It’s amazing how quickly things can change. The yearly State Conference will finish early , or it hopes to, (Plan A) (I have now been sent the business papers) so I should be heading home on Wednesday. The District bi-monthly Conference has been postponed until 15th June and the visit to the RAH has been rescheduled until 14th August. So, barring any surprises, after 15th June, I should not have to go back to Adelaide until August – that has to be a bonus.
The terrorist has never really been a cutesy dog although Maltese have been associated with “cutesy” people. One of the grooms we took him to years ago had this thing about bows on dogs and she kept puting a small bow or a bandana on him at the end of his bath, clip and groom. She was such a nice lady that I really didn’t want to tell her not to do this and the bow lasted about three minutes after he was in the car. I did get him home once and managed to get a photograph of him on my computer chair with the pretty blue bow in his hair – well the hair on his head :o) I keep it to remind me that I had a “cutesy” dog for all of two minutes.
The thought occurs to me that I sometimes use words and phrases that I am familiar with but other people might not be. One of these is referring to my wife as ‘ Herself”. In old Scots and Irish, a woman of importance – the head of a household or the head of a family – was referred to as “Herself”. The same was also true for males – “Himself”. In parts of country Ireland (or so I believe) but still today in the Scottish Highlands, the terminology continues in common use – wives referring to husbands, husbands referring to wives.
You will, I know, be delighted to learn that our “Indian Summer” has broken and it has been raining for the best part of twelve hours. It has not been the ” bounce off the roadway” rain but a steady and constant rain. This could well be all we will get for some time and it is very welcome up here. In Adelaide and the South East of the State it is forecast to be raining for most of this week. At least we got a little bit – enough to give the ground a good soak.
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