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<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nIt was funny reading that as I\u2019ve never known a time when Alfie didn\u2019t have books out. He published the first year of his diary, or at least he best bits. I love his woodland story too \u2013 Alfie\u2019s Woods. Most people think it\u2019s a children\u2019s book but it\u2019s not really, it\u2019s for anyone who likes a nice feel good story as it\u2019s all about the power of friendship .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then when I read what Alfie wrote in 2009 I thought you might like to read all of that one again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My Mistress was talking to me yesterday about it being twenty years since the Berlin Wall came down. It\u2019s funny hearing that a city was cut in half by a wall and the people of the half behind the wall couldn\u2019t travel to the other half. It started to make me realise what a lucky dog I am, living in a free society. Can you begin to imagine what it would be like to be told by your Government where you can and can\u2019t travel? Can you imagine having a Government that would shoot you if you tried to do something they had told you not to do? It starts to put the benign ineptitude of our current Government into perspective. I think it also for me starts to put a little more perspective to things like Remembrance Day and the fact that there have been times in history when people have had little choice but to take up arms to fight against Governments that have lost the plot. I guess you just have to think yourself fortunate that that sort of thing hasn\u2019t happened in this country for a while, but there are parts of the world where it is still happening and where normal people are afraid of their own Government. I suppose as well as those who have died in struggles over the years, it is a good time to remember all those engaged in struggles now. Not just those who are part of the military, but the civilians who are prepared to stand up to unjust regimes and who day by day lose their lives in the struggle.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess that\u2019s all a bit sombre, but even a dog has times of reflection and thinks how lucky he is to be free. Ok, so I\u2019m enslaved to a family, but I\u2019m happy and I don\u2019t risk being shot.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Perhaps I\u2019ll make today a day for a bit of reflection. Thank you for sharing it with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find short stories to read at www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book as well as our other books are available HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"