Making progress - and losing the dog - again!!

Having been forewarned by Sarah about the 'redecoration' of the lobby floor we were nonetheless pleased to be back after a very straightforward run overnight. A strategically placed rug covers the 'teal tension' and will no doubt stay there until we get around to redecorating that area - not high on the agenda.

The guest room will soon be complete and we look forward to welcoming Paul, Jasmine and Millie next week. Jasmine and Sarah were at college together and Jasmine was one of Sarahs bridesmaids. The Moy game fair takes place next week-end and we are informed that it is a ;must' for the locals, so we will all be there.

Rhema once again decided to raise our stress levels by disappearing while Richard and I were unloading the car. Despite the 'trail' of a furry bone left at the top of the drive we were unable to locate her and were beginning to think it was possible that she might not be found when we got a phone call to say she was safe - on the other side of the A9!! For those of you not familiar with it, the A9 is a very fast road, notorious for the number of accidents on it so the fact that out air head of a dog managed to cross it without either getting hit herself or causing an accident is nothing short of a miracle. Sadly we have now decided that she cannot be free range and have had to keep the gates closed.

We are beginning to think about cutting wood to start dryingout and I am now the proud owner of my own chainsaw together with some very fetching steel toed orange wellies! In due course I will enrol on a chainsaw course but in the meantime am now back in Sutton after possibly the worst journey back we have ever experienced. I skidded into night duty with about 30 secs to spare and nearly broke my record of never having been late for work.

It's all systems go now as the survey on our house in Belmont will be done this week and the purchasers hope to move in in September. Richard will be heading back North with another car load on Monday - after a day watching the cricket in Birmingham and I will fly back on Thursday - wonder what I will find this time?