Goose Bumps

Bliper Nogbad is responsible for a day when I got nothing important done.

It had started quite well, fill the washing machine, do the chickens, muck the horse field, walk the dogs, hang out the washing, feed the dogs ..... and then it started.

A tweet landed on the mobile originating from Nogbad suggesting I join the syndicate he is putting together to bid for the BBC weather contract following the publication of the long overdue parliamentary investigation into the1987 Michael Fish hurricane forecast. Nogbad's plan is to have outposts to regularly report in with the actual weather. I agreed straight away even if my input is useless, given that perhaps 1 day a decade does Bavarian weather land up in Kent.

Guilty about the easy money, I sent off the first report with a picture of bathing geese. This brought a storm of protest from his followers in England and Scotland suffering from rain and cold. They couldn't believe it. So sent more photos of swimming pool lined with Pimms glasses and plates of fresh cream cheese strawberry cake in the shade of an umbrella. This simply made the situation worse and resulted in my being fired!

The geese in the meantime are now spending almost the entire day in the temporary pond. When they first came, I led them down to the stream but they showed no interest whatsoever. Then a week or so ago I filled the pond and they pretty much ignored it. I had put a few excess water plants from the "real" pond in to make it a bit more attractive. That seemed to do the trick. However, they have now managed to decimate the plants finding it a wonderful pass time ripping away the leaves and nibbling at the roots.

However, the main thing they don't discover the swimming pool or "real" pond. Weather forecast says we should be back to 30°C by Thursday and continuing throughout the weekend.