{"id":11986,"date":"2016-07-30T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=11986"},"modified":"2016-07-30T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T05:00:20","slug":"saturday-30th-july-2016-you-cant-win-em-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/30\/saturday-30th-july-2016-you-cant-win-em-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 30th July 2016 &#8211; You can&#8217;t win &#8217;em all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh you have to laugh living in this house. Things never quite work out as you would hope. On the good news side, Alfie did stay in bed for an extra half an hour. Our Mistress says she can just about tolerate 5.45am if he could stick to that or later, but he didn\u2019t look convinced.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3685-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3685\" class=\"wp-image-11987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3685-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3685-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3685-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3685.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Then yesterday our Mistress got all excited as the replacement for Horsie arrived. He wasn\u2019t the same as the original Horsie, but he was at least shaped like a horse and our Mistress thought Wilma would like it. As you can see, she presented it to Wilma who was initially delighted. However\u2026 she very soon decided it was not up to the standards of her original favourite toy and then did the only think that one-year-olds are really good at, and threw a tantrum. The new Horsie was promptly dismembered and distributed about the office. I\u2019d just like to make clear, that unlike the demise of the original Horsie, which I regret to say I was party to, Wilma did this all on her own and within about half an hour of having been given the toy. Our Mistress now says she will not be receiving any further replacements and it\u2019s her own fault. You can imagine how sad that has made Wilma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Wilma\u2019s season still has not started she has taken up the invite to go for Granny\u2019s birthday lunch. To be honest, with how hormonal she is (Wilma not Granny!) I think they may be asking for trouble, but our Mistress has gone armed with chews and treats just in case she needs to keep Wilma quiet. She was going to take Horsie, but the less said about that the better. We\u2019re staying here with our Master having a boys\u2019 day. I told Mum (Shadow) she could be an honorary boy for the day but she glowered at me.<\/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>Oh you have to laugh living in this house. Things never quite work out as you would hope. On the good news side, Alfie did <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/30\/saturday-30th-july-2016-you-cant-win-em-all\/\" title=\"Saturday 30th July 2016 &#8211; You can&#8217;t win &#8217;em all\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[109,63,27,93],"class_list":["post-11986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-family","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986","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=11986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}