Thursday

 I made a quick trip to Harbour Town at lunchtime today to collect my new shoes which are now travelling in the back of the car and will eventually make it from there to the house.  

Tink must have suspected there was something exciting there because she ran over to greet me as soon as I drove in the gate.  Mind you, she has been doing the "meet and greet" a bit lately - and I hate to say it, but she's currently better at it at the moment than Pearl. But I'm not fussy ... as long as someone runs out to do it, it will be okay. Pearl at least barked when I drove in - or so S reports and she would know because Pearl was with her - watching as she folded up the washing!  She was being a wash dog for a chance. 

M had a draw in at The Big House this evening and was taking Mouse with her.  Unfortunately the draws were every half hour so they had to stay in the Casino because there wasn't enough time to go anywhere between the draws. (It will be marginally better on Sunday when there are draws on for all members and you have to be there at 2pm, 4pm, 6 pm and 8 pm.  Someone may have forgotten to mention that this should be fun - but there's little chance of that now the gelato barrow has disappeared from the foyer of The Big House - even though the promotion on Sunday is called "double scoop". I don't think so. 

There were no ice-cream questions at Trivia at the local tonight - although, for the regular players, there was a question for next week:  what elements are Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 on the Periodic Table?  S and I looked it up while were there, waiting for the final scores to be tabulated and cross checked.  

We were one lot of "honest" away from second prize.  In the first round, Nikki had marked one of our incorrect answers as correct and the score tracked through.  We would have been equal second had I not said anything but if we're going to win a prize (first, second, secondlast), I'd prefer it to be on our own merits. S keeps pointing out that we are one of the very few tables there with only two people - so it's harder for us because we don't have a brains trust.  But it's also good fun - and S knowing that that the sacred bird of Peru is the Condor earned us another six-pack. Now we just have to work out what to do with them.