Ah. Back from a nice evening of pub followed by a nice restaurant. Adnams of course. Then at the restaurant, smoked sea trout with samphire followed by guinea fowl two ways, slow roast and confit.

Ok. Back to silliness.

Yep. My greyhound, known on Mudcat as the good professor, in racing circles as Fridays Touch and the Musket household as Rio is bloody intelligent actually. He is top dog and no mistake. Ten mins from now, he will be strutting round Southwold whilst I carry his shit for him in a bag.

Politics is complicated for him. Born in Kilkenny, raced in Dundalk, his take on life is Irish to say the least but the gravy bone lobby has his vote, as does the campaign to allow dogs to fart without being kicked out from the comfortable fireside rug whilst we are trying to watch telly.