That was the week that was...

Wow, where did the last week go ? I seem to have achieved very little. A tiny amount of work and I did deliver a short talk to some students for UCL who are thinking of becoming barristers, but not much else. I did manage to put a new fascia on the dishwasher, which I have been meaning to do for ages and wish I had done sometime ago. Apart from that, the week has been dominated by satisfying Molly's needs, which are narrow in scope, but challenging in frequency.

Molly is having her belated 6 week check up tomorrow. She weighed in at almost 11lb last week, so it will be interesting to see how much she weighs now. Hopefully, Helen will be cleared to drive too. Being the sole driver for the last 7 weeks has been logistically awkward at times.

The lawn doctor turned up early to complete the winter treatment of the lawns last week. I was acutely embarrassed to take him out into the back garden which resembled a scene from the Somme. The dogs have been spending too much time on their own in the garden, which is strewn with toys, sticks, bits of cardboard, plastic and indeed anything else that they have been able to scavenge from the house and/or the bins. They have also established a number of race tracks (muddier than your average scrambling circuit) around the larger shrubs and have churned up the grass to such an extent that the lawn doctor opined that at least it did not need to be scarified. However, it is in need of some urgent application of grass seed as the lawn now mostly consists of moss and mud. I am not sure we need a lawn doctor, a lawn transplant surgeon perhaps or maybe a block paving specialist.

We are back to having three cars in the drive as the Outlaws have now gone to Brisbane, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur until mid-March. So far this year they have spent just 2 weeks in the UK. Alright for some eh ?