Happily Ever After

Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running

Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.

Relaxing with the Cheetah

by admin - 17:05 on 12 March 2010

Being employed – voluntarily – for only three days a week, you'd imagine that workday stress would be a thing of the past. Not so.

This has not been a fun week at the headquarters of the Great Northern Media Empire. If the crew of the Ocean Guardian strike a gusher off the Falklands I could be tempted to retire early, but there's still no news from the South Atlantic. The value of my share portfolio continues to decline. Life can be hard.

It's tough for Matchgirl too. She returned from Shetland yesterday and shortly after that suffered the post-flight migraine that can no longer be regarded as coincidence. She's clearly allergic to FlyBe's teeny, propeller-powered island-hopper.

Her recuperation today has demanded the sofa and daytime TV, of which I'm not a fan. Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, antique auctions and property shows are bad enough, but Deal Or No Deal is the devil's work.

So after an exciting trip to Tesco I escaped to the sanity of my Mac where I improved my Photoshop skills by turning three Namibian cheetah snaps into one artistic image. All being well, more real photographs (although probably not of cheetahs) will be taken this weekend.

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