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17 July

Today is weight day, I’m 15st 11lbs, that’s no change since the last one, whenever that was. A bit disappointing really, but there you go, it happens. Today we had planned to go to Formby to have a look for the red squirrels and get some new shots of them. From there we would have gone on up the road to Southport, a place we like. Well, I set the alarm for 6am and we woke up, but neither of us were up to doing much at all, or even trying to.

Right now we will have to review any trips out if it means an early start, even more so now that Jan is the only driver here. As it is, we’ll just go a local run out today, to Astley Book Farm. We’ve not been there for some time now so it should be a good few hours. It’s not much but a whole heap better than sitting and having a telly-day. I do like the book farm because, well, it’s a second hand book shop, who can’t be impressed with that? We’ve bought a good number of books there in the past, mainly for when I was doing my OU studies, but I’ve also bought a few fiction books too. Looking forward to that now. Oh yes, I should be able to get a lot of new photo’s up there too. One more reason to go there, they sell excellent coffee.

Have you read The Book Thief? Once you get over the strange layout of the story, it’s not too bad really. It’s the story of a young Jewish girl who is taken to foster home to live with strangers. Her mum disappears after dropping the girl off. On their journey they stop off to bury the girl’s brother who died on the train. At the funeral she finds a black book lying in the snow and picks it up and keeps it, even though she can’t read. That is book theft number 1. There’s a back story there though, and that is it’s all taking part in 1939 Germany, and we all know what that could mean for young Jewish girls, and our heroine is just one of them.

Maxi is not a happy budgie right now. The temperature in here has gone up and so Jan closed him up and opened the back door to get some fresh air flowing through the place. We normally open up his cage as the first thing we do after getting up, so shutting him up quickly has upset him a wee bit. He’s getting a bit quieter now, but who would think that a budgie could throw a wobbler? I think Kile has taught him to wolf-whistle too and we get quite a few of them now in amounts all the other chatter he comes up with.

That first time we both went to Mallorca, we began dreaming of moving out there to live, and I’m sure that if we had the funds to do so then, we would have been there by now. We’re not, so that tells that story! It’s still a dream though. Anyway, we were looking for something to watch on telly one time and one of the Escape to … shows. We’ve never really thought they were worth watching but we decided to give that one a go … opps, now we watch loads of them. What we have now come to realise that the dream is still there and the itch is getting a lot more intense. But we have decided that France is out; Spain is certainly top of the list right now, but we are watching one in Northern Italy; we’ll see. Whatever, health services would be on top of our list though …

So, a photo then …

A café in Inca, Mallorca.

Today’s funny …

 Customer: Waiter, what's your name?
Waiter: George, but everyone calls me pool cue.
Customer: Why do they call you that?
Waiter: Because I work much better with a tip.