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Good morning, Rusty!
A dull day so far......but I haven't been out as yet this morning.
I have the dog booked in for a bath and a trim at 10 o'clock, so there isn't time for both the walk and the journey over to the dog groomers.
It is high time she went as I have had to cut her fringe several times, so that she could see out!
We will go for a walk later on - it will give her the opportunity to get filthy ( and possibly smelly!) again!
That is certainly rather odd behaviour on the part of Pierrepoint to visit the grave of one of those whom he executed?
He must have hanged over four hundred people?
I wonder did he visit the graves of other than Ruth Ellis?
A strange situation......
Well, I had better get on.......
Have you anything planned for the day? Meeting one of the girls?

Good morning, Elle!
Great day here!
Not sure if Pierrepoint visited other graves.
He hanged an awful lot of folk. I think 10 or 12 in one day for war crimes. In later years he was against capital punishment!
Executed prisoners were buried within the prison grounds, but I think there were several bodies disinterred from Holloway for some reason. Ruth was re-buried at Amersham in Bucks.
There is a tragic tale of Ruth's son visiting her grave and desecrating her headstone then going home and killing himself. Awful!
Hope doggie enjoys the trim!
I am off out looking for a lamp!

Good afternoon, Rusty!
It has turned into another glorious day - very cold wind though!
I have just collected the dog from the groomers..........it takes about two and a half hours to bath and trim her.
She doesn't like the procedure, although I am told she is well behaved!
She always looks very relieved to see me!
Still, that's the job done for another two or three months!
Did you find a lamp to stand on your new bedside table?
What is it like?
Two clues for you from the Times QC today......
7A: Shopkeeper is more vulgar, we hear (6)
19A: On the radio totally divine (4)
(It seems we cannot escape them..........)

Hello, Elle!
Great day here, too.
7 is grocer/grosser.
I do not know the other one.
No lamp.
I shall wait until the tablewhatisit arrives.
That is a long time for the dog to be groomed?

Hi, Rusty!
Still a beautiful day here..... it was lovely out!
Have you been out for a walk?
Does that seem to be a long time for grooming? it 's pretty standard, I think?
I know some dogs larger than mine take even longer.
The end result does look good! She won't look like this for long though - she is a real tomboy, I've never known a dog who gets so muddy when she has the chance!
But never mind, she enjoys herself , that is the main thing!
The other clue.......
On the radio totally divine (4) is holy/ wholly
I must go and bring in the washing - this is the first time this year (!) that I have dried anything outside!

Good evening, Elle!
Been a fine day with me too.
Great day for drying a washing!
I had a walk for an evening paper.
Holy/wholly? At least it is not holy/olé!
How fared your cousin with the broken down car?
Any contact today?

Hi, Rusty!
We too have an evening paper! The London Evening Standard is a free paper available at the local Sainsburys, so most days my husband usually has a wander down to get it.
Today's Headlines tells us that we shall be having an overnight Tube service, on Friday and Saturdays, on the Jubilee and Victoria lines from August 5th.
Initially, five lines were meant to be running this service, but the others will be phased in gradually later on.
Not that any of this will affect us - the Tubes already run late enough for our needs!
And we are rarely up in London in the evenings anyway.
Now, my cousin........the AA man arrived and sorted her out........he managed to get her car going with jump leads but couldn't find any basic fault. He checked alternator output and battery strength but all seemed okay.
She got home safely, albeit extremely late!
Her car is booked in for a service tomorrow so hopefully if there is an underlying problem, it will get sorted!

Hello, Elle!
My evening paper is more like a comic.
Not much in the way of News in it.
Plenty in it for Horoscope enthusiasts, and TV fans.
I only got it to see the fields at Cheltenham.
The trophy I forgot is the Prestbury Cup.
Britain won it last year.
14 wins to Ireland's 13.
Well done the AA man. They are pretty good!
Your cousin should let the garage know what happened.
That way they may find the problem.
By all accounts, your Tube service sounds pretty good.
Mr Rogan will be very pleased!
Our buses go off just before midnight.

Good morning, Rusty!
We have yet another lovely morning! the gods must be on my side in keeping my newly bathed dog relatively mud-free!
Yes, we do have an excellent transport system in London; the Tube especially.
But remember that this does not affect us. We live about ten miles out of London, and the Tube services do not run out this far.
There has been talk of an extension out this way, but I don't know when this is scheduled to happen....or indeed, if it will.
It would certainly be convenient!
As it is, I need to get a mainline train up to London, before I can avail myself of the Tube services.
But then, I only go up to town to meet up with friends perhaps once or twice a month......otherwise I go to Bromley or Croydon.
Now, what plans for today?
I expect you will be watching the racing at Cheltenham?
(I have already set the recorder for Victoria's race on Friday!)

I go to Cheltenham 2 or 3 times a month rusty. Not this week, though! I know someone who lives at Prestbury.

Does anyone else think that the German Shepherd that won the class at Crufts is obscene? To say nothing of the bulldogs that can't breathe properly or breed without help, and the spaniels with skulls so small their heads hurt? Why is nothing done about this?

Please don't tell me I don't understand the dog world. Too right. But that Alsatian looks absolutely dreadful by any standards except Crufts. My bother had two, both with serious hip problems.

(Ducks quickly)