Good morning from Sophie who by five thirty has chased the black and white C-A-T from the woodpile and glared at the village goats, geese and horses. After that whirl of excitement she sits and watches as Angus tops up the water in the pool. We read in this mornings FT that the ' US has the highest number of civilian fire arms per capita ahead of Yemen'.
At the shopping centre the small wooden hut that sells gaufres is open. It has been acquired by two enthusiastic young men who have extended its opening hours. The previous owners opened at noon. The new proprietors open at six. They seem to believe there will be a start of day market for office workers stopping off for a sugar infusion. I wish them well but, looking at a largely deserted car park, have a sneaking suspicion this is a business plan that hasn't been thought through. Enthusiasm may have trounced rationality.
Dog and owner move on to the modern cafe where Sophie settles under the table and glares at the audacious sparrows who hop expectantly around. She is torn between reminding them who's boss and staying still and enjoying the morning sunshine. The sunshine wins. The young lady behind the cafe counter ( she of the execrable but enthusiastic English and the cheerful Downton Abbey style greeting 'Gude mahnin yewir lord sip' ) slips a mendiant onto the tray for the family diva.
Cherries make an appearance in the greengrocers.
Monday morning reading :https://inference-review.com/article/the-riddle-of-the-mountain
And things I didn't know ... or need to know :https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/genyornis
A dog device that can throw treats :https://us.eufylife.com/products/t7200121?ref=navimenu_3_img
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The young lady behind the cafe counter reminds me of Officer Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo, a main staple of British comedy from the 1980's.
I would not go for the device that throws treats. When we first got Charlie, we realized he had an insatiable desire to play fetch - meaning for us to throw things for him to fetch. We thought we were clever when we found something called iFetch, which is a device into which, theoretically, a dog will drop a mini tennis ball and then chase it when it emerges in a random direction from one of three holes at the bottom. The video clearly showed dogs dropping the balls into the device - by themselves. Charlie adores iFetch, but his idea is that WE drop the balls into the device and then he chases. I have caught him a few times doing it on his own when he thinks we're not watching, so I'm pretty sure he knows how it works, but having us do it is so much more fun. This is his routine every morning while we are eating breakfast, and I curse the day I bought the thing, but I can't throw it away because he loves it. Perhaps for Christmas, I will buy him the more expensive version of iFetch, which throws the ball by itself like the device feeder, but I wonder . . .
Nobby has a dog device that throws treats. It's called Gail.
The Monday morning reading, as well as the treat throwing, will I'm afraid have to wait until Gail has attended to a leaking tap in the kitchen.
Hari OM
I shall have to go back to read over lunch - but the egg and the mountain articles hold good appeal! More, perhaps, than an early waffle... YAM xx
The Cherrys look nice, enjoy the warm sunshine
Sensible Sophie opting for the sunshine instead of the cheeky sparrows - they have a habit of flying away just as you think you've almost caught one!
Lidl is not a supermarket I shop in very often, and I realised why when I saw the customers pushing one another, to just join the queue to grab the first cherries of the season. This was immediately after the store opened!
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