… is called for tonight. <\/p>\n
I’ve had a hectic day.<\/p>\n
It all went wrong at about 04:00 when we had the most tremendous thunderstorm. That, I reckon must have awoken almost everyone in the neighbourhood. And the torrential rainstorm made it almost impossible for everyone to go back to sleep.<\/p>\n
I was still awake when the alarms went off and at 07:00 I was up and about, breakfasting and making my butties.<\/p>\n
We had a rush to get into work this morning but eventually everyone arrived there and for the first time for quite a while we had a full house (excepting Ellen of course).<\/p>\n
And so I was something rather supernumerary so I carried on with a little project that I had started yesterday on the laptop as well as chatting to one or two customers who were waiting.<\/p>\n
Apparently there’s a family of ospreys who have made a nest in the pipework of the cornmill and we were admiring their handiwork.<\/p>\n
Later on this afternoon Rachel ran me down to Fredericton to pick up Strider where he was having some work done. <\/p>\n
And that wasn’t as straightforward as it might seem. There were piles of queues on the roads, roadworks, a police stake-out, and eventually the road that we needed was blocked off by road works so we had to back up and go the long way around. <\/p>\n
And all the time we were dealing with telephone calls from the office about accounts enquiries. No wonder we were all so stressed out when we arrived.<\/p>\n
I went to the Atlantic Superstore for some groceries and then picked up some fuel at Keswick before coming back. <\/p>\n
And my odyssey isn’t over because there seems to a be a shock absorber that has burst judging by the bizarre handling from the nearside rear that had me all across the road on a couple of occasions. <\/p>\n
So now; totally exhausted, I’m off to bed. I”ll need my strength to sort out this rear end tomorrow. <\/p>\n
