The week.

Well here we are again, another Friday. The weeks just fly by don't they.

This week has been good fun. Apart from being woken up by George at 6.00am for 3 days of the week and Barney for the other 4, it has been a nice week.

We managed to get out for a drink on Wednesday night, to the local. We had a spot of food and George ran around in the beer garden (That's a strange expression isn't it. If a Rose Garden is a garden full of roses and a Water Garden is a garden full of water...).

I have been training Barney to sit and shake a paw, and trying in vain to get him to fetch. He does the sitting stuff easily enough but whenever I throw one of his toys he legs after it and then just lies down with it and chews it to death.

I am quite happy that the weather has got a bit cooler. The hot weather means that you can't wear jeans, and when you have a puppy with a mouth full of needle sharp teeth you need some serious leg protection. His biting is lessening off now, but the sooner those teeth fall out the better.

George has been doing the usual routine, a bit like me. I go to work, he goes to Nursery. We have asked them to try and limit the amount of sleep he has in the day because he is up all night otherwise. Then he is woken early by the dog and he is really tired and iritable.

The garden is coming along nicely. I decided that it was time to go container mad. With a dog and a small child running around there is a need for semi-permanence that the container brings. I have been buying up all the cheap plants from B&Q and sticking them in the plastic pots they sell. I did buy a couple of the proper clay ones, but I was speaking to a lady in there and she said that not only were the plastic ones far cheaper and just as visually pleasing, but the clay ones had a tendancy to crack if the frost got to them. Seems to me that plastic is the way forward. The plants I have been getting look virtually dead, hence the cheap prices, but with a bit of dead-heading, watering and feeding, they spring to life. I have put together a couple of hanging baskets, and re-invigorated the big wooden barrles outside the front of the house by filling them with any leftover plants I have. I am testing a few different types of plants down the wall by our drive. There is not much sunshine there so I am giving the "Shade Loving" plants a go. It really is starting to look nice. All I need to do now is to train Sarah to water them all occasionally....

Well, I better go and do some work. I'll write soon.

Rich.