We had a road trip this morning, to take the scanner 50 miles to the people who were going to see if they could fix it.
I shut the Girls in, and found Lewis in their Run. He refused to come out, so I shut the door and came back to the house. DH tried to get him out, but he decided yo go and sit under one of the Cubes where he couldn't be easily reached. Even treats being shaken didn't persuade him to move.
DH got a garden cane to poke through the bars, to persuade him to move. I went into the run to block access to the Cube area (after he'd been ejected) and to try and catch him. Eventually, he was out, and we locked up and set off.
It was a stunningly beautiful morning. Dry, warm, but with an autumnal edge. It took us an hour to reach our destination, amd the scanner (who really should have a name) was left in their care.
We took a brief walk around the town, which was mainly antique shops. We didn't actually go in any shops, not even the haberdashers. DH wasn't too enthusiastic about walking round the town in the first place, had less than no interest in browsing inside a shop, and most definitely hadn't signed on for hanging around while I browsed in a haberdashery shop.
We visited here on the canal once, many years ago. We didn't get in to the towm, we walked along a leafy path directly to a pub. We couldn't find the pub, not that we looked that hard. We did pop down to the canal to see if we could work out where we had moored, but we must have done so a little outside town.
DH did agree to go and have breakfast somewhere, but wasn't really happy about doing so. Lockdown, with it's not going anywhere, has not changed some things :-). Normally (well, whatever Normally means now) I would have made the whole trip on my own, but my car is Making Noises, and I didn't want to travel too far in it.
On the plus side, the breakfast was good, the little cafe was lovely, and it has made me realise that I really DO need to get my car looked at. A job for next week.
Back home now. It's still sunny, but it is now windy, cold and a little damp. The Girls were fractious, and were all hanging around the autodoor waiting for it to open. As soon as the little gate began to rise, they started forcing their way out. Then they thundered down the garden together, racing for the best spot by the Pampas......where they promptly sat down, and started preening.
