A new collar

and it's a lot more comfortable than that Elizabethan thingy.

Ernie's HIM bought it for Ernie who didn't need it, so he's lent it to me, which is very kind.

I'm looking a bit cross because someone had the temerity to walk past my garden.  OK so it was in the street, but it's still past me, and I can't let that go unchallenged.

Once I got my bark out (as it were) I felt ever so much better, and I really didn't miss her all that much, even though she was out most of the afternoon looking at orchids, of all things. 

Actually I was asleep for most of the time, but we won't tell her that.