R's rue

This Sunday night blogpost was pre-empted by England's victory over Senegal in the last sixteen stage of The World Cup in Qatar. We beat them by three goals to nil and now have the daunting task of playing France in the quarter finals next Saturday. Senegal is a country of some 17.5 million people situated on the west coast of Africa between Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau with Mali to the  east. The capital of Senegal is Dakar with a population of 1.1 million. I had a good look around Dakar courtesy of Google Streetview and I was surprised at the amount of modern development and the sense of economic well-being that the imagery exuded.  The average life expectancy for Senegalese citizens is 67.1  years, ten years behind Algeria and ten ahead of Somalia. A former French colony, 97% of Senegal's population are Muslim. The country's economy is mixed with significant parts played by fishing, mining, agriculture and tourism. There is so much more to be ...

 An hour, almost two,  after a walk, Roger started to get restless and odd. He had found something to chew on in a discarded carrier bag  at the lane border and even though I hadn’t witnessed it, I’d seen such symptoms before.  18 years ago my first Welsh had eaten chocolate and was incredibly poorly,  The poor lad vomited and opened his bowels all over Bluebell’s back seat I’m glad he did A day at the vets, is not what either of us wanted but hours and hours  later , after activated charcoal treatment, various blood tests and close observation he was allowed home looking stressed and tired and upset and I drove him home looking stressed and tired and upset ……but relieved  from Going Gently https://ift.tt/0BZDPIG