Quite a stormy day after the wind and rain had increased overnight. After struggling with Sam’s training, I gave the GSP Club training day a miss.
I took the family to Waresley Garden Centre to get the Christmas Tree as I struggle with keeping Wiggly happy.
The wind and rain had increased overnight and it was quite stormy when I woke up this morning. The curtains were bellowing out but at least the temperature was still mild as this month carried on where last month left off.
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It was after 8.00am before I woke up and then later still that I had breakfast and ventured out with my trusty canine friend. I just walk and run him these days, concentrating on his obedience and hardly doing any retrieving or hunting at all.
With him being hard on dummies and game on the one hand and running too far forward and strongly on the other, I think that I have brought him on as far as I can be bothered to for now and feel that he will never make a field trial champion.
I decided to give the GSP Club training day a miss as I was away from home so long yesterday. I was also tired today after my exertions but managed to clear out the Discovery and take Diana and the girls over to Waresley Garden Centre to select our Christmas Tree.
The weather abated just long enough for us to find one and load it up and we also bought some more decorations to add to those stored from previous years to decorate it next week.
The tree (though a "Nordman") cost over £35 which seems a lot considering that I am selling some 2000 off of my estate for just £3 each! Diana roasted a nice chicken for lunch and then I relaxed in the lounge for most of the rest of the day, watching some poor TV football and eating the buffet tea that followed on.
This evening working on my computer and updating these last few days' journal notes and archiving those for last month. The call to Wiggly later which I was dreading making as I had no idea when I could arrange to see her again and was afraid that the conversation was going to be flat after our difference last night.
She seemed fine at first but I think that I depressed her by the end of it as she asked what was wrong and it was difficult talking on the telephone when we could have sorted things out much better in person.
Sometimes I think that these calls do more harm than good and that a relationship gets to the point where you need to see one-another all the time and is under pressure when you cannot.
I also see that Sam is missing his training and even then the time I can spend with Louise is not enough for her. Feeling a bit depressed, I telephoned my friends Nigel and Jimmy later and felt better afterwards.