{"id":12302,"date":"2016-11-03T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=12302"},"modified":"2016-11-03T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T06:00:02","slug":"thursday-3rd-november-2016-trick-or-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2016\/11\/03\/thursday-3rd-november-2016-trick-or-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 3rd November 2016 &#8211; Trick or treat?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You have to admire our Mistress\u2019s cunning plans at times. She always buys lots of sweets for Halloween. However, we live on a narrow country lane, with fields on one side, no street lamps, no pavements and very few children who can face calling at our house after dark. Now you\u2019d like to think she buys all the sweets because she\u2019s a nice person and would love all the children to be brave enough to call. Of course on that note, having our Master making scary noises from the kitchen when they do call may not help, and that\u2019s when you don\u2019t think about the four of us barking. Anyway, the truth is, she buys lots of sweets so that she can eat them all! Since around 8.30 on Monday evening when she concluded there were unlikely to be any more callers, she\u2019s been steadily ploughing her way through a very large bowl of chocolates. Someone really should stop her! In terms of the number of people who call, it doesn\u2019t really help that no one can actually find our doorbell and you can\u2019t hear the door knocker unless you are sitting right by the door!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3894-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_3894\" class=\"wp-image-12303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3894-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3894-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3894-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3894.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The lengths that Wilma will go to in order to sleep as close to our Mistress as possible while she\u2019s working are impressive. Even I wouldn\u2019t choose a position which involved wedging myself around the leg of the desk! They both like it if they are actually touching and when Wilma gets into bed with our Mistress she does that thing I used to do when I found curling up around our Mistress a comfortable position. Once she gets into place both of them just gently let out a sigh of contentment before drifting off to sleep. Of course, I wish it were still me doing that, but it\u2019s cute listening to the two of them. Oddly I don\u2019t feel jealousy when it\u2019s Wilma.<\/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>You have to admire our Mistress\u2019s cunning plans at times. She always buys lots of sweets for Halloween. 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