.

6. Remove tape from older dog's mouth.

7. Take scissors away from puppy.

8. Put present in box.

9. Remove present from puppy's mouth.

10. Put back in box after removing puppy from box.

11. Take scissors from older dog and sit on them.

12. Remove puppy from box and put on lid.

13. Take tape away from older dog.

14. Unroll paper.

15. Take puppy OFF box.

16. Cut paper being careful not to cut puppy's foot or nose that is getting in the way as he "helps."

17. Let puppy tear remaining paper.

18. Take puppy off box.

19. Wrap paper around box.

20. Remove puppy from box & take wrapping paper from its mouth.

21. Tell older dog to fetch the tape so he will stop stealing it.

22. Take scissors away from puppy.

23. Take tape older dog is holding.

24. Quickly tape one spot before taking scissors from older dog & sitting on them again.

25. Fend off puppy trying to steal tape & tape another spot.

26. Take bow from older dog.

27. Go get roll ofwrapping paper puppy ran off with.

28. Take scissors from older dog who took them when you got up.

29. Give pen to older dog to hold so he stops licking your face.

30. Remove puppy from present & hurriedly slap tape on to hold the paper on.

31. Take now soggy bow from puppy & tape on since the sticky stuff no longer sticks.

32. Take pen from older dog, address tag & affix while puppy tries to eat pen.

33. Grab present before puppy opens it & put it away.

34. Clean up mess puppy & older dog made playing tug-of-war with remnants of wrapping paper.

35. Put away rest of wrapping supplies & tell dogs what good helpers they are.