15/10/23

The mistress disappeared yesterday (sat) and all was quiet and we were sitting here having a great talk about all sorts of Gnome business. We watched Zeus wander by from time to time. He makes a terrible noise crunching his biscuits, and as for his water, he drinks from a special cup. How crazy is this just out the windows to the patio he has a great big dish of water the mistress keeps topped up. Jeepers he drinks a lot of water. 

This afternoon (sat) we heard a vehicle turn up then the key went in the door. We knew it wasn't the mistress as she would have come through the garage. It was His Lordship. How strange he was supposed to be playing golf. He even took a photo of Zeus and sent the picture to the mistress. It was his way of saying "Hey, I have arrived".

The wind blew up yesterday, and overnight. The Mistress was worried about the shade houses, and whether they were still standing this morning. One was ok but the other had issues in the previous strong wind and didn't fare well. They sorted it yet again until the next big wind. It appears some people, still don't yet have power, and others lost roofs on their homes and sheds. Crickey I am glad we are ok here. 

Trixie and I wandered down to the road this afternoon and spotted a tree had been chopped beside the footpath. They left the trunk about 2 meters high and no branches. Looks weird if you ask me. Oh well, they must have known what they were doing. A neighbor was out in the garden when we tried to go back. OMG, what are we to do. His Lordship and the Mistress could be back anytime. 

Trixie suggested we hide in a garden in a bush until the coast was clear. Oh, heck this lady took ages. We kept checking on her, but she had these huge bags she was filling, and she looked very tired. We almost wanted to help her but decided against it. She might call the police and then where would we end up. Nope, back to the bush for us. 

We saw the Mistress's car Hoon down the drive and His Lordship was driving. Hey, it's her car, why is he driving it? They are going to notice we are not on the bench. What shall we do here? I guess there is nothing except to brace ourselves for the blast later. The lady cleaned up her mess and disappeared, so time to head back down the drive. We hid around the corner of the house by the patio and watched the two of them cook dinner. His Lordship does do his bit to help the Mistress. This morning she got him on the vacuuming. He kept saying to rest the foot so she asked if he would do this while she cleaned the bathroom. Then she sat down to rest. She announced to him the bruising was now coming out. No wonder it has been so sore. 

Hey, they went out again tonight. We then headed inside when we heard the car Hoon down the drive. Phew from our position I don't think they noticed we were not on the bench. They came home and nothing was said. These love birds only have eyes for each other, and we reckon they didn't notice our absence.