Another new addition

The highlight of the week was a puppy as a new additon to our family. He's a 10 week old Beagle called Mutley and is stunningly gorgeous. No problems with him at night, no chewing (yet !) and the kitten gets on well with him and the cat wallops him every now and again and he has the battlescars to prove it. It's just the toilet training we need to sort out. He doesn't go on newspaper but anywhere that takes his fancy and shows no sign of needing to go beforehand so we spend most of our time out in the back yard walking him around ! Luckily mum and mike are here so there are four of us to share it around. Unfortunately mum and mike are off to Kargoolie tomorrow for a week and Paul is back at work so it'll just be me. I'm not looking forward to it at all, I hope he learns fast !!

Other than that a pretty quiet week. Mike has helped out a lot in the garden and the three big trees have been removed along with another two large shrubs - most of these had been planted in their pots so it was a miracle that they survived at all. Today I found another buried pot so that plant must have died - makes me wonder how many other pots are buried around the garden. I planted all the bulbs today and removed a load of ferns - we found three golf balls, some lego, a bird skull and a juggling ball too !! This is an exciting back yard.

We haven't yet had the plans drawn up for the swimming pool. We need to get more detailed plans from the council which is proving a nightmare. You have to order them and they take 3 - 5 days to be found (if they have them) but Paul keeps forgetting to order them. At this rate winter will be upon us and we'll have missed the boat.

The girls break up from school on Wednesday and I was looking forward to a lie in but no chance with Mutley. I was up at 6.30 on Saturday and 5.30 on Sunday morning so am now completely exhausted and have a nice set of black bags under my eyes ready for Wednesdays Body Shop party. Oh well, short term pain, long term gain (so they tell me).

10:44 - Sun 1 April 2007