Mr. C is going into hospital to be operated on on Monday, so is shielding right now. I dropped his Boots prescription off on the doormat and he thanked me warmly from a safe distance up on the first floor balcony as I was leaving.

Somehow, someone has lost (or rather found) a Dogue de Bordeaux in the neighbourhood. Also known as the French Mastiff, they’re were once used for wolf-baiting and according to Wikipedia, are ”claimed to have the largest head in the canine world in proportion to the rest of the body.”

According to the sign the local vet is taking care of it, and hopefully having more luck than Tom Hanks did in the movie Turner & Hooch the place where many of us know this breed.