What notable things happened today?

My youngest child, Lucy, and I went to the beach with my son, his fiancée, and their 2-year-old daughter. Our dog Cotton also came, as usual – she absolutely loves the beach.

This was Cotton’s first time to wear her new harness, and because I didn’t tighten it properly, she escaped and took off up the beach.

My son ran after her, and she doubled back. She zig zagged, this way and that way, and over and back.

I was in a total panic!

I started to scream ‘chicken’ at the dog. Over and over as loud as I could; ‘chicken… chicken… chicken.’

The 2-year-old thought it was all mighty fun; she jumped up and down, clapping her hands, as her mother went into a knot from laughing.

Lucy stood watching as if she had just been dropped on another planet.

Eventually, Cotton came to me just as I was on my knees pulling a little bag of corn flakes from my handbag. She didn’t seem to care that I had no chicken as promised because she loves her doggie treats (corn flakes) almost as much!

I know I looked like a lunatic. Actually, we all looked like lunatics! But we’re still laughing about it! 😂

Cotton is like a child in our house, and we’d really hate for anything to happen to her.

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Thank you for reading, but before you leave…

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Set in a gossipy small town in Ireland at a time when marriage is for keeps and sexuality is repressed, Secrets in the Babby House is a family saga over three decades that starts in 1956. It is a story of love, deception, and stolen diaries filled with sins and secrets.