Scary monster

I've got pretty used to the loud noise of the tree fellers' (fellas'...) big machines over the past several months but Polly still cowers a bit when we hear them and speeds up somewhat. Today we saw this one in action and a while later it came down the lane after us at great speed. I just managed to get the dogs on their leads and out of its way when the driver saw us and slowed down. Once he saw we were safe he sped up again and this was the resultant dust storm. We all got covered and then, of course, it started to rain, in case we were thinking of just brushing the dust off. So Basil and Polly are once again West Highland Grey terriers and a bath is looking pretty unavoidable.

It's still raining as I type. Not sure what this means for the boys' cricket tonight; there was talk of parents making up the numbers though so rain might not be such a bad thing...


PS - Thanks for putting yesterday's bridge blip in the Spotlight! :o)