Alarmingly it is a bank holiday weekend and the weather forecast is good. I think this is something that we should all make a note of as it doesn’t happen all that often. I’m hoping it’s going to mean we can all spend quite a lot of time outside together as I think I need something like that. I think I need to take some time out to do some thinking. My Mistress sat me down yesterday and said she wanted to talk about my recent behaviour. The problem is that over the last few months I’ve become a grumpy old man and it isn’t doing anyone any good, least of all me. I don’t know what’s causing it. I do feel stressed and would like more time without the others, not without my Mistress you understand but without the bother of the other dogs. For all that I will miss Megan while she’s away, but when the others are around I am tending to be more grumpy than when they aren’t. It’s not just that I’m looking a bit grumpy, the problem is that I tend to bark very loudly to get my own way. Sometimes I bark right in my Mistress’s ear, usually by mistake, but she’s never very happy about it. I don’t know why I’m feeling this way, I’m not aware that there’s anything wrong health wise, certainly nothing I could put my paw on. Maybe it’s just because my Mistress has been down and that has rubbed off on me. I think what we need is for me and my Mistress to book ourselves a log cabin for a week again, just the two of us for a little rest and relaxation. I did try suggesting it, very quietly so that the others couldn’t hear and my Mistress did at least take me seriously, if only to say she’d got too much to do and it wasn’t an option right now. So it’s back to the drawing board and see what the options are. Perhaps I should go and sort the summerhouse out so we could stay in that for a week.
Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind alfie@alfiedog.me.uk
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