Normal service resumed.

It is cold and wet in the UK. We return to find it warmer but equally wet here.

Sophie tries to give us her cold shoulder ' How could you have left me ? ' treatment but she's too happy to be standoffish for long.

On leaving the kennels Bob amazes us by literally flying into the back of the car. Can a dog leap twenty feet ? 

Spaghetti for dinner. Sophie wolfs it down. Bob, comically, savours it strand by strand.

By nine the angelic duo are sound asleep.

Normal service has been resumed at The Rickety Old Farmhouse