As for the Shepherdess, I was in the doctor's collecting my statins and the doctor asked about her. I replied that she was on holiday in Florida jumping out of perfectly serviceable aeroplanes. The doctor replied that she had once done a parachute jump but did not intend to repeat the experience. I said that my father had made several jumps while training as a commando in WW2 and had told me that jumping from a balloon was more frightening than jumping from an aircraft because you could see the cable stretching all the way down to the ground.
I sent the Shepherdess a text saying that the doctor had been asking after her. I got back a lengthy email accusing me of talking about her behind her back and bringing up two other incidents from the past.
I'll give her a week or ten days to calm down.
Now what was the expression, men are from Mars...