Let's go fly a kite

It's been a tad on the blowy side today. Our fence seems to have survived so we don't have sheep among the dogs or dogs among the traffic. The greenhouse is also intact - hurrah! Today was also the day for the dustmen and recyclers to do their rounds, so last night everyone had dutifully put out their binsacks and boxes of bottles and newspapers. The wind had a lovely time, bowling the binsacks down the street like tumbleweeds and filling the air with sheets of newspaper, like flocks of enormous birds. The dogs thought this was terribly exciting and spent a lot of their on-lead time leaping into the air to catch these strange things whilst I tried to avoid the falling branches and rooftiles which threatened to decapitate me. In fact at one point one of them leapt so enthusiastically that if they'd been on extending leads I might well have ended up flying a dog-shaped kite.