Another hot and humid start to the day. The French teacher has lost her two Labradors . She installed one of those systems that passes a shock through the dogs collar when it crosses a buried wire. Whatever you may think about the ethics of giving your dog an electric shock the technology only works if the dogs are wearing the collars. If someone forgets to put them on the dogs are prone to wandering. This is what has happened. Local builders, the postmen, the school bus drivers ,the staff at the special needs home and Angus are all out looking for them. Its been 3 days now. Losing two dogs must be extremely stressful. 'The Font' double checks our old fashioned garden fence to make sure there are no gaps.
For some reason 7/8ths of the sky is cloud free but a quadrant is densely covered with contrails. There must be a wedge of super chilled air at 35000 feet.
On our way down to the bakers we stop for roadworks. A morose lad has one of those signs that he can turn to green or red. This works if the morose lad has the wherewithal to notice that a car with its engine running and two lively sheepdogs in the back has driven up to him. He is busy texting and completely oblivious to our presence. After a while I beep the horn. He gives me the finger. Then thinking more of it gives me the finger again. Finally, he turns the sign to green and waves me on impatiently.
Todays pastry section looks the part ...
.... but there's something about the surfeit of artificial colouring that puts us off.
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Had to laugh, so typical when interrupting someone's screen time so they will do their job.
Bob is such a soulful guy - or perhaps he's just waiting for a walk or his breakfast? I do hope the French teacher recovers her dogs.
What a rude young man! I would jump out the car and bite his ankles.
Toodle pip!
Bertie.
PS We so hope the Labradors are found safe and well.
As its still the school holidays and there are almost no cars on the road his job must be truly tedious. A perfect example of job creation measures at work.
Bobs start of day 'What have we got planned ? ' look.
In Scotland I might have been tempted to say something.
Hari OM
Now you have half the world (well those that read your blog) fretting for two labradors. News of their fate is hoped for soon... YAM xx
how distressing for the French teacher to lose her Labradors. I do hope that, with all those people looking, they will be found soon. Didn't someone else in your village - was it the same lady - lose two Golden Retrievers some years ago? They were found safe, but hungry, quite a way from home?
I'm glad that my Lab. doesn't seem to have an inclination to roam far - she might miss a meal time !
It is so humid that our lawn, which has been dormant brown for two months, is now green despite never being watered. And it hasn't rained. I wish it would, to break this weather.
In the underground parking lot in Toulouse recently, two young women were loading their shopping and children and strollers into an extremely large SUV that was parked in the middle of the driveway. If they closed the doors, cars could pass by angling around in the empty parking spaces next to them. Why did they have to stop where they would block everybody? Why not just load up in a parking space? After sitting blocked for five minutes, unable to back up because there were 15 cars behind me, they closed the car door again and I could advance. I gave them the finger (I had considered honking, but in a parking garage that annoys everybody and not just the rude offenders). You know what--they chased me down! Both of them. They left their two kids in their SUV and came after me just because I didn't smile at their complete disregard for everybody else. I thought one was going to hit me, but they seemed to realize I had the backing of all the other drivers whom they had kept waiting and who were trying to get past them.
Well remembered. Yes. it was the same lady with 2 previous dogs. They were found after 9 days. She went the hi tech route with the shock collar this time round but it hasn't worked out. They've been gone for 3 coming on 4 days which in this heat is not a good sign. School starts for her on Monday.
We are becoming fearful - its 32 degrees and humid but the little river has dried up for the first time in the village memory.
French parking etiquette ( or lack of it ) is perhaps the strangest thing for foreigners to accept. Complete obliviousness to others is not a thing Anglo Saxons accept.
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