Gone AWOL

R: "Where do you think you've been?"

E: "Err, just saying hello to those blackberry pickers"

R: ""No you weren't, you ran off ..... I came to find you but you were a pin prick on the horizon... and, we were just saying how good you have been staying close by. I blame that nose of yours, we SAW you hurtling after the hares on the field, no match for them by the way and in the meantime we've all been waiting around for you to come back..."

E: "Whatever - I need a bit of a lie down"