Pretzel!

Had a visit from Pretzel and her mum - she (Pretzel) is coming to stay with us in August. That should be fun! She's no bother, and they get on fine. She doesn’t stand any of his macho nonsense, so he gives up.

Elizabeth took Archie out after he'd licked her face off. We make sure his beard's clean before she comes, but he'll often go and have a drink just before, so Elizabeth has a soggy wet mop to deal with. She doesn’t seem to mind.

I then watched the tennis final, which didn’t last long. All the pundits had picked Serena to win, but I knew Halep could run rings around her.

Alice (and Asha) from around the corner came for drinkies, because she's moving out of the area, prior to renting her flat, prior to going back to Perth, Australia. Elizabeth also stayed for drinkies and nibbles. Archie didn’t say a peep when he came in and found a big black lab in his house.

Though it was rather warm this evening, I did demonstrate the remote controlled fire. Asha disappeared for a wee while, so I investigated. She had pulled a box of chocolates down from a low shelf in the back bedroom and was about to rip into them. Labradors, eh?