It was so good to see the children again last night and have them all wanting to give me a cuddle and take me for a walk. Of course, the novelty soon wears off when they start arguing about exactly whose dog I am. \u201cHello, don\u2019t I get a bit of a say in this one?\u201d I was very disappointed to find that Helen is letting the side down and has gone and got herself a part time job. It really does start to put more pressure on me to decide what I can do to earn my own money. I had been rather relying on pointing to all of them and saying \u201cWell they don\u2019t do anything\u201d but I have rather lost that battle. I suppose my best bet is to argue I haven\u2019t seen any suitable openings advertised that encourage dogs to apply.<\/p>\n
I spent yesterday afternoon reading a really good book of \u2018Great speeches of our times.\u2019 It\u2019s more great speeches of your times as I am only 17 months old and most of them were made long before I was born. I haven\u2019t found any that are about the wonders of playing frisby or tug, but there is some pretty good stuff on freedom and prejudice. I did have a nap in the middle of reading and by the time I woke up some of them had blended into each other. There I was ready to be a great orator dog and was just practising \u201c\u2026blood, toil, tears and sweat and the greatest of these is sweat.\u201d When on further checking it turns out I had combined two speeches and in fact the greatest of these is \u2018love\u2019 rather than \u2018sweat\u2019 and I was confusing my Churchill with my Bible. I think on balance I preferred my version.<\/p>\n
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