Wednesday 12 August 2020

A very large, very pink seahorse ...

 ... named Samantha is perched on top of the sun lounger cushions in the pool house.

When she first arrived she had long eyelashes above her doe eyes, but they seem to have disappeared in the energetic play of the last few days. A pool overflowing with three Dutch teenage girls is not a tranquil place.

Point number four in my carefully prepared COVID-19 notes, which explains to guests that everything they bring into the cottage must leave with them at the end of their holiday or go in the rubbish, may just have been circumnavigated.  I can't see Samantha fitting in their car.  And her doe eyes are much too irresistible to have her end up in the waste bin. 

She may well stay in the pool house all day today.  Finally, after weeks of drought, this morning's leaden skies are reluctantly letting a few fat splashes of rain fall.

4 comments:

  1. You'd need a pretty bug car for Dutch parents, three Dutch teenagers and Smanatha!

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    1. It's not going to happen! Eleven hours home with all of them squashed in the back! Finally it's rained properly this evening. Joy pf joys.

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  2. Samantha could be deflated and rolled up to be exported. A bike innertube valve grafted on and be restored to beauty and use back home! However I think that you would be rather pleased if she stayed. Lesley

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    1. You're right Lesley - on both counts. :) Mind you, I'm not sure whether it would be kind to have Samantha rolled up in a corner somewhere in a suburban house near Rotterdam!

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