As Hen's phone bills continue to flood in shockingly there was a stark example of the difference between boys and girls this week. We have furnished 11 year old Bob with a pay as you go phone enabling him to get in touch when he gets back from an away match and needs collected from school. These children can't win really. We berate Hen for spending hours on the phone and sending copious text messages, but Bob, although a chatty sort fact to face, is chastised for his brevity. His last text home read "Cancelled". From which Sophie was supposedly meant to infer that cricket had been rained off and so get her backside down to school immediately! This she did but with a warning for him that if this was as communicative as he was going to get when away from home then she would be thinking twice before sending him off to boarding school. Hen may have her exasperating moments but a text from her in similar circumstances would have been a lot more entertaining and read, I imagine: "Hi mom....gr8 news....match cancelled (not that she was ever in a team) so Ive gone into town on a shopping trip ( and for a quiet cigarette I have no doubt ). Can you pick me up in a couple of hours time. Love u loads xxxxxxxxxx" Warning to Bob was water off a ducks back though. He went away this week on a PGL outing departing with insisting to Sophie that she shouldn't even begin to think that he might consider calling in from the wilds of Shropshire.
He is coming back to a rather different household from the one he left first thing Monday morning though and has missed all sorts of excitement. The bad news for him is that the hare skin which he had carefully and bloodily skinned off one of Twiggy the lurcher's victims, pinned to a square of wood and covered copiously with salt and left in a wood shed stinking to high heaven and attracting a horde of flies, has been eaten (thankfully) by said lurcher. As much as I am relieved by its disappearance he is going to be livid. On the other hand, huge news is that one of his chickens has made a miraculous reappearance with five tiny chicks in tow! So sweet. Two yellow, two blackish ones and a tiger stripe. Names to follow in the next scintillating episode.
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