Heidi’s vocabulary has been increasing in volume rather than words. It is a loud rasping and babble at the moment, with lots of trying to work the breathing with the noise. Sometimes she does not get it quite right and she runs out of puff, like she has just been winded. Her little peepers bulge a bit, but she is working on that.

The weather has been quite grubby lately and she has been doing her Round Robin Tours with grace. Back from the moors she apent a day in her PJ’s (all day!!) and relaxed with Rachel. It is nice to pop in when I am passing in the day just to see her having a cuddle or a sleep, before I head out again.

This week she sat and watched the opening of the Olympic games with Rachel, and was quite happy to watch all the colour and noise on the Friday. She seems to like keeping an eye on the box. Her fish tank is doing well, though there has been an outbreak of white spot which has now been treated. Gerry is the one that has it, and Henry (the loach) has taken it up himself to start bullying him.

In view of the above, I bought a nursery/isolation tank today which floats in the tank to give Gerry a rest. The down side is that he is trying to get out all the time to see his friends. I will give him a day or so and see what happens. Rachel is not impressed with Henry’s loutish behaviour and I have heard her threaten him with a “watery grave” if he persists in this anti-social behaviour.

Yesterday saw us head over in to Newton Abbot where Rachel had her hair cut, back to spikey again. Heidi and I wandered around the market for a bit and I bumped into Naomi and her two children Noah and Martha. We used to work together a few years ago and she had followed Fred’s blog, and now keeps an eye on this one.

I am hoping that my article for the August/September edition of Wetherspoon News is out soon. I have done the text and the photographs and await a copy of the article before it goes to print. It’s getting late so I wonder whether I get a peek at the copy before it goes to print, if not hopefully no unexpected alterations in the body of the text.