Dalyan – 26th November

I had so many plans for Tuesday 26th November but it didn’t go quite as I had hoped. Captain Caveman had gone to Bridge Club and I finished doing a bit of work and blog writing. I’d had tea and cornflakes for breakfast and I had the good sense to take a photo of the contents of the fridge then made some more samosas and some cheese rolls. Today we were going to be looking after 2 of our favourite dogs, Norman and Edna, until Christmas Eve while their owner went on holiday.
Jamie and I said our goodbyes, after weighing the cases which were bang on the allowance, and I knew that Jamie was going to miss Norman and Edna so much. Luckily, little Norman was like a new dog compared to last year and was doing so well. As I spend a lot of time with Norman and Edna, I knew they would be fine and I planned to keep them entertained as much as possible. The building noise was fairly loud and the dogs kept barking at the workmen so I decided to take them upstairs to the front bedroom. It was lovely and sunny outside but pretty cold in the house.
Captain Caveman arrived at Jamie’s expecting lunch and I was running a cloth round trying to get rid of some of the builder’s dust that had settled.

Captain Caveman went back to Fire Opal while I sat out on the bedroom balcony with Norman. He had gone to get some lunch and was going to make chicken sandwiches and bring the samosas and cheese rolls over. Norman was quite cold and shivery as the painters had all the doors and windows open but, luckily, the suntrap of the balcony was much better for him. All 4 of us sat out there while we ate the lunch which Captain Caveman had brought us and the dogs were disappointed not to get a snaffle. After lunch, Captain Caveman played Bridge on his phone while layed on the bed with Edna, he was cold so kept his coat and hat on. I decided I would put the dogs their new winter coats on and they did look cute. I fed the dogs, observing the correct instructions of quantity and medication.

After a dinner of warmed up curry and everyone settling down, I was going to do some work. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen as Captain Caveman thought he would be helpful by trying to get the water machine working and one of the buttons got stuck. I got involved when a few litres of water were all over the kitchen floor and no mop or towel had been reached for! The mop was less than a metre from the spillage and I got that plus a dog towel to clean it up, while Captain Caveman was happy to paddle about in it saying ‘it’s only a bit of water!’
It was already going to feel like a long month but then, mid-mopping, I did my back in and was in a bit of pain. I was also annoyed with Captain Caveman for messing about with the water machine despite me telling him we were to wait until it got wired in – of course, he didn’t listen or care about that. I didn’t sleep well that evening and I knew I had a very busy day tomorrow. I had consumed 245 syns this week and I was still hoping for a loss at Fat Club this week.