Dolly for President

Sunday October 19, 2008

I slept through until 08:30 this morning, with just a short hip relief break at about 03:30.  Graham was up and about, working, at 06:30.

Then, somewhere around 10:30, his limit was reached and he was obliged to collapse for a well-earned rest, sleeping like a little snoring log until 13:30 and waking ravenously hungry for his lunch.

The trouble was, we’d scheduled soup and bread for today’s lunch and he needed more.  Much more.  My cupboard and freezer are not stocked yet so a bit of rapid thinking was called for.

“How’s about we pop down to Burger King for a double whopper with double everything?” I asked.

His little eyes lighted up.  ”You know what?  I could really fancy that.”

So that is what we did.  I had exactly the same, of course, but then I did have to keep him company, didn’t I?

The day hasn’t been so very productive, then, though new bookshelves have been installed in my study and are being populated with stuff as I write.  My study hi-fi is up and running, and sounding sweet as syrup.

I did get out into the street for a camera session in spite of the damp, dull, grey light, typical of a Welsh Sunday afternoon.  One photograph, of the house, is worth keeping:

 

Our split-level villa in the valley

 Needless to say, Dolly the Mega-cat is getting a great deal of attention from both of us, never being passed without a gentle enquiry.  She’s fine.  She’s had a couple of mad sessions as one or another of her scratty old cat-nip mice appeared from in or under cardboard boxes, but most of the time she’s spent contentedly sleeping, tucked deep into the cushions on my armchair.  This house drops temperature over-night, so she snuggles up on the bed when all goes quiet.  All in all she displays the calm, sensible fortitude needed to govern her household through the disturbances.

“I wonder if the Americans might not like her for their next president?” I said.

“They can’t have her.”

“No, of course not.  Seems a shame not to offer them the chance, though.  I’ll take a poll, on a strictly non-partisan and unscientific basis of course:”