Day of rest!

This is a fairly quiet day.

I take Blake out first thing in the morning. Well, its 9 am.

The day is overcast but very mild and there's little or no wind. I've got a couple of layers of clothes on so I warm up very quickly.

Blake's in a hurry to get to the walk - actually, he's a bit proud and doesn't like doing number 2's in public so he's in a hurry to use the verge by the field!

The walk is pleasant. We get to the halfway point and I say that him that its time to go back. He immediately runs off back home. I catch up with him at the first sloe berry bush where he's snaffling every berry he can. I persuade him to continue and he checks out every bush until we get to the stile. Here he waits for me so I can give him a treat. I've managed to train him to wait for me at forks in the path and at major points where I have to slow down. Its very handy.

Back home, it's a case of domestic stuff - tidying up, getting rid of books, etc. We've been redecorating the house (to tell the truth its been mostly Marianand the decorator she hired to do the hall). I've done a bit but not vekry much. We've decided to clear the house at the same time. It's not easy because the things we want to get rid of have some attachments and in some cases they have value but the house is getting like our brains - cluttered! Anyway, I'm having a regular go at clearing out.

It's like taking a walk down memory lane seeing some of these things. It covers our married life (and before) as well as a lot of Pascale's. It's hard throwing some of it away but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!