(0532) Bleah out there at first light. (0705)

 

5. Thank goodness nothing similar could happen over here

… under our Beloved Sausage:

4. DAD, sadly, is having cyber issues today

We wish him a speedy technological recovery and shall see his letter from la belle France demain. Meanwhile:

3. Flora and fauna

For someone who once had a gardening business for a short time … as a student, tending to the gardens of the horticulturally appreciative … it was best I got out while I did … neither flora nor fauna particularly entered my world, though they very much did that of my parents, herbaceous borders and all, gazebos in the garden.

Don’t get me wrong though … a person can appreciate flowers and furry creatures and they, in turn, might take a shine to you, sensing that liking … and yet … and yet … one’s world did not revolve around them.

“What’s that lovely thingy with the thorns?”

(Slowly, as if to an idiot) “A rose?”

“Yep, that’s the one.”

“And that thingy in the cage?”

“A rabbit?”

“You not worried about myxomatosis or blight?”

(Withering glare.)

Thing was … to my mind, dogs for example were always tragic … no one does pathos and devotion quite like a doggy … but it’s a fulltime job for fourteen or so years and there’s not one day of respite if you truly care for your best pal … a dog is truly not just for Christmas, nor a cat.

My venus flytrap also needs attention, needs to be split and repotted right now, has grown quite lush but then there’d have to be a renaming … not just Enid anymore but also Ethel, Elaine, Eva, Emma, Eloise, Eliza, Edith and so on … they’d soon take over the windowsill, not unlike triffids … and then where would we be?

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