Back to Normal

After our brief flirtation with Night Shift working, Dad comes back to bed at 06:00 this morning and we hang on in there even with Mum going off to work normally. Where Dad is is where a dog should be, even if it's rather sleepy "action".

At just gone midday something wakes us all up - dogs leap into action and accelerate away across the bed..... as it happens, right across Dad's "moobs". Arghhhh!!! A rude awakening or what? Never mind, we are soon forgiven, and we have the rest of the day with Dad awake and around. There's something to be said for these night hours.

The garden is now choc-a-block with baby birds doing "flying school". The fences are peopled by rows of baby brown starlings sitting next to a Mum or a Dad and screeching at him/her to get fed, and next to these are similar families of sparrows, the babies sit crouched with trembling wings. Blackbirds all up and down the street are "Chuck- Chuck" ing in alarm at some threat. Sad to say, at least we know it's not "our cats" this year.

Have a good one

Deefer

This Starling is Reversing

You know how good these starlings are at mimickry. We have one around our house that "sings" the electronic bleeping "doodle-oop... doodle-oop" rising and falling notes of HGV reversing warnings. Mum and Dad expect any minute to hear a voice recorder saying "This Starling is Reversing"

We saw Ellie tonight - wow! She's finally had her haircut and what a transformation! She is brilliant white immaculate, with the close cropped back and flanks, very close cut neck and the longer hair on the head and the "feathers" along her belly and legs. She is beautiful. She looks just like a show dog! Dad must take a photo to show you. I don't think I'll ever be that gorgeous, even if Dad practises for years with those clippers.

Have a great weekend
Deefs