Animals are like small children

Animals are like small children some times you have to get up in the middle of the night with them. This happed to me last night when our Norfolk terrier Toby just wouldn’t settle down. Now that’s usual because normally he is very good during the night but last night I had to get up at three in the morning with him. He made it quite clear that he wanted to go out. After 15 minutes of sniffing and all the rest of the program that he normally does when we go for a walk. When we got back he settled down nicely for the rest of the night and with in a few minutes he was fast asleep (I could tell because he was snoring). Me, well I was wide-awake and it took me some time to go back to sleep. The photo of Toby was taken just before Christmas, he likes sitting on the windowsill-watching people passing by.

This morning at the breakfast table we decided that we had enough of Christmas decorations (six weeks) so after breakfast I started putting them away. When I got round to putting the crib away I asked my wife “how long have we had the crib” her answer was 33 years.

My first thought was, hell time does fly. I remember making the crib; in fact years later I made one for our daughter exactly like this one (see photo)

I received a mail today again from my brother with some more good tips for my blog. I find it very satisfying that we are sharing something in common. Unfortunately because I’m 11 years older then he is and due to the fact that I left home when he was only seven and he lives in New Zealand and I live in Germany we have never had the chance to get to know each other properly. I think that’s a crying shame.

My brother mentioned my grammar in his mail and of course he is right, my only explanation is that after living in Germany for over 40 years and speaking, reading and writing German to
98 % I tend to put my sentences back to front at times. This is a fact and remains one.

This afternoon my wife and I went and did our weekly shopping, I expected the shops to be more busy after the holidays in fact they were empty needlessly to say our shopping was less stressful as it normally is. When we went to the Bank there were so many people there you would have thought they was giving money away free.

Take care were ever you are, Tschüss