Wednesday

Cow! Cow! Cow! This is not a greeting to someone who has behaved badly but rather my exclamation as I came around one of the corners on the way to the main road this morning. I'm always watchful for kangaroos on this section but have never given any thought to finding a cow on the road - although given the number of them in the area, it's strange that I haven't.

So what do you do if/when you find a cow on the road? Who do you ring? It's not a life-threatening emergency but if a car came around the corner, going too fast to stop in time, it could be. In the end, the resolution was quite simple ... a man stopped in his panel van, put on his hazard lights, left his driver's door open and chased the protesting cow off the road and into the paddock.- I couldn't see whether it was through the downed fence, or a gate. It was a good job and as soon as he'd done it, I felt the situation was under control enough to drive off - away from the position where I could flash approaching cars to warn them to slow down because there was livestock on the road - so it didn't become, as R would put it - dead stock.

It was another hot day here today - which means there has to be rain coming soon - it has been forecast - and they were right, it started this evening and we're hoping it will go on for a couple of days and fill the tank.

S is deep in the preparations for her procedure tomorrow but seems to be in good spirits - no doubt helped along by watching more episodes of RPA and that screaming show - and tonight's final of Junior MasterChef. We were both saying that we prefer the Junior version to the usual version and not just because the kids cry way less than the adults! It is great to see them being nice to each other and helping each other where they can - rather than plotting and scheming their way to the "top". In the end, S (I don't know why you argue with me) was right and Greta took out the title. Jack put on a brave face and said all the right things during the competition but I was just a bit disappointed with the way they had edited his comments about how he was feeling so positive about winning into the show. There were no similar comments from Greta and it either portrayed him as cocky and overconfident or was a (deliberate?) attempt to throw viewers off track.

The furries were feeling the heat this evening and were very low key. At one stage while S and I were sitting out the back folding washing (well, one of us was!) we had Pearl, Beazley and Maggie with us enjoying, as much as we were, the cool breeze that had sprung up.