{"id":11082,"date":"2015-12-13T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11082"},"modified":"2024-04-12T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:37:28","slug":"sunday-13th-december-2015-and-then-it-rained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2015\/12\/13\/sunday-13th-december-2015-and-then-it-rained\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 13th December 2015 &#8211; And then it rained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you live somewhere in the world that is dry and sunny and can recommend it, then please will you tell us where it is and what we need to do to move. It is grey and wet here. It has been grey and wet for days, or possibly weeks. Every time we get a dry day and you think you\u2019re going to stop getting your paws wet it starts raining again and the ground is waterlogged. Alfie will not walk in the rain. I won\u2019t get out of the car into a puddle or mud, although once out I will tolerate rain as long as I don\u2019t have to go through mud. Only Wilma seems to like it, although Shadow is not too bad with it either. Which brings me on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to what to do on a day like yesterday. Alfie and Wilma went for the relaxing Saturday option. I chose to help our Mistress with a spot of baking. I have to say being on paw when blueberry muffins are being made can only be a good thing. Then we moved <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/01f5b6b40c64e86d197fe238551000936ea505b0f5_00001.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11084\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/01f5b6b40c64e86d197fe238551000936ea505b0f5_00001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wilma's nap in a shipwrecked bad in the middle of the floor\" class=\"wp-image-11084\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wilma&#8217;s nap in a shipwrecked bad in the middle of the floor &#8211; she moved it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>on to fudge making and at that point Alfie didn\u2019t want to be left out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh I know I\u2019m supposed to be devising recipes for Wilma\u2019s Kong toys but I have to say that helping our Mistress was much more my idea of a wet Saturday than having to do any real thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think I should apologise to all the young Entlebuchers out there who saw me as a role model for misbehaviour. It seems I grew up somewhere over the last few months and now I keep being praised for being a model dog. Now, tempting as it is to think of something truly naughty to rebel against the clean cut image, I have to say I\u2019m getting so many cuddles and so much praise and attention that frankly I don\u2019t want to throw it away. To be fair, our Mum \u2018grew up\u2019 when she turned two. I\u2019ve done my best to maintain the eternal puppy image until I was four, but I guess some things can\u2019t last forever. Sorry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find short stories to read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfiedog.com\">www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book as well as our other books are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=rosemary%20j%20kind\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>If you live somewhere in the world that is dry and sunny and can recommend it, then please will you tell us where it is <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2015\/12\/13\/sunday-13th-december-2015-and-then-it-rained\/\" title=\"Sunday 13th December 2015 &#8211; And then it rained\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,79,5],"tags":[63,50,27,93],"class_list":["post-11082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-north-yorkshire","category-wisdom-and-experience","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11616,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions\/11616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}