{"id":12288,"date":"2016-10-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=12288"},"modified":"2016-10-30T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T06:00:00","slug":"sunday-30th-october-2016-nature-can-be-cruel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/sunday-30th-october-2016-nature-can-be-cruel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 30th October 2016 &#8211; Nature can be cruel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3877.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3877-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"img_3877\" class=\"wp-image-12289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3877-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3877.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Now when I say \u2018Nature can be cruel\u2019 I\u2019m not talking about the bones of the large hare that had been utterly eaten and whose remains we\u2019ve been walking past. That in itself is a tragedy especially as our Mistress took so much pleasure in watching it across the field. And it was a big hare! I dread to think what got the better of it and certainly have no wish to meet it. Anyway, I digress. I wanted to complain about the squirrels. They have been trying to spoil the fun for the birds by chewing right through the bird feeder to get to the peanuts. Our Mistress wouldn\u2019t mind, but she installed a special squirrel feeder just for them a few years ago and they\u2019ve never bothered going near it. To be fair, it hasn\u2019t been the birds\u2019 week. They have a container of sunflower seeds to eat as well, but Wilma and Alfie teamed up on Friday and she knocked it off so he could eat the seeds. Our Mistress got very cross with both of them about that. Now she says that until they learn how to behave there will be no more sunflower seeds going out into the garden. Her main concern is that they increase the frequency of Alfie needing to go to the toilet and decrease the time he has warning that he needs to go and can hang on! You get the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3883.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3883-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_3883\" class=\"wp-image-12290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3883-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3883-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3883-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3883.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nature is also doing weird things around the plant side of life. This lovely apple blossom is not supposed to be out right now. The poor tree thinks it\u2019s spring and it hasn\u2019t even had winter yet. The blossom does look lovely. I just hope the tree isn\u2019t going to get too depressed when it realises that it\u2019s wasted all that effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a happy Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love<br>\nAristotle<\/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>Now when I say \u2018Nature can be cruel\u2019 I\u2019m not talking about the bones of the large hare that had been utterly eaten and whose <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/sunday-30th-october-2016-nature-can-be-cruel\/\" title=\"Sunday 30th October 2016 &#8211; Nature can be cruel\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,79],"tags":[109,63,12,58,93],"class_list":["post-12288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-gardening-2","category-north-yorkshire","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-gardening","tag-wildlife","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288","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=12288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/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=12288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}