Wacky Races

What’s this? I hadn’t a clue but there was one on the box.

Bertie’s claws are too long and are hurting his paws so Robert has turned his hand to canine chiropody. It’s one of the less serious problems Bertie has had.

There has been a change of signage on the route Robert takes driving to Chiswick House. So far I have had three fixed penalty notices (£65 each) but no doubt there are more in the pipeline. I’m for paying, Robert’s for fighting. My insouciance is perhaps because the sainted Kate has done my tax return. Nothing to pay this month or in January 2023 – most gratifying. To be clear, nothing extra to pay above tax deducted at source and apparently a refund in the pipeline.

Indy on Charing Cross Hospital, July 2022. Photograph, Nathalie Mahieu.

The young peregrine (Indy) is looking chipper. She disappears for a few days at a time but comes home to annoy her parents and look for some cached food – just like a teenager. Peregrines are so beautiful and in London it is good that they mostly eat pigeons and parakeets.

Who will succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative Party and become Prime Minister? For what it’s worth Rishi Sunak is brainy and doesn’t shirk hard work. (Boris the former but not the latter.) I’d like to see him as PM and Tom Tugendhat as Foreign Secretary. There’s a lot of mud slinging by the other contestants; Rishi and Tom are above this. It reminds me of Wacky Races.