7.00   I am awake and feeling good after a full night’s sleep.  How much do we under estimate the  effects of sleep deprivation, especially as we get older?  I actually feel a bit positive in spite of all the gloomy news of the past few days.  I received a text this morning from one of my friends saying how good it will be when we can all get together again and have some laughs.  It made me realise how little I laugh at the moment.  I mean, I do laugh sometimes, I laughed this morning when I put down a bowl of the new biscuits which Audrey has decided have been poisoned, not only did she ignore them but actually turned her back on me and the biscuits and sat facing the other way to show her disdain.  However, laughing alone isn’t quite the same as when you are having a merry evening, indoors with your mates.  I guess it’s off to the pet shop this morning to try something else to

Today I had decided to go on the walk behind St Bartholomews church but the car park was completely packed, so many more people are getting out and about when they can, so we carried on to the Millenium Green walk in Heathfield.  It wasn’t the best of walks because Audrey for some reason didn’t believe that I hadn’t brought a ball along with us today and kept jumping around me, it was very muddy and then on the way back, we had to walk past a few shop and office people sitting on benches eating their lunches and Audrey, who had already tried to run off with another dog’s precious stick, now decided the people would like to share their picnics with her and no way was she going to come when she was called.  Luckily people were kindly amused but I had to have a strong stage whisper in her ear after we had gone past.