Shock Sighting In Wales

 

We had never seen anything like it.

The sun came out.

It made the mud caused by twelve hours’ rain the previous night become less muddy mud – enough to squelch and spray within a ten metre radius; not enough to lose a shoe.

Way hey!  Way hey!  Off to Rhyl for the day!

Rhyl has a beach.  We did beachy things, including trekking back up from the sea to the bin with dog dirt.  Twice.  I’m sure I lost weight.

We ate junk food, over-priced takeaway food, and our words –  we didn’t want to anger the sun so that it got into a huff and disappeared.  And it didn’t, until the rain took the nightshift.

The kids wasted their money in the arcades and the shops, as every child born since the advent of the railway allowed cheap seaside excursions has done.

Spud climbed a wall right to the top and was given a free stick of rock as a reward.  Later, the rain warped it and we threw it away.

The dogs loved their six-hour walk.

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The Hub was too exhausted to braai in the evening, despite spending most of the day sitting down on walls, benches and the occasional stranger, so we bought fresh cooked chicken, ham shanks, salad and bread for dinner.  Yummy, greasy finger food: perfect, and not a problem to clean up afterwards – we just stuck our hands out of the tent doorway and let the rain save us a walk to the utility block.

I was beginning to like Wales.

 

Joke 515

Dog sunny Day Afternoon (Photo credit: allert)

My friend Cliff forwarded this email doing the rounds.

Why Some Men Have A Dog And No Wife:

• The later you are, the more excited your dogs are to see you.
• Dogs don’t notice if you call them by another dog’s name.
• Dogs like it if you leave a lot of things on the floor.
• A dog’s parents never visit.
• Dogs agree that you have to raise your voice to get your point across.
• Dogs find you amusing when you’re drunk.
• Dogs like to go hunting and fishing. 
• A dog will not wake you up at night to ask, “If I died, would you get another dog?”
• If a dog has babies, you can put an ad in the paper and give them away. 
• A dog will let you put a studded collar on it without calling you a pervert.
• If a dog smells another dog on you, they don’t get mad.  They just think it’s interesting.
• If a dog leaves, it won’t take half of your stuff.

To test this theory:

Lock your wife and your dog in the garage for an hour.

Then open it and see who’s happy to see you.