I didn’t tell you the whole story about out walk on Sunday. The day had got off to a difficult start when the hot water in the place we were staying stopped working just as my Mistress wanted to go in the shower. Anyway they said they would send the maintenance man so she got dressed and went to put Shadow and Ari in the car so they were out of the way. The problem was that the decking she had to walk across was wet and the maintenance man arrived leading Ari to pull towards him. In turn that pulled our Mistress flat on her back and causing quite a lot of bad bruising to her right elbow, bottom and back. She was a bit shaken up but we carried on as normal. While we were out she then tripped over and has completely messed up her left knee, and bruised her leg, right knee, left arm and both hands as well. The walking guide did not mention we had to climb a long steep hill and unfortunately as it was 23 years out of date described a number of route indicators that were no longer present. The point at which it started taking us straight across boggy ground with no clear idea of where to go next my Mistress put her foot down and said we would turn around. I was amazed how well I coped with it all. It must be the furthest I’ve walked in years and I had no problem at all. I may hate going swimming but it definitely does me good. What was not funny was that when my Mistress got back she wanted a long hot soak to help all her wounds, but the hot water had stopped working again. Needless to say we won’t be staying there again!
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