Total number of joiners seen today: None
Total number of plumbers: One (twice)
Total time on site: 30mins
Achieved? The lengthening of one pipe through foundations.
Patience quotient: What is patience?
Total number of joiners seen today: 1
Time on site: 1hr 40mins
Mode of Transport: 1 (very) small white van
Problem: 1 outlet pipe in the way of floor joist
Awaiting: A plumber
So no real jubilation after all.
We are promised that the joiners are appearing tomorrow.
Watch this space for jubilation if it comes to pass.
It has been a busy weekend and Misty has learnt two new commands, both in response to treats. The first was sheer fancy on my part: Paw…… but she gets a bit overenthusiastic and tries to give two paws at times. The second was Hush……this a necessity because of two evenings of fireworks in our near locality. It took half a packet of puppy mini-bones to learn the latter and she will no doubt have forgotten it before next year. Mind you, it could be a useful command at other times too. The only trouble is that she is so intelligent that she will work out that barking is a cue for the Hush Command and the subsequent treat.
Ah well, she has already sussed that with the C’mon, c’mon, c’mon……..
PS The C’mon commands have to be given in a high-pitched soprano, so Him Behind the Wheel nearly does himself a mischief trying to copy.
Benjamin Franklin joined with others when he said,
Things which hurt, instruct.
My answer to that is,
Only when we are so inclined……
Today, November 5th was my mother’s birthday. Her life, her pain, the pain she sometimes caused, her joys, her hopes, her sad death……..for all these things I remember my mother. RIP Helen
Saw a bevvy of bullfinches on the Glenstrae walk. Beautiful against the low autumn sunshine. Lifts the heart.
Yesterday, being the 1st November, it was apt that the temperature dropped to minus 5C overnight and had a frosty start. In fact, I was thinking it was just like winter whilst driving home in the afternoon along with gritting lorries and a nearly full moon. Then, I saw the lit-up windows of a hotel not far from here……Christmas decorations everywhere. What next?
The first Christmas commercial I had seen on TV – complete with reindeers and fake snow. Better get used to it I suppose.
I am delighted with the news that the Revd Sheilagh Kesting is to be Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland next year. She has worked very hard at forming and improving links with other churches as well as other faiths, and has many personal gifts to bring to her new role as from May 2007. In actual fact, I have no doubt that the round of publicity and preparation begins as from now. She was licensed in the Presbytery of Stornoway in the late 1970s if memory serves me correctly. She was cordially welcomed into the church national at her home church of St Columba’s, Stornoway, where I was a member. Quite an event, as Stornoway then, as now, had no female ministers in the area. Her graciousness struck me then, and has done on many difficult occasions since.
God will no doubt enjoy the journey as much as I Hope Sheilagh does!
Who?
The joiners.
No.
Perhaps if I said, “Not yet” it would put me in a better mood.
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………Some dogs don’t like going out in the rain…..
