Wednesday, 10-05-23

 Good morning, everyone.  After a nice, dry day most of yesterday, in the evening we had the father and mother of a thunderstorm with some torrential rain at times!   The BBC reckons that there's more of the same to come today but, right now, it is cool and fresh and beautifully sunny  and I am going to enjoy it while it lasts.

I can't complain - I got my whites all washed and line dried, ironed and the sheets went straight back on the bed again.  Nice.

Groove was fine.  I wore my ankle bandage, just in case, and wasn't as bouncy as I usually am but, after some initial aching, the ankle was absolutely fine so that was good.

Thank you all very much for your lovely, happy comments about Lucy.  I lifted this directly from Beth's Facebook message yesterday evening (which a few of you will have already seen, I think):

Lots of preening and polishing going on today. She has minor scrapes and sore patches and slightly red eyes, but is getting shiny and lovely again and not the sad, bedraggled, twiggy and filthy state I pulled out of the hedge this morning. Which is where she had been... stuck in a ruddy hedge.

I heard her meowing in one of my roams around looking for her. Ended up hacking off significant quantities of said hedge in the small hours when I realised that was where she was, still couldn't see her, had to wait till daylight and resumed said criminal damage to hedge again at about 7am this morning.

After one particularly strenuous heave she appeared and promptly dashed under a car where she remained, howling her head off as me and some friendly passers by attempted to coax, and then poke her out.

Whereupon she promptly *got back into the hedge she had been stuck in* and had to be hauled out howling by the scruff of her neck. Oh and to top things off? I can see this hedge from my back door.

Oh Lucy.

She really hasn't covered herself with glory, I swear the ear mites and fleas she has brought back have more sense than she. The absolute muppet.

You have to laugh, don't you, but there is deep, deep relief that she is not slowly starving in a locked shed or garage, squashed flat on the road somewhere or, worst of all, stolen by some deeply nasty person - I tried very hard not to think of that last although it would have been highly unlikely, Lucy being a very timid cat who, usually, won't even go too close to Alex. Beth is her one and only human. Yes, she was obviously very frightened, very hungry and very stuck, but pretty much physically OK. And she wasn't out in last night's storm.

Yesterday really was a very happy day!!

In other news, the electricians arrive, installed the smart meter (it took longer than I thought and than the said!), explained the display and left. So that's all done. He looked at the solar panel stuff and said it looked as if the readings would go off automatically but, if they did ask me for a solar meter reading at any time, showed me where the dial was. Helpful!

Today is a stay at home day. No need to do a shop as I still have plenty of stuff to use. I have a load of coloureds to wash and dry and there's personal training later on. The garage is pretty much OK now but there's just a few bits, bobs and corners that could be better so I may very well do a bit of that, and there's a heap of stuff in the little bedroom that needs to go elsewhere as there's not as much room in the cupboard any more.

Not a very exciting day but I'm still feeling really happy about Lucy so it doesn't need to be exciting. Happy is more than enough! Did you have storms yesterday? xx