Wet weather Program-Boredom!

Wet and very windy today and for much of it Bob the dog and I stayed in and got the fire on. Depressing reading and watching the murderous carnage wrought in France by these home grown Islamic thugs. I cannot but think we are under as much danger from these people as we were from Germany in 1938. We also seem to be appeasing them to. I feel it will end in tears.

Anyway, we ventured out late on and drove up to the top of the hill that overlooks the coastal plain to the sea and got a dose of sea breeze. Now Bob has this thing about birds and today the fields were covered in sea gulls and crows. Not wasting a minute he tore off on operation roundup. Like a thing possessed he charged off here and there setting to flight hundreds of seagulls that did not take kindly to his pestering and set about dive bombing him. Bob with his tail between his legs tore back and hid under the car with just his nose showing in the shadows. I ignored him and went looking for a ball we had lost the day before. Five minutes elapsed and the seagulls settled to lunch once more and that was the red flag to the bull as off he shot again. Round and around the field with the gulls in host pursuit went Bob until exhausted he poddled back to his refuge under the car.

He has a thing about birds. Probably being a field working cocker spaniel has something to do with it. He once dived into a lake and retrieved a very much alive duck to my surprised wife. The duck was pretty surprised to.