Still Whatever

Whatever-it-is-came back again last night. Same nasty smell, licked food bowl and upset chickens. TB joined in the fun by howling.

Allotment looks bad. More brown shrivelled patches. And that smell again. And today half the compost heap is spread around. Also the start of a hole under the chicken pen that He is upset about. (So were the chickens in the middle of the night.) Has moved the pen and nailed up the wire that had come loose.

NLF is growing rapidly but is still as ditsy as ever. Adores TB's tail and happily kills it for hours on end. TB has the patience of a saint - or a kindly geriatric beagle with little feeling remaining in the end of its tail - and just lies down so NLF can reach. Got called in for dinner last night and stood up slightly too fast for NLF who was still attached.