{"id":13440,"date":"2017-08-01T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2017-08-01T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T05:00:01","slug":"tuesday-1st-august-2017-looking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/01\/tuesday-1st-august-2017-looking-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 1st August 2017 – Looking good"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well I\u2019m home and very pleased to be I am too. As Wilma started showing you some garden pictures yesterday I thought I\u2019d add one or two of my own today. When I went to inspect everything our Mistress said I was looking so relaxed and happy to be home that she couldn\u2019t resist taking my photo and told me what I fine fellow I\u2019m looking. You\u2019d never guess I\u2019m almost 11 \u00be by just looking at me. Ok, so when I move my back end isn\u2019t so good and I have got a bit distressed about having been away but overall our Mistress thinks the break may have done me good. We\u2019re lucky to have such a good kennels and I do like the people there. I\u2019ve known the owner of the kennels most of my life and he is so lovely to me. Anyway, it\u2019s a good job I like it there as I have some more time when our Mistress goes away without us in a couple of weeks. She\u2019s going on her own that time so I shall be staying with Wilma.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Anyway, back in the garden I thought I\u2019d show you some of the more practical things. Aristotle can have his flowers, but I\u2019m more of a vegetable dog myself. This year we\u2019re growing carrots, parsnips, runner beans and potatoes. And of course there is the herb garden that Wilma mentioned. Our Mistress has about 20 different varieties of herb, although some of them do seem to be taking over rather. Then there are the fruit trees. The pears are not doing very well and have precisely no fruit. The apple trees on the other paw are doing very well and the birds ate the cherries. The other day a blackbird nonchalantly walked straight past  our Mistress, hopped up, took a blueberry, looked at her as much as to say \u2018What are you going to do about it?\u2019 and hopped back down again. Wildlife isn\u2019t as shy and retiring as it used to be. They seem to come with attitude now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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