A slow start after a late and cold night and then Debbie off to school as I get out with Sam for some waterwork on a milder day before taking Diana and the girls to The Happy Eater as their choice for lunch. There an unfortunately bad service.
Back home this afternoon to see some good Rugby League on the TV with Wigan being soundly beaten for once by Leeds in the Trophy Cup Final. We had a new satellite aerial, tuner and decoder installed this morning and the picture quality was much improved.
I excelled myself last night and stayed up even later than usual and was then too cold to get to sleep easily. This until I switched my electric blanket on to maximum, fell asleep and then found myself waking up so hot that I was like a cat on a hot tin roof! Diana was not best pleased. A shower and then dressed last for breakfast. Debbie off to school and me out with Sam.
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It was mild again and so I got him swimming and wading across ditches to make retrieves. Some time also with him trying to get him to just hold a dummy gently, hoping to cure his mouthing objects on the retrieve. This comes very slowly but I think that I am making some progress. My office still a mess, much of this morning tidying everything away so that I could see the wood for the trees. This done, I had barely started updating this last two days' journal before it was time to take Diana and the girls to The Happy Eater as their choice for lunch.
This was all right but somewhat spoilt by first the waitress getting my order wrong so that I had to wait for the correct dish to come later and then by all three of the waiters being so engrossed in their own conversation that I had virtually to shout and whistle to get attention. The worst of English dourness combined with American brashness is when it is impossible to get a waiter's attention when you need it and then, once you have settled down to your meal being disturbed by a loud and pointed interruption along the lines "Is everything all right?". They should learn the correct balance of being unobtrusive yet keep an eye on their tables and be attentive to your need. back home this afternoon to see some good Rugby League on the TV with Wigan being soundly beaten for once in the Trophy Cup Final.
The evening walk with Sam, concentrating on obedience and heel work and then back to my journal for the evening and some more paperwork whilst the ladies watched more TV. We had a new satellite aerial, tuner and decoder installed this morning and the picture quality was much improved. The main news is still of the former Yugoslavia where at last all the world seems to be coming to the realisation that the effect of outside relief and aid has just been to prolong the conflict as the protagonists do not heed the call for peace and compromise.