Unfortunately there'll be no images on this entry, the last numbers of holiday photo's remain on the camera which will be attached to Caroles PC tonight in order to burn to CD for dad's accumulated holiday DVD. Even worse is the fact that we've been home for four days now and have yet to take any new pictures
It will be most prevalent to take photo's of the dogs soon. Whilst in kennels both seem to have been treated well, and Sima in particular seems to have lost a little of her pot belly. In fact, when picking them up the kennel owners wide showed a very distinct reluctance to give her back! A bit too much bonding there methinks....
After getting the dogs home on Saturday (and watching Isis re-apply her usual batch of drool and slobber throughout the house) I registered - for the first time ever I may add - with an online bookmaker. Not because I'm developing an irrational need to throw all my wages down the toilet, but merely in order to allow us to place bets on the Grand National without being faced with the inconvenience of having to exert any more energy on our first day back in Scotland than was absolutely necessary by walking to a bookies shop. Between us we backed four horses, or whom three completed the race. Despite this, our highest placing was 7th, which I think indicates the cessation of any possibility of making a living out of this betting business!
On Saturday night - after a brief reappearance from bed by a weary Luca - we settled down with a Chinese and "The Apprentice" on the BBC I-Player. That's what being at home is all about! Sunday was dominated by odd jobs (fixing fences and the dog pound) and walks with the dogs in the surprisingly mild Inverurie spring breeze. It wasn't quite Tenerife, but in the larger scheme it was OK.
Yesterday I was back on the buses for my daily work commute, which as before wasn't as dreadful as I'd originally expected. Surprisingly I arrived back home at a reasonable time - 6.45pm - to be greeted by Carole, Luca and Guthrie, who'd popped in to see Sima. He's just ordered a black Labrador puppy, which'll be a bit cute. It did, however, remind me of the pet shop in Tenerife which rather cruelly had puppies in glass cages within the store, wherein there was a beautiful golden lab puppy who Ross and I briefly considered rescuing and packing in our luggage for our return to the UK. Although I'm rather unsure how long it would have survived surrounded by Ross's unwashed pants...
Luca was very cute yesterday too, and it appears his vocabulary has increased exponentially during the holiday. He's much noisier now, and is communicating extremely effectively. As he progresses further I'll have him him in front of the Skype camera for family chats.
And speaking of family, Jane, Nick and Max are coming up to stay with us for a few days from Friday. With Easter Sunday looming two days after, it will either be fun or hell on earth watching Luca and Max fight over the chocolate eggs....
Lastly, I downloaded the game "Left 4 Dead" for Carole last night on my PC, but unfortunately it appears my graphics card isn't strong enough. A shame, as for for those not in the know the games objective is to run around blowing the heads off screaming zombies - perfect for Carole! I also downloaded Katy Perry's album, which is pure pop rather than my usual obscure Indie/Shoegazing/Rock/etc. Am I mellowing music-wise? Nope, I'll classify this purely as an aberration!
**Useless fact of the day - In 1960, when Elvis Presley was at his post-military trimmest, he weighed a little over 12 stone. When he died, in 1977, he weighed a just under 19 stone**
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