Housesitting for Fliss and Sue (29^th July 2007)

Fliss and her mum (Sue) were going to Craig’s wedding this weekend. Craig is a son of Sue and is about 34 years old.

It was very quiet in the house while they were away. Reminded me of when I housesit for mum and dad.

Friday

Woke up 10:00.
Had breakfast.
Met Liam, a friend of the family since 1998 or 1999.
Sue’s first time out of the house probably since last year.
Lovely sunny day.
Waved them off about 11:00.
Played with Scrappy and his new rubber tyre.
Washed up some crockery and started cooking lunch.
Played Worms Armageddon. (The organisation of their website was simplified after my feedback. They went with a more radical and effective change to what I suggested, which is cool.)
Ate lunch.
Played fetch with Scrappy and a rubber bee-hive chew toy thing.
Played some more Worms Armageddon.
Started cooking dinner at 17:30.
Lonliness started getting to me, compounded by there being nobody around to express this to. (A vicious circle.)
Sent Fliss a text asking how the event was.
Watched some FIA WTCC.
Washed up at 19:00.
Watched some more TV.
Went to bed at 21:45.

Woke up at 8:30.
Snoozed through to 10:30.
Had breakfast.
Watched more FIA WTCC.
Played fetch for over 1 hour with Scrappy.
Fliss and Sue arrived back about 16:00 with: Kirsty (met briefly a couple of years ago).Dave (her boyfriend) and Liam.
Sue was very appreciative of me housesitting. It had meant a great deal to Craig for Sue to be there and many other guests were very pleased to see she’d made it there.
Fliss had gotten ill on the way back but still thanked me several times.
Got a lift back with Liam after he dropped off Kirsty and Dave.
Successfully made small-talk with him for the whole journey back. I gained this skill at college but thought I might have lost it. So this was cool.

Unpacked my stuff when I got back, then pumped up my bicycle’s tyres and went for a 30 minute cycle ride. Then I ate dinner and blogged this.