Sunday, 23 September 2012

Rainy day

Today it's rained all day long.  It hasn't mattered as I needed to spend most of the day studying anyway.  This morning I've been making sense of the formulae of ionic compounds and after lunch I worked on anions and cations revision.  I decided I needed a break.  Carlos wanted a bath and Amber was surgically attached to the television watching a Dungeons & Dragons DVD.

So I took Dogbreath for a walk.  I'd been cooped up all day and needed the fresh air.  It was raining but neither of us were particularly bothered, and we headed off towards the Council-owned farm that's not 10 minutes from my house.


It was overcast and really not that pretty but I got that wonderful uplifting feeling of being in the outdoors when it seems that all is right with the world.


There was no-one else around (unsurprising when you consider the weather) which was great because Dogbreath can be a bit grouchy with other dogs.  It makes walks less stressful if it's just us.


 I got home and rubbed Dogbreath dry with a towel.  The smell of wet dog always reminds me of my (dead) grandparents succession of mongrels that we always seemed to take for walks in the pouring rain when I was a child. I'm now snuggled up in my warm house, with the sound of D&D cartoons drifting faintly up the stairs, with a steaming mug of tea and an afternoon of chemical bonding ahead of me.  Ahh!  Good times!

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