Nobody Votes For Us Again

We have a dog show today purely because the club are fund raising for a wall. Yes, it’s not just Trump who wants a wall. This though will be somewhat smaller than his 2,000 mile long pipe dream.

L is worried it might be too hot for the boys if I’m working all day but it’s not too bad, it’s practically snowing in fact. Not that L believes me.

MD and I have five largely unsuccessful runs between helping on the ring. They are not bad runs but nothing sensational. I ask L how her parkrun was? Not bad but nothing sensational apparently. The Lad however has a sensational day. He barks at everything, bites through another halti and then falls asleep in his box ready to come home.

In the evening, it’s Eurovision where nobody votes for us again. Yet there doesn’t appear to be much wrong with our song, just our country. 

(Saturday 12^th May)

First Christmas Tree

One of the Nottingham’s pubs has been the first to put a Christmas Tree up on its roof. I won’t say which pub because I’m sure they’ve only done it for the publicity. Sadly, the local paper has fallen for it and printed a picture of it. Now of course, someone will try and trump then with an even earlier one next year.

I get the bus into work with the aim of running after work. Which I do but throughout my ankle doesn’t feel right, like the bones are grinding together. This isn’t unusual and has been an on-off condition since I spent years trashing my ankle on astroturf whilst playing football.

I can usually run it off but tonight it just gets worse. I was about to hop on a bus after a few miles but just missed it. With half an hour to the next one I pushed on and probably shouldn’t have done. By the time I get home its swelling up nicely.

Before things had got too critical I had stopped off in Derby’s new bike shop Cyclo Monster which is mainly a cyclocross place but does have road bikes as well. L seems open to the suggestion of a proper road bike with ‘curly’ handlebars, well it was her second choice after a trike, so I thought I’d see if they’d got any girlie specific ones. They have, the Scott Contessa, but it’s a bit pricey. I tell them we’ll think on it.

(Wednesday 18^th September)