Another day at the office

Eees me, my iingleesh is good, I learn it from a bookch. Sorry, been one of those days. I was covering for Steve, my colleague who covers the top end of the district yesterday and when I got into work this morning, I was informed that I was it. He had decided to take another day off. I think it is fishing that draws him away. Having said that, it is four days into duck shooting season, so that could be the reason. i have decided not to bother shooting for the first week. This is for two reasons. First, the price of the licence comes down 50% after the first week and second, I think at heart I am a fair weather gunner. It was foul, no pun intended, on opening day. The rain was tipping down and that is not my idea of a great day. The bonus here is that once you have your licence, it covers you for all game birds so I may be able to get some shooting done on the forestry blocks for quail and pheasants. Bless him, Inky (the would be gun dog), was so excited and a little uncertain as to why there were the sounds of shotguns going off yet I wasn't holding one. This could prove interesting when we go out for real as anyone else shooting nearby is likely to loose anything they shoot or have a scrap dog on dog as they try to sort out to which gun the bird should go to. We'll see.

Anyway, today I had a lot of driving around, getting between A and B, then no sooner do you arrive, then someone at the other end of the district phones to make a complaint of some sort. Today, I had a nasty unpredictable dog to deal with. The owner had finally had enough and asked me to remove it and have it destroyed. I wouldn't normally do this but I think he genuinely didn't want to have it killed. A handsome pitbull x ridgeback, with the unfortunate habit of biting people in the family out of the blue. Complaints about a dog bite over the weekend and then barking dogs and a dog attack on another dog almost topped the day when I decided to slink over to Te Aroha and pick up my spare pair of shorts. I was just outside Te Aroha when I was summonsed back to Matamata to get a dog roaming in a primary school. By the time I had put that in the pound and shot home for a bite to eat, I had the paperwork to do and update the computer system. Which bought me smartly up to 5pm.

M is still working hard on a presentation she has to do tomorrow and I have started supper. Now engrossed in the keyboard, M appears to have taken over the reins in the kitchen. Well, I'll love you and leave you all, it's time for me to line my stomach walls.