Always on guard

We had a much earlier wake up call then we were expecting this morning as all of a sudden Owen heard something at around 3am and tore down stairs barking his head off and going berserk. We have no idea what he heard as he quickly calmed down and went down to sleep, so whatever it was it must have disappeared sharpish.

Not that we had any inclination to scold him as we learned a lesson that sometimes Dog bark in the night with good reason as when we used to live at our old house many, many, many moons ago our dog Duke suddenly started barking in the middle of the night, Tap dance went downstairs and told him off but was dismayed to find out the next morning that not only had the next door neighbours been robbed, the window in our utility room was open. It seems that we had been next o nthe bad guys list but Duke had heard them and scared them away. Suffice to say Duke was well apologised to as he probably saved quite a few of our belongings.

The much hyped massive rainfall has failed to materlise again today. In fact it stayed sunny for most of the day and was quite warm. Maybe this is the secret to getting a summer of nice weather in the UK get the weathermen to forecast the exact opposite.

It was interesting at work today as due to a sudden surge in customers we started to run low on change, meaning that I had to go to the bank and thus walk through the town centre and the 'beach' that is there every summer. Yes you read that correct folks every summer Nottingham council construct a 'beach' in the town centre complete with paddling pool, sand, and various fairground attractions including crazy golf. Well I'm sure it made sense to someone at the time when they first came up with the idea.

Anyway,

Later folks.