Yesterday was about as exciting as it gets around here. I went swimming for one thing. It was going to be Aristotle who went, but our Mistress asked if he\u2019d mind me going instead. He\u2019s always happy to get out of having to go so he readily agreed. She thought it might help me to settle down a bit and use up my nervous energy. I think I overdid it because I was flat out asleep for most of the rest of the day. Except that is when our Mistress wok me to show what the postman had brought. Now I shouldn\u2019t be telling you about this, as the winners haven\u2019t all been announced yet, but it was the proof copy of next year\u2019s Entlebucher Club calendar. I\u2019m delighted to say that both Shadow and I made the cut, although sadly neither Wilma nor Aristotle did, although our Mistress has sneaked their pictures onto the front cover along with some of the other dogs who were runners up in their categories. She did reassure me that Ari and Wilma had been runners up, she wasn\u2019t just adding in extra pictures of her dogs, but I\u2019m not sure I believe her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I looked through to see if my girlfriend, Bella could be a pin-up for a month, but our Mistress said she hadn\u2019t entered, so I didn\u2019t bother to look any further. I will tell you when the calendar goes on sale in case you want to buy one. It will be helping to raise money to pay Heidi’s costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be fair, our Mistress was getting even more excited by her other parcel as it contained the bookmarks and postcards which have the cover of her new book on them. The way she is going no one who knows her is not going to know about the book, but I guess that\u2019s what marketing is all about. She has reassured me there is a dog in the book, so I\u2019m happy. She says he plays an important part, but is not one of the leads. I was almost satisfied with that, but I think she could try harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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