Looking for Luke

What a lazy, fire and TV on sort of day. For me anyway - JR is having an afternoon cooking and baking flurry.

I took Archie out again - there was no pulling on the lead, and it's much easier to have him walk on my spare hand side. Then Kerri and Luke came to take him out for a couple of hours. He came back so mucky, but he was due a bath anyway.

I watched Andrew Marr (on iplayer - 9am is too early!), The Big Question, Wanted Down Under, Homes Under the Hammer, Escape to the Country - all very watchable of you're feeling lackadaisical. Then the best one - Spy in the Wild. The most amazing footage captured by using remote cameras inside animal 'puppets'. We even got carried along in the mouth of a mother crocodile, taking her newly hatched babies to the river, unaware that one was not her baby. There was so much amazing camerawork, I'm so looking forward to the next episode. The TV fun continues tonight, with Countryfile, Antiques Roadshow and even the completely bonkers Sherlock. Well worth the TV Licence today!

Then came Songs of Praise, which I don't usually watch, but tonight it was about Mary Anne Macleod, who was born on Lewis. Her father was a crofter, and she was the youngest of ten children - so life was hard. When she was 18 she emigrated to America, where she met and married Fred Trump. Yes, her son is now the President Elect of America. Whatever you think of him, it's a great story.

My forebears are McLeods from Lewis. Who knows, The Donald may be a distant relative...

Edit: Sherlock was even more annoyingly stupid than normal. Switched it off!.