Blue skies at last

Today (by today I mean Thursday because I am posting this after midnight - I'm not doing very well with my "early nights" resolution!), the rain stopped and the sky was a beautiful watery blue colour, as if washed very clean by days of constant deluge. The ground is still very wet, it must be saturated! I took Jack to the vet in the morning and she said that the lymph node which was infected is getting smaller which is a very good sign; it confirms that it has been an infection and not a tumour. He is to get another check up in a couple of months. Jack was not at all happy about the outing but was delighted to be home again and to get a nice fresh bowl of chunks. Later I went over to see Jackie and her gorgeous boys; she has broken her foot badly and it is in plaster. We went out to a soft play centre which was very smart - a big improvement on fifteen years ago when I was frequenting similar places. It has a cafe which serves delicious healthy food - I had a huge baked potato with tuna mayonnaise and coleslaw - and it was very clean and well maintained. Finn and Noah had a grand time and Jackie and I had a good catch up. I am keen to keep taking exercise, so I decided that with the sky still blue I would take the opportunity to go for a walk. I walked from home via Burnside (where I called in to the estate agent to let them know that the For Sale sign at Mum's house has blown down and broken in the storm) to Rutherglen, where I got a train home. The walk took 50 minutes and I felt really energised. The timing was good because by the time I got home at five it was dark. In the evening Brian and Christine came round for drinks and we had a very pleasant chat and a laugh. Later I finished my current book; Armadillo by William Boyd. Although it was quite interesting I didn't think it was quite up to his usual high standard.