Space Aliens!!!!

This weekend I have struggled a little. Small Boy went home with Strange Woman and the peace left behind in his wake was almost deafening. Our patrols were back to the regular mooch around the farm again, as opposed to the running at breakneck speed behind his bike for several miles, once an hour, on the hour.

Then on Sunday morning, just after the sun came up, The Owner is up and on the go with dish washers, washing machines and my nemesis The Dyson. Now this is normally the precursor to a visit from Owners Daughter but something about his demeanour said that was not going to be the case. Machines all fed and Dyson caged in the cupboard under the stairs again, a cup of tea for The Owner was in order, so we went and sat down and watched the very fast and VERY noisy bikes on the telly. They seem to me to be a bit like the very fast noisy cars we also watch on the telly as they go round and round the same roads and never seem to get anywhere. The Owner says it must be their Sat Nav although I am not sure what one of them is or if I should have one. After watching this for half an hour I went and sat out the front in the sun and then.... well....you could have knocked me down with an empty Bonio box! Two of those very fast and VERY noisy bikes pulled up outside. I was a bit wary to be honest and was a bit reluctant to go out and have an opinion on the matter. I had my suspicion that they may have been space aliens on the back of them!!! They had arms and legs, much like other hoomuns but they had shiny faces where their eyes should be! I was very glad The Owner was there for once! Then one of the space aliens took off its head!!!!! Oh saints preserve us I thought, this is going to be a messy day! But underneath its head was Owners Sister, had it eaten her? Then the other two space aliens took their heads off. One appeared to be Owner's Niece and the other, Mechanic. Perhaps they had all been eaten?! Well the space aliens took the rest of their skins off and all three looked deceptively normal and they gave me several Bonios so they couldn't be all that bad. Later, they put their space alien skins and heads on again and got back on their very fast and VERY noisy bikes and went up the road. I stood there for some time after they had left to see if they were like the ones on the telly and came round again but I didn't see them. So the big question is, did I see space aliens? Or were they really Owner's Sister, Owner's Niece and Mechanic? And if they weren't space aliens where was Spaniel with far too many opinions and Horse? I think I need to go and have a lie down.