Day 10; A frog in my breakfast bucket and fish in my salad!!!

Today was an afternoon shift, I had been looking forwards to a lay in but I was wake awake by 7.30, typical! I had to take my bike back to the hire place, my week with the bike was up and I couldn't afford another weeks rent. Goodbye bike, it has been a pleasure!

After returning the bike I went to the beach, read my book, listened to some new music and watched the fisherman bringing home their mornings work. On my way back from the beach I stopped at the 'Pad Tai House', a little restaurant at the end of our street, to get lunch, I decided on a Papaya salad and asked for it to take away. When I got back to the centre I sat down to eat my lunch... To my absolute horror and disgust there were shrimp in there!!! Who the hell puts shrimp in a papaya salad!! ...it went straight in the bin.

I started work at 1, hungry and still annoyed about the fish in my salad. We had a cat brought in by its owner, it had crusty ears. It had scabies, I've seen it before in horses. It is caused by a mite and clears up after a series of injections. There was a another dog brought in, also by its owners, it was lay lifelessly on the back of their truck, I'm not sure what happen to that one.

Around 3pm, the sky went dark and we could hear thunder in the distance. It had been getting hotter and hotter over the last few days and hours, a big storm was on the way. We brought the dogs inside and just after the last ones were in, the heavens opened! I see allot of rain, I'm English, this was what I would class as 'big rain'! Within minutes the outside areas where the dogs spend their days were flooded, the roof in the isolation room was leaking and the dogs were howling due to the thunder. A frog hopped down the middle of the kennels which wound all the dogs up, they all wanted a piece of that frog! Marcus decided to remove the frog by putting it into a bucket and taking it outside... a smooth move, except that the bucket he chose just happened to be the one I use to eat my breakfast out of each morning, wonderful!

The afternoon was a total write off, we sat in the kitchen watching YouTube clips and talking about how hungry we all were. There wasn't anything else to do.

Later there was a BBQ in aid of manager Matt's birthday.  It was a vegetarian BBQ- an oxymoron if ever I heard one! The food was actually really good, (although I could of murdered a couple of sausages and a chuck of steak!), and it was nice to have everyone together.  I was tired and went to bed early, about 11.30 I think.