Out before dawn to fetch the newspaper, I have had to chuck rocks at a fat raccoon nosing around the hive.
She's also pleased that she can once again "look for food for the family," she added, before going to fetch a cup and arranging twigs at the foot of a nearby termite mound to demonstrate how she will make her family protein-rich again.
So it was that I came downstairs a couple of hours later, just before 11 P.M., to fetch my car.
"I like living too much, and that's why I'll outlive the lot of you," the old woman says, before getting up to fetch a blanket.
I told my daughter I had "to blow away all the hurricanes," but a more accurate description would be that I had "to blow away all the cobwebs," before coming back to fetch her and my wife.
When Prince William left the hospital shortly before 16:00 BST, to fetch his son for a visit to his new sister, he told those outside he was "very happy".
Before leaving, offer to fetch her coat and help her back into it.
He waited until I was in front of the building before he came outside to fetch me.
If she found herself out and about with a spare hour before it was time to fetch the boys, she would knock out a few rides.
The Scottish influence is most resplendent, however, in the abundance of whiskeys, which an obliging bartender will nimbly clamber up the shelves to fetch, before serving cocktails like the peaty Blackberry Tartan (whiskey, blackberry compote, walnut bitters) and the Krankie (rosemary-infused bourbon, tamarind purée).
