Today is an organising day as I’m preparing to return to the UK tomorrow for my oldest pals stag do. Coincidentally he is marrying my sister so that keeps it all neatly in the family! The stag do is at the racecourse at Fontwell so I think I may need to keep off the beer until the opportunity to hand over vast sums of money to a bandit in a titfer tat has passed. Best laid plans and all that….I hope the medic event company I work for has plenty on this month!!

Quite aside from potentially losing my shirt at the races we also have to get our trusty old van through its mot. This also has potential to be expensive but Im hoping that keeping my fingers crossed and a big bag of doughnuts for the tester will work wonders for me. I know Judith Little Bowes is very hopeful for success with our mot test as we are bringing her new cooker back with us. The intention is to load the oven with red leicester and bacon to keep her up to favourable stock levels.

I already have quite a list of other goodies to bring back for people, several trays of baked beans and two thousand tea bags for example and knowing how these things tend to escalate Im hoping to still have room to bring back the insulation, timber, tools and bags of crap that are still clogging up our friends and relatives loft space, that I’ve actually gone back for. She’s like a little tardis our van so I dont really envisage a problem.

I think it proves that Roz is completely barking that our dog Tess now has her own facebook page. It is slightly worrying that Tess now has 12 friends all of whom (apart from one other dog - Tess’s best mate) are what would be considered normal people of normal intelligence but still wish to correspond with a dog. We’re not all locked up yet.

The chicks are doing well and growing very fast. They are getting their first experience of rain today after a week or two of absolutely lovely weather, but as I type the clouds are thinning and the sun seems to be trying to get a look in..