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Swans on the bay

Haven’t done much lately. Ang went to her Aunt’s a couple of times in the last two weeks, once with her sister. Yesterday I didn’t get up til 8.50 so we were late doing everything. Went down the backwaters about 9.30 and Ang had a go at me because I went via the shops. When we got back she apologised and said she hadn’t slept well last night. We went out for their second walk about 12.30 and went behind the factories where it’s flooded still so the dogs could play in the water. On the way back we counted 52 swans on Lychett Bay. We got back about 1.45 and I crashed out for an hour. At 3.20 we took the dogs to the boat beach for their last walk. Buster made friends with a little Jack Russell that was there with 3 lads by their boat. The tide was out quite a way though so we didn’t stop long. Today was really foggy when went out for first walk about 9. Buster met a spaniel but didn’t want to play.

Normal weather

Ang woke me at 4ish Monday morning. I got up at about 5.30 as couldn’t get back to sleep. Watched a bit of business news and then normal BBC 1. Read a bit of BBC forum. Tuesday evening Ang fell over in the kitchen. I heard a crash and found her sprawled out by the cooker with a small gash over her eye. She said she went dizzy and didn’t want to go to hospital. I got her back into the lounge and clean the cut up. The bleeding stopped after about 10 minutes and her eye had swollen up a little. Today we got up about 8 and managed to get the dogs on 3 walks. On the second one we went to the boat beach. The sea was frozen quite a way into the bay. Dainty still tried to go in but gave up after a while and left a trail of holes in the ice. Sister rang this evening. She forgot to lag pipes in new cattery at one place so now she’s got frozen pipes.

The year begins

Had a quiet new years eve. Went to bed about 10.30 as was tired. Phoned Mum new years day. Jane had fallen asleep so hadn’t phoned Mum either after midnight as we usually do. Had roast chicken thighs for dinner New Year’s Day with roast potatoes, roast parsnips, broccoli and home made Yorkshire pudding. Neither of us really enjoyed it because of the meat. Ang started drinking about 4am today so I’m stuck taking the dogs out on my own. There were over 30 swans down at the backwaters today. On their second walk we met some new dogs one of which was a deaf Scottie. On their third walk there were people playing football on the top field so we had to stay on the bottom two.