28th April, 2011

For my part I suppose I should elaborate on my reference to Bob killing two birds with one stone, made earlier this week. It was like this. We went to have lunch with my brother and his family the other day. Visits by his kin have not been without incident in the past. They have a troublesome relationship with their elderly neighbour who owns an adjoining field on which my father’s spaniel once dispatched one of her prize flock of chickens. I have to say I thought my father behaved admirably. He offered her a fiver and when that was cursorily refused, returned with a replacement hen. So it was with a sense of developing shock that we sat enjoying lunch last Sunday when we saw Bob jump over a fence into the lady’s field, disappear for a few seconds before reappearing from behind a hedge, on all fours, in full view of absolutely everyone, scuttling into the middle of the field where he pounced on an unsuspecting crow. The poor bird had a broken wing, he told us in explanation of his actions, but it had a more terminal injury after Bob’s administrations.

Well, I’m glad I got that off my chest. Otherwise it has been a bit of a dull old week. I was busy yesterday afternoon though. An email arrived from one of Hen’s University friends....

Hi Dave ( you what???????!!!)

Hen gave me your email addresses to keep you up to date with all the house stuff. I'm sorry i haven't been in contact sooner but i thought i lost the addresses (just had to rummage through my conversations with Hen over facebook!) The first house we found fell through unfortunately, but we have found another one in Burley, which is just on the edge of Hyde Park.

Etc etc. Long and short of it was within an hour of receiving this email I was £1,100 poorer for the part I was required to play in helping to secure the lease on a house for Hen and her fellow Leeds students which left me wondering whether I might be better off investing in a property UP there. So I registered on a website and this is the only thing that has come through so far.....

Nomura bonus season is upon us so I probably shouldn’t be too disparaging. David Moor Estate Agents may have the last laugh.