General Witterings -
Feet etc. on Rosy

Does anyone want a dog?

Fanny has got REVOLTING manners.  She insists on eating with her mouth open, and she barely chews her food, preferring to swallow it whole.  She won't put her paw in front of her mouth when she yawns.  She whines when she wants to go out, and as soon as she IS out, she whines to come in and as soon as she IS in, she whines to go out again.  She has dug up the garden on Rosy.  Yes - we have (had) a garden, it is (was!!!) a very nicely planted window box sitting on the roof.  My suspicions (that all was not well) were aroused by the sight of a rather nice winter pansy falling down past the window (or should that be "passed the window"?)

She has suddenly awoken to the fact that I have feet, and each time they hove/hive into view she starts licking them.  Having feet licked is most odd, especially when she forces her tongue between the toes to dig out the especially tasty bits.  By careful experimentation, I have discovered that the attractiveness of my feet to a woof (i.e. my Fanny) increases in proportion to the square of the number of days since they were last washed.

The good ship Dordogne has been sold.  She is a wooden launch, built in Denmark just before WW2 as an inshore customs launch.  She was taken over by the Germans, and some say that she was captured by the allies, but eventually got back to Denmark where she was bought by a family that have owned her ever since.  They built a back cabin on her, making her a centre-cockpit boat, and have enjoyed her ever since.  She is now looking a bit tired, but she is a soundly built teak boat.  The asking price was 8,500 Euro, and four people were after her, so each was asked to put in their highest offer.  She went for 9,000 Euro to a combine of youngish people from Montargis, who, between them, reckon to have the skills to restore her to her former glory.  It was discovered that her leak had nothing to do with the soundness of the hull, but was due to a corrosion of a waste water pipe that exited below water level.

Heating problems on Rosy.  The lovely Kabola "Old Dutch" stove keeps going out.  I shut it down for its two-weekly de-coke, and now it won't keep going without manually overriding the automatic cut-out.  So we're a bit chilly on Rosy.

Toodle pip!!

Bill