….while our employers have a few days away in Baritz has had it’s moments. We have been really busy doing lots of things that we can’t do while they are here…eg re-organising Mrs N’s wardrobe, the larder, Mr N’s suit collection and riding boots, dragging all the silver out of the vault for the ‘silver cleaner’ who comes fortnightly etc etc. As well as that, we are at the height of the harvest season and so EVERYTHING has to be picked, given away/ stored/preserved or frozen……..and there is squigillions of it. We are feasting at the moment on fresh organic produce. See the cultivated blackberries, plus they are growing everywhere in the hedgerows. Strolling through the paddocks yesterday, we came across the hugest mushrooms we had ever seen, we have been eating the three of them for three nights so far!!!! We know now that “Jack and the Beanstalk” was a true story!
However, it’s not all blackberries and mushrooms. We had a hell of a scare on the first night of ‘sole charge’. When we let her out, Buela, the darling little dog, of the cutest proportions, buggered off into the dark night and wouldn’t come back no matter how we called, whistled, cajoled and tromped through the wet fields and forest in our jamas looking for her, thinking “oh! sh.. what will our employers say, when we tell them we have lost their little dog to which they are so devoted”!!!!!!!!! We know there are big scary badgers and foxes and squirrels out there, which eat little dogs, (well okay, not squirrels, but it could be revenge!) Through out the night she barked and gave everything in the woods hell, we didn’t sleep, ‘cause we were leaping up, trying to lure her back home when ever we heard her. She trotted home the next morning, looking pleased with herself, slightly reprobate and slept it off during the day AND still expects to have a relationship with us…….I don’t think so……..thanks for the Emails, love hearing from you. Lots of love xxxxxxxxx
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