A SOGGY DOG SUNDAY

 

Hello everyone,

Welcome to a wet and windy Sunday, it`s pretty chilly too...brrr!  For those of us fools who have to brave the elements with our faithful hounds it is not a great day. Walking for just over half and hour made for a rather damp me and an extremely soggy Jake, who shook himself all over the kitchen and I spent ages clearing up the mess.  I wish I could shake myself down the way a dog will...I did try once but only succeeded in hurting my neck in the process.  I suppose having four legs and a long spine have something to do with it....plus the fact that they`re unable to use a towel....lol!

I spent the morning ironing as I usually do on a Sunday.  The new ironing board certainly makes life easier with the extra width and I`m usually finished far sooner than before.  The only drawback being that it`s almost as tall as me and quite heavy to carry around, thankfully I keep it in the boiler cupboard across the hallway from where I do the ironing, any further and I`d have to call on Jim to carry the thing. After my complaining about the rubbish collections or rather, the lack of them, we have now had two collections in just over a week, unbelievable.  Of course nobody was aware of this yesterday and most of the rubbish hadn`t been left for them. Luckily I saw them coming down the road as I was about to go out yesterday.

I didn`t suffer any after affects of my experimental omelette yesterday, in fact I was pleasantly surprised with the result and plan to use the same ingredients another time. It was very filling but very healthy and I`m sure I`m beginning to lose weight already.  In a fortnight when I weigh myself again I`ll let you know whether I`ve lost anything.  At the moment I weigh 9st. 5lbs/131 lbs, and I need to lose 10lbs to feel comfortable again.  I know I`m not really overweight but I`m heading that way so I have to reverse the trend and get me back to 8st. 9lbs.  Though I will stress, it`s not a reducing diet as such.  I`m just eating healthier meals and cutting out junk food and snacks.

Jim is still finding different features on the TV,  it does so much more than the old one.  Theonly problem is that we still have to use our Freeview set-top box because we have top-up TV.  The card which fits in the old Freeview box can`t be used with the TV set.  Oh well, not to worry, we have an excellent picture and the sound is fantastic.  We already have a DVD theatre system so we now have the package in ho,e entertainment.  Let`s just hope we don`t have don`t have anything else go wrong with anything electric, though my vaccuum cleaner has seen better days..fingers crossed it`ll make it through the next six months at least.

Well, that`s it from me for today. I hope the sun is shining where you are, have a lovely afternoon and take care.  Bye Bye for now.

 

 

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