Returning to Work

I am very concerned! I am beginning to suspect that there may be some kind of plot by sinister forces going on. It started with the water in the pond going missing (Still dry, even though they put a new box of electric by it!) and now I am beginning to suspect something may have happened to The Owner!

You may recall before The Owner went away that I was predicting a row with Water Cooler Office Lady because the water cooler had sprung a leak. Today was the first day that Owners Daughter has allowed him to go back to work. It was really nice to wander down to the office this morning, a patrol I have missed for some months now. There was a lot of sniffs I have missed for far too long and many posts that required weeing up and tufts of grass and other stuff like that on our patrol. We got here and it was like opening some vault, lots of cobwebs and a general silence that suggested that nothing had been there for quite a while. There was also an empty water cooler, a smell of damp carpets (for which I will not be held responsible on this occasion) and a big puddle in the corner (also nothing to do with me). He dials the number for Water Cooler Office Lady and the conversation is along these lines...... Hi Karen (Dunno what he calls her that for, I know her name is Water Cooler Office Lady!) How are you?........ That's so good to hear..............Yes, we have a problem with the water cooler.......... No next week will be fine...............I'll leave it in your capable hands.......No, thank you!....................Click!

Well you could have knocked me down with an empty Bonio box! He would never have turned down a good opportunity like this for a row and I suspect Water Cooler Office Lady thought so too as she rang straight back to check it really was actually him that had called. He has been like this since he came back from hospital. He looks like The Owner, he has The Owner's voice, now we have got rid of the smell of hospitals he even smells like The Owner (a mixture of cheap cologne and stale Barbour jackets), but, but, but..... I think he has been swapped for a space alien!!!!