Jess

Sunday mornings used to be a pleasant time, I'd go downstairs put the kettle on, let the chickens out, potter around the kitchen, maybe hang the washing out before returning to bed with much tea, to catch up on the news. In summer this might be at 6 am or earlier whereas in winter it needn't be until 7.30 or 8. All that has changed now, there is a tyrant in the kitchen who demands I am up by 7.30 and once up there is no possibility of sneaking back to bed, it is dressed and outside for a bracing walk.
Jess is a 14 week old doberman/collie puppy that we misguidedly brought into our home on Christmas Eve. This was a huge mistake, all the adults were already tired out with Christmas preparations, only to be kept awake all night by the puppy whining and scratching, terrified at being left on her own for the first time. She has gradually got better though, last Thursday was her first entirely fuss free night.

I know this is a very blurry picture but that is Jess, perpetual motion,
Her full name is Jessica Fletcher, named by a student daughter after Angela Lansbury's character in Murder She Wrote (don't ask me why), but I refuse to stand in the park shouting for Jessica Fletcher so she is just Jess to me.

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