Morning All!

[FredPuli43]

Bit early this morning. Still windy and warm outside; it must be the intense heat that's got me up! Got a gardener coming at 10 am,to "see what needs to be done" (his words). Should be fine if he brings a plough to level what passes for a lawn but currently resembles a battlefield of the Great War and a chainsaw to cut down the..er... weeds (sycamores, mostly) . What's the current rate for a gardener in the South East and East Anglia? I think my late mother paid about two quid a week plus an extra bowl of gruel at Christmas, but that was the last time the place saw a gardener. I just hired blokes with heavy machinery when I moved in, so I could find the house. I knew it was in there somewhere; it was on the Ordnance Survey map.

Ah well. Have a happy day all !

[lady-janine]

hi minty good to see you.

hi Dee that really is good news long may progress continue.

bye welshy. take care. x

morning DT. don't know when it was last dry. so much wet but at least we are dry.

[emmie]

no indeed, still up and at em as they say, or some do...

[murraymints]

Hi lj...x

[waterboatman]

That's the way of it em :o}

[DTCwordfan]

morning lady j - agree with you there, the garden and the drive is like a swamp here....

Dee good news and fingers crossed, fingers crossed for minty....

[DTCwordfan]

lol wbm and save us a slice next time! Local caff does really good soda bread.

[waterboatman]

Will do DT. Can't beat it can you! I need a new loaf, I think I just might make a soda bread! :o}

[murraymints]

Ta DT...x

[waterboatman]

Time to go and find something to avoid doing.

Have a happy day everyone.

[lady-janine]

bye boaty have a good day. xx

[murraymints]

Bye boaty.x

[DTCwordfan]

bye boaty, I have to be stirring the pegs too in a couple of minutes......

[lady-janine]

goodness. look at the time. time for me to go and find something not to do. so bye all of you. take care. xx

[murraymints]

Me too ..must get on..see y`all later..x

[FredPuli43]

Update from OP. The gardener, expected at 10, turned up 40 minutes early, ignored or didn't notice the sign on the gate about dogs running free, opened the gate and three wolfhounds appeared and then disappeared down the village. It took the combined efforts of various residents, the head of the village school and a passing police patrol, and an hour, to track them down. One, a pup, was a mile away, but the two others were about two and half miles off. Fortunately, they'd come on to lanes and they could be spotted from a car,though doubtless they'd been across country in the meantime.

Ah, the joys of dogs and the countryside!

[abstibus]

Fred
IWs can certainly leg it, when they can be bothered, that is. They're great at slouching, but show them an open field, and ...
Thank goodness none of them was injured.
Here, the flippin' dog warden can suss out a dog at 500 metres, but he would have had fun trying to fit three IWs in his van.