As my Great Grandfather used to say: ‘Tis weather for Ducks love…’ I don’t mind rain, as long as it’s proper rain. Rain that throws it down, hammering your window at night almost violently while your all cuddled up in the blankets feeling blissful that your indoors snuggles up with nowhere to go and not outdoors with your umbrella inside out as you battle the force of Mother Nature.
Alas, we have had no rain like that. We have had that drizzle that can manage to soak you in five minutes flat and no umbrella or indeed a hood can keep it away – you see it, you have to go out in it, you know your going to get wet, end of. I am tiring now of wearing boots to outcalls and want to get my slingbacks back on pronto – I just need the weather to cooperate a little…
And fog… Yeah.., we’ve had some fog. Particularly last weekend across The Gower, we had fog. It made the common look very bewitching and dare I even say it, romantic, but it made the pillocks that drive white cars without their lights on particularly difficult to spot until you were staring down the nose of their bonnets.
A driver of a white car with no lights on in thick fog decided to overtake a bike rider, for his part, the rider was waving his hand in frustration and I am sure if I had clear visability I would have made out the term ‘f***ing w***er from his lips as the car jerked back onto his side of the road to avoid a collision with me. I had my fog lights on and that is what possibly saved me a nasty bump and a necessary showdown on the common with some fool that nobody can see coming until it’s almost far too late…
The rain has prevented me getting into my garden and planting all my cuttings this week. Come rain or shine I will have to do it this weekend as they need to be out in plenty of earth to grow and blossom in time for late spring.
I think we have been far too spoiled when it comes to rain the last few months – sure we have had snow then ice then snow but then we had sun and sun and sun so when the rain did come, it was a bit of a shock to the system.
Let’s hope we get the worst of it over now and when the clocks go forward this weekend, we get lovely balmy evenings where it remains light much later into the afternoon and the temperatures slowly start to creep up.
Once again this week I was delighted to welcome my exquisite box of chocolates man! Many thanks and you will be pleased to hear that this time I did not sit down and demolish the entire box in one go and in about half an hour!
This time I paced myself. I have been having just three chocolates per evening to make the pleasure last longer! It’s been absolute heaven.
To my client who visited me for the first time ever this week and the bed broke… Fear not Sir! I have fixed those slats and given it a good bouncing upon, they remain intact so it was a temporary break easily fixed. Quite why I laughed when the bed seemingly broke is beyond me, I mean, I would be the one paying out for the new bed, right? But it was funny and you were a good sport Sir so thank you for taking it all in your stride.
It would seem the spring in the air and the finally blooming daffodils has put a spring in the steps of my clients who have kept me busy the last few weeks. And I need to be kept busy else I will fall into the hands of mischief…
Already I have advance bookings for the coming weeks so urge those thinking of booking me to book ahead as Easter is fast approaching and I will be closing my diary soon. If your very lucky you might get a chance to catch me on a ‘same day as you call’ booking but the way advanced bookings are going at the moment, you would have to be very lucky so skates on and pick up the phone early, please.
Once again, a timely reminder, please do not call me at 10 am and ask for 10.30am that day – it’s not going to happen unless your a very good regular and can take the sight of me with bed hair and with a pile of dishes in my sink!
Also, please don’t call me at 2am – I do sleep you know, no, really, I do actually sleep and you will get nothing but a bark of ‘get lost’ from me if your going to call at that time asking if I am free for an incall right now…
Again, I know that the sort of client that does that is not the sort to read this blog but you never know, something might filter through…
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