Frustrating day on the end of a phone for much of it. Oh how I hate listening to that meaningless mantra 'Your call is important to us... Blah blah'.

The washing machine man was coming today, so nipped out with Archie about 8am... Then I checked my mobile. 'He will be with you between 7:30 and 10:00am'...

Oops. No card to say he'd been. Waited till 10:30, no sign of him, so I rang the office - hung on for AGES. To cut a tedious long story short, I spent another extended period trying to get through this afternoon, and the upshot is we made another appointment on Wednesday as nobody could get hold of the engineer from this morning. I was rather annoyed, as it was a glorious day and we couldn't go out. However JR took Archie out for a big frolick on the Links this afternoon while I was still on the phone, tearing my hair out.

I invented a 'leftover roast dinner pie' for tea tonight. If each individual item tastes nice, then it should taste nice if you bung 'em all together and stick mashed spuds on top. No?

Archie played with his new Kong toy. It's weighted at the bottom, so it wooshes around, spilling out treats from the wee hole in a random fashion - drives him crazy! He pushes it with his nose, and charges round like a mad thing. I didn't torture him today with things round his neck.

PS New shoes arrived. Wrong size. There seems to be a discrepancy between UK and EU sizings that I've never had before. *sigh*