Me: Why are you giving me one of your looks?
Nell: You know perfectly well.
Me: I don’t.
Nell: All you had to do was rest.
Me: I am.
Nell: What part of rest includes setting the dishwasher on fire?
Me: I just turned it on.
Nell: You’ve only been home a day and you’re already destroying the kitchen.
Me: I didn’t mean to.
Nell: Malcolm has had to take the day off with mild anxiety.
Me: Can you get the day off for that?
Nell: Nobody needs a nervous flamingo.
Me: True.
Nell: All I can say is thank goodness for Manuel’s tentacles.
Me: I’m not sure how to respond to that.
Nell: He’s going to have to do all the washing up as well as making pastry for the pasties.
Me: Can’t we have something else?
Nell: Poppy’s in talks with John the Doberman about supplying Starbarks and he needs some samples.
Me: They’re the perfect lunch.
Nell: Yes. The crew have been enjoying them.
Me: What crew?
Nell: Auditions for ‘Raiders of the Lost Bark’ are still going on, you know.
Me: Right.
Nell: Have you shared the link to the fundraiser for the animation series?
Me: Not for a while.
Nell: We have new followers every day and they won’t know about it.
Me: Here it is: https://gofund.me/547e2a25. Please donate if you can. You will be helping us make a dream come true.
Nell: You’ve obviously been tiring Harriet out. Look at the state of her. She’s fallen asleep on David’s toy.
Me: Dave doesn’t seem worried.
Nell: He’s making the most of the sunshine.
Me: That’s exactly what we should be doing.
Nell: What?
Me: We need to follow Dave’s example.
Nell: Eating pasties by mistake and crashing out on the carpet?
Me: No. Sorry.
