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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nNow I don\u2019t often feel sorry for myself. I\u2019ve had had elbows right from being a few months old and it\u2019s just a fact of life. I don\u2019t grumble and moan about it, I don\u2019t have a strop when they\u2019re hurting. It\u2019s just that every so often when it means missing out on something I\u2019d really like to do, I get a little down. Today is one of those days. It\u2019s the Northern Entlebucher Fun Day and it\u2019s happening just down the road from our house. If I go out into the back garden and listen carefully then I will actually be able to hear them having fun. Shadow and Wilma are going and so is my half-brother Bernie. I\u2019d like to go too, but I know that if I run around madly with all of them then I\u2019ll pay for it for days. As it is, there are more days that I\u2019m not up to walking at the moment then the ones I am comfortable and I know our Mistress is right in trying to take care of my legs, but it just feels so hard and so unfair today. She has said that she might nip home and take me down for a short while, just so I can see everyone, but you know what it\u2019s like. I want to run and play and lose myself in the day, not have to sit on the sidelines looking on. This is where being given the option of basket weaving just doesn\u2019t cut it when you know that you\u2019re missing out on racing madly round a field. Just for once I don\u2019t want to have to be responsible and boring. I want to let my fur down and have a good time with all the others. I might have reached middle age, but I want to act like a teenager for a couple of hours and just forget the implications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m just going to hang out in the garden instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aristotle<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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