Wednesday 28th October 2020 Day 218

8.15   Just couldn’t be bothered to get out of bed this morning, more grey skies, more rain, more Covid, more restraints, social calendar zero for the foreseeable, although actually my choice.  But it’s funny because the minute I get out of bed the optimism for life returns and I am thinking that so very many people must be feeling the same at the moment and probably with much more reason than me.

10.00   It’s cleaning pond filter day Hooray!  Not!  But it has to be done and I just manage to avoid a huge downpour as I finish.  I heard on the radio this morning that gold fish can hear and certainly my fish start jostling at the side of the pond when I first walk by in the morning but I always assumed it was because they could see me, not because they could hear me.  So by that token,

maybe my suspicions that they recognise me visually as well, could be true.  I have long noticed that if someone is visiting and we go to feed the fish, who normally congregate at the surface when they hear the food pellets container rattling, as soon as we appear by the pond, they retreat until I have asked the other person to step back a bit.  I can’t believe that they are nervous of unfamiliar humans but it has happened on so many occasions.

I have just discovered the picture I took of a delightful looking little pub in Eartham the other day, I was quite tempted to go in, other than we were set to go walking but I shall return one of these days when I feel more comfortable with going into places.

13.15  The sky is looking a little lighter and there has been no rain for a while so we set off to the woods.  Audrey is so excited she is almost yodelling as we approach, it is the first time we have been here for a while. Five minutes into the walk and the heavens open, rain falling like stair rods.  We both get soaked but only one of us minds!  A group of very elderly people with tall walking sticks, pass us, they all seem to have a different idea of which way they should be heading and are having loud discussions about it.  Maybe they have been walking around the woods for days but when I last see them they are heading up the hill towards the pub so I guess they are ok.

We get home and Audrey is so muddy I have to hose her down, much to her disgust.  We are soon dried off and comfortable again and feeling better for a bit of fresh air.