Run around around around

Dear oh dear, what a week I’ve had! As usual there have been ups and there have been downs. The weather has been a bit up and down too. There have been some properly cold mornings (and days) and the weather for the weekend is properly horrible. Fortunately, I took them out relatively early this morning and avoided the wet and blustery weather of this afternoon. Back to that a in a bit. Mind you, that’s if I ever get there! This new interface called ‘Gutenberg’ makes putting paw to keyboard very difficult indeed. I was surfing the interweb the other day and I saw something on Poochtome about them bringing back the ‘classic’ interface as a plug-in. Honestly, how is a dog supposed to keep up with his Glog with all these changes?! Anyway, enough about that, what about me? Ah yes, well let me start with last Sunday. He spent most of the morning in his study. He claimed he was working on something called a ‘Neighbourhood Plan’, whatever that is. I had to make up my own entertainment. I invented a new game – it’s called ‘Arm’. He hates it!!! That, in my opinion, makes it an even better game. It’s a really simple game, but all the best ones are. What you do is creep up behind him whilst he’s tapping on the keyboard (obviously he isn’t anywhere near as good or as quick on a keyboard as I am!) and, just when he’s at a critical point in the document you nudge his arm with your nose and knock it off the keyboard. He gets really cross … particularly if you keep doing it at irregular intervals so that he thinks you’ve stopped and then you do it again!

On Sunday afternoon we all got in the car thingy and went to Nana and Grandad’s house. As visits to Nana and Grandad go, this was not one of my best! It wasn’t my fault!!!! When we got there I wanted to go outside but I tried barking at him and he wouldn’t let me out. Then I tried barking at Daddy Richard but he wouldn’t let me out. Then I tried barking at Grandad and he wouldn’t let me out either. Finally I decided to try Nana but she almost fell over me when I made her jump, so that didn’t work either. I found myself getting into twubble again. Since I wasn’t allowed out, I decided to have a little sniff around. That led to some very quick Googling (Google, as everyone knows, is the vastly inferior search engine to Doogle in the doggy world) when I found the fruit bowl had been hidden – clearly not very well – under a table and I decided to see what a pear tastes like. Yet again, more twubble! Apparently eating the fruit is not bad for me but the seeds contain traces of cyanide which is pretty poisonous for dogs. It didn’t do me any harm apart from getting me into twubble again. I think they must have changed their minds because the next time I barked to go out he almost leapt up to let me out.

Eventually Nana started putting food out … loads of it! Well, you can imagine what that was like. They weren’t offering me a thing and I need to let them know, so I barked and barked! I got into even more twubble then. Nana was telling me off, Daddy Richard was telling me off, Grandad was telling me off and I thought he was going to burst a blood vessel! In the end they ate their dinner and then we all got back in the car thingy and went home. I knew I was in twubble!! When we got home we went for a quick walk around the block and then I settled down on the sofa. I did ask for a tummy rub but other than that (which didn’t go well because as I rolled around I fell off the edge of the sofa) I kept my head down. I rather decided that I’d been in enough twubble for one day so I decided that it would probably be better if I didn’t play any more games for a while so I lay down on the sofa and pushed out a few ????s instead. 

On Monday he spent the whole day … and I mean the whole day … writing his flamin’ document in his study. We went for our morning walk but then when he went into his study he didn’t come out again all flamin’ day! I went for my lunchtime walk with Daddy Richard and left him to his document. I’ll tell you, I couldn’t believe my eyes when he finally emerged from his study in the evening and then he went straight out to a ‘meeting’. When he eventually came home at nearly 10 o’clock in the evening, it was the first time all day I had had any attention. I suppose, to be fair (not that I want to be), he was trying to make up for the lack of attention he had given me all day but by that time I was so bushed I didn’t have the energy for all that fuss, so I left him to it and got on the sofa to push out a few more ????s. It wasn’t until Tuesday morning that I got proper attention and, even then, he didn’t seem to have a clue about my needs. It was freezing cold when we went out for a walk and he seemed to completely forget that I’ve got a shaved bum and dawdled all the way along Oxted Road and Church Lane and I had to practically drag him down Bay Pond Path until he let me off the lead.

And so finally, we got to this morning. They weren’t out of bed particularly early and so, when they were finally up I got them to have a quick breakfast so that we could go out. Mind you, I didn’t count on getting in the car thingy but we did. I can’t honestly say I was all that happy about going out in the car thingy but since I knew we would be going somewhere nice, I put up with it. We were only in the car thingy for a few minutes thank goodness and then we were out. Oh my woof, it was wonderful!!! It was flamin’ cold but I soon got warm running around. Yes! That was running around! We went to Manor Park in Whyteleafe. Almost as soon as we were out of the car thingy I was let off lead. I had an absolutely fabulous time! I ran into the woods and out in the open spaces, I met other dogs and ran with them, I ran up and I ran down the hills, it was fantastic! The first time I have been allowed to run around since before my operation. I loved it! It wasn’t until we were almost back at the car thingy that I went back on lead. We timed it perfectly too because on the way home it started to rain and it hasn’t stopped since! So what a week – there’s been twubble but there’s been some fabulous times!!! But now, what I need more than anything else, is a quick walk around the block so, for now, must paws … ????