A Horseradish
Saturday 26th February 2022 10:01pm [Edited]
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Today I went to see my mother in her care home. They said she had probably gone out as her trolley frame with wheels wasn't there. She is normally gone for a good hour so as to terrify with her ranting lots of random strangers.
Her home is on the edge of a council estate but behind it are the downs so I skipped along a path to look at the views and any animals. I thought I saw some of the docile cows in the distance but couldn't get there as I had to lean on a hedge and burst into tears.
Suddenly a woman of 63 in gumboots appeared from the woods where people secretly enjoy relations. She says "I sincerely hope your dog is not off the leash". I says to her "I don't have a dog. I'm waiting for my mother to be returned to her home by the police and looking at them nice cows in the distance".
She says back to me "those aren't cows ; they are sheep and I am an official sheep counter". Jane I think she said she was called. "How many are there?" I asked her. "38" she replied.
I did go over to look at them and could only see 37. Ever since I have been worried that Janet will go there tomorrow and think that I put one on my back and brought it home from the downs with me. Or was it goats and not sheep which would have made Janis a goat counter? The one thing I do know is that it definitely wasn't cows.