The other big news is the fitting of the dog door in the sliding door. This has been a bit of a saga as the first company said it could not be done as there wasn’t enough space but all you have to do is find an independent soul and hey presto the impossible becomes possible. Just wave money. All that remains is to persuade the dogs Amber in particular that it will not devour them or permanently maim them and it is quite advantageous for them to be able to use it whenever they want. For Charley this is not a problem for Amber who was born scared this is a huge ask.
That’s the big news and the poms are coming back England beat Afghanistan for the first time ever in all the annals of Polo, warfare in the Khyber and probably many other forms of contact and non-contact activities. Actually I have a memory of England beating the nearly Afghans when Sid James and Charles Hawtry, playing Private Widdle, as well as Terry Scott as the English at tiffin beat of the rampaging Burpas led by Kenneth Williams and Bernard Breslaw. The film was Carry on up the Khyber and Holly, Google it. I also know it was set in northern India but I had a bet with myself that I could get a Carry On film reference in at some point. On the subject of films we watched a three hour film where absolutely nothing happened except the life of a “normal” American family thing of domestic violence, divorce etc. and Hol says they are going to make a sequel. Well this one took 12 years to make so maybe the next one will take longer for nothing to happen. It’s called Boyhood and Hol loved it I was ambivalent as I kept hoping something dramatic would happen, but as I say it never did.
And the hour of the pom was at its zenith when Freddy Flintoff, he’s is a famous English cricketer who single-handedly defeated the marauding Australians to retain the Ashes, won I’m a Celebrity Get Me out Of Here. No I haven’t watched it either it was on the Guardian website. Honest. Apart from that Eddy the Gardener paid us a visit to measure up for another raised bed and to check out how much lawn we want so all is good to go for the back garden. Perhaps it won’t look so much like a desert though perhaps given the lack of water in the world perhaps green concrete is the way to go. A for bird of the day goes it has been a bit of a disaster as I have had to use up White-browed Scrub Wren, the equivalent would be a Wren I guess, and Superb Fairy –Wren, imagine a Wren dipped a little bit in metallic paint. I will endeavour to get a photo but they are skulkey little beggars.