September 21

Today I get a message from Destiny Man:

DM: Hello z this limerick?

Me: Yes, it is.

DM: May you please assist me, do you guys have a pool?

Me: We do, but unfortunately it is only half full at the moment.

DM: Guess it's not functional?

Me: Not really.

DM: Perfect! How much z ur place if im there for like 5 hours.  Room and sitting outside.

Me: It's the same price as for the night.

DM: Hmm.

Destiny Man was obviously destined for somewhere else as that is the last I hear of him.  I wonder why he was so excited to find the pool is not functional, why he wanted to only be here for five hours and what he meant by 'hmm'. The water situation has been so dire here that we could not keep topping up the pool.  Ellie jumps in from time to time and so does Tallulah, so it's good to cool off in, but I wouldn't say you can really swim in it.

The good thing is that the lack of water means that we have not been inundated with frogs this year. Occasionally, we hear them in the distance, but we are saved the hassle of having to take 30-40 frogs out a night.  Our neighbours must be missing them too: John used to throw them over the wall into their garden in return for the rubbish they threw over into our garden.  I am sure they thought it was juju.