{"id":11692,"date":"2016-03-07T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11456"},"modified":"2016-03-07T06:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T06:00:44","slug":"monday-7th-march-2016-getting-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/07\/monday-7th-march-2016-getting-excited\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 7th March 2016 &#8211; Getting Excited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Wilma here and I\u2019m getting so excited about the week ahead. Alfie will write the diary tomorrow and Wednesday, as long as he feels well enough, and then I shall be taking over from Thursday to bring you all news of my travels to Crufts. Our Mistress says we can go round all the areas together so I can see what\u2019s happening. I want to choose the pastimes I shall follow when I\u2019m older. I think I might like to try agility, but our Mistress has a crazy idea that we might do more obedience together. I will be representing the breed on Thursday morning and Friday afternoon and then again on Saturday lunchtime, so if you want to come and meet me then head for the Discover Dogs area in Hall 3 stand W11. At other times you\u2019re likely to see me carrying my little red rucksack round and asking lots of questions.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday will be extra special as we\u2019ll be supporting Basil (Torfheide Beethoven), Dickens (Torfheide Bumble at Dolliesgang) and Addie (Torfheide Adrienne) as they step into the show ring in the Import Register Working Group classes. It will be so exciting to see how it\u2019s supposed to be done. I\u2019ve been told I have to learn so that I get it right if I\u2019m there next year, which I hope I will be.<\/p>\n<p>Alfie didn\u2019t want to walk again yesterday, but thankfully he was feeling well enough for a game of tug with me when we got home. You wouldn\u2019t believe how many tablets he\u2019s having to take at the moment. I think even he is finding it hard to remember the right ones at the right time. He has them wrapped in a little Belgian marzipan but we are running out so our Mistress needs to try to get some more for him. It\u2019s got much more almond and less sugar than English marzipan and we love it.<\/p>\n<p>Crufts is from March \u00a010<sup>th<\/sup> to \u00a013<sup>th<\/sup> at the NEC near Birmingham and adult tickets \u00a0cost from \u00a316.20 for Thursday and Friday to \u00a318.36 on Saturday and Sunday. You can buy tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crufts.org.uk\/content\/ticket-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find short stories to read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfiedog.com\/\">www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\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%253Daps&amp;field-keywords=rosemary%20j%20kind\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It\u2019s Wilma here and I\u2019m getting so excited about the week ahead. Alfie will write the diary tomorrow and Wednesday, as long as he feels <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/07\/monday-7th-march-2016-getting-excited\/\" title=\"Monday 7th March 2016 &#8211; Getting Excited\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,3,61],"tags":[87,50,60,93],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crufts","category-day-to-day-life","category-training","tag-discover-dogs","tag-entlebucher","tag-training-2","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"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=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}