Our Master and Mistress went to Strawberries and Pimms on the Village Green and didn\u2019t take us. I hope you\u2019re as shocked at that as I was. I have even heard on the grapevine that there were other dogs there. It gets worse, one of Wilma\u2019s friends even went in the village pond for a swim. To be fair, Mack wasn\u2019t actually at the strawberries and he wasn\u2019t supposed to be in the pond, but he slipped his lead and made a dash for it. It was quite a hot afternoon so I suspect he\u2019d probably got the right idea. I\u2019m going to have a bit of a chat with our Mistress about whether I might try going in for a little swim, on the days I can\u2019t go to swimming. I suspect she will say no but I won\u2019t know if I don\u2019t ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of a project to write a village history book the humans are doing an up to date census. I\u2019ve seen the form and I\u2019m very concerned. Nowhere does it ask any questions about the ages and occupations of any dogs in the household. What an oversight! I\u2019m sure it hasn\u2019t been done deliberately. I thought maybe I would write out my own census form and nip round with it to get a more complete set of information. I might extend it past dogs to other household occupants and have a column for species, although there are some I\u2019d rather not find myself sharing a village with if I\u2019m being strictly honest. I can deal with cats and rabbits, but I would have more concern about snakes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today I\u2019m hoping to be helping with the gardening again. It\u2019s one of my favourite times of the week sitting talking to our Mistress while she pots up some of the seedlings. Some of them even get as far as growing in the garden, but the ones we\u2019ll be working on aren\u2019t quite at that stage at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have a happy Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aristotle<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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