Wednesday 23rd September 2020 Day 183
7.00 I have been awake for a while listening to the rain hitting the top of the car. It is a nice sound when you haven’t heard it for a long time and it will be nice to have a break from watering the garden pots tonight.
8.00 I am going to Dormans Park for lunch today, a little trepidatious as I guess we will be eating indoors due to the rain but Ann says she will be very careful and she has a very large dining room table. I have shoved on old clothes and will shower etc after I have taken Audrey; she doesn’t care about the rain, probably because she is half poodle and therefore half water dog. We go for a nice long one all round the woods, as I am going to have to leave her for longer than I like to but it is not very often so I am sure she will be fine
Looking out into the fields from the dark of the woods I see several pheasants doing that funny Charlie Chaplin run that they do. They have their young with them and they are heading into the hedges as they have seen Audrey.
9.15 We return from our walk and I go down to the greenhouse to collect another big bowl of tomatoes; they seem to be overtaking me now, I must find something to do with them, the passata I tried to make was just not a success. Back in April I sowed some pumpkin seeds to give to my grandchildren for Halloween and they have been my most satisfying crop on the vegetable patch this year, I pulled up two lovely big pumpkins to bring up to the house. Meanwhile more and more of those strange squashes keep coming. It really has been an odd veg year.
12.45 I have arrived at Ann’s house along with another friend Jackie. I haven’t seen either of them since before March so we have a lot of catching up to do over a bottle of Chardonnay and then the most delicious lunch of curried lamb and apricots on rice followed by a tarte tatin and cream, I can almost watch my diet slip out of the window.
The talk continues and I take my leave much later than I had intended and don’t get home till nearly six o clock but who knows how long it will be before I see them again in this present climate.
I was pondering on the way home about the fact that we all probably try not to have to use the loo in friends houses and the fact that many public loos have been closed. Surely Shewees (portable urine devices for women) are the answer. I wonder if sales have gone up and whether it might be worth buying some shares?