Dead Frog Lane: Hot mouse action and a randy dog

Can I have a P please, Bob?

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MONDAY

Started to write about Sam going to lunch with currently-named-Adam, but as soon as I mentioned Aunty Bea’s Mini, I went off on a tangent about the Minis she’d owned in the past and I remembered a time a few years ago the boys and I got a very fast lift in London in an open-top Mini with no seatbelts in the back.

I know I have a photo of it so I searched my photos for May 2019, and up popped this one, which I took because I wanted to put it in a book. I do love this kind of serendipity.

This is the one I was actually looking for. Joe “afraid for his life” apparently.

Words today: 307

Total wordcount: 4968 - nope!

Words today: 339

Total wordcount: 5000 - yay!

Added to the playlist: Atomic by Blondie. I have this on so many playlists. I just find the ‘Oh, your hair is beautiful’ line so sexy.

TUESDAY

Yesterday, my laptop stopped being able to play sound. And then the screen went very dim (apparently because I am old, though I refuse to accept it, I like my screen brightness to be absolutely dazzling, so this was a very upsetting turn of events).

I spent a couple of hours trying to fix it. The 19yo spent another couple trying to fix it (“I don’t know what you’ve done, Ma. I’ve never seen anything like this before.”) and today I need to back it up and restore factory settings, but it’s not recognising the hard drive and Harry’s still asleep and waaah.