Desperate Times episode. Just more and more sinister and fascinating by the minute.
Apart from Eve, what happened today.
1) Dog has horrible, persistent and bloody diarrhoea. Vet visit with afflicted one on short leash in one hand, walking stick in other. Bit wobbly. Scared of being knocked down in waiting room by dog v cat fracas. A downcast looking girl had an animal in a cage- cat?- and I discerned, hovering near her to take a photo of a poster for bowel cancer fun run obstacle race at South Milton Sands, that she was sniffing. Put down/euthanasia situation looming? Vet surgery can be most upsetting place.
Also ran into girl I know to be getting a horrible divorce. Seemed so happily married when I first met her. Extraordinary how these things unravel. She said she is worried she is losing her mind and had just been to a kick boxing class, bursting into tears while laying into a punchbag. Poor thing. I suggested she get on the train, get up to London and have a one off consultation with a mega lawyer I know.
We stood exchanging details amid the waiting owners, furry patients bags of doog food, rows of colourful leads and collars for sale. “He needs a good whacking” I concluded “The family law Solicitors in Newton Abbott , picked from phone book simply won’t do”
2) Then – walk, physio, rest more physio. Later eased self painfully behind wheel of car to collect River Sprite for her drama class – We passed some Jersey cows in parkland “Best milk in the world” I said and I should know. Grew up on that hoof- in -bucket stuff . Churn by the back door supplied by the farm. Milk stoll warm. Not a whiff of pasteurization
After drama class and once home, River Sprite rode bareback with diarrhoea dog as escort. She had mobile and satellite tracker on board. Gone a good hour- followed her progress on my phone..doing physio the while.
Beautiful summer evening. Walked barefoot on lawn. “Must do different textures when doing walk practice” as physio says.
Meadowsweet coming out. Foxgloves. Elderflower. Himalayan Balsam.
The River Files 