{"id":15887,"date":"2019-03-26T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=15887"},"modified":"2019-03-26T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T06:00:40","slug":"spring-is-sprung-tuesday-26th-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/26\/spring-is-sprung-tuesday-26th-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is sprung – Tuesday 26th March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spring is sprung<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Spring is sprung is most definitely true at the moment. There seems to be birds singing everywhere. Frogs dying on the roads. There are daffodils, tulips and lots of other flowers all fighting for attention and now the blossom is coming out on the trees. All in all, it\u2019s pretty good out there. I\u2019ve got to an age where I didn\u2019t really know if I\u2019d see another spring and I am so happy that I can as it\u2019s a lovely time of year. Ari is particularly pleased with the magnolia and insisted on showing it to us all. He says only a couple of year ago it only had one blossom in it and now just look. He does like his garden and goes round checking on it all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Going down stairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m pleased to say that whilst I really am struggling\ngoing down stairs now in a morning, our Mistress and I have worked out a way to\nmake things work. If she puts my harness on me then she can bear some of my\nweight and if my back end slips a bit it\u2019s not such a big deal. She has to wait\nfor me to limber up a bit first. I walk up and down the landing to get my legs\nmoving and then when I\u2019m ready I go to her on the stairs. It\u2019s working quite\nwell so far. Once I\u2019ve got my legs working I can cope for the next few hours,\nso going to the back door is not so bad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing ball<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On her walk yesterday Wilma asked if she could take a ball\nand run after it. She misses having other dogs to run with, so it seemed like\nquite a good idea. She started off really well, bringing the ball back to our\nMistress and putting it in her hand. After that things went awry and Wilma kept\nleaving it in the wrong place so our Mistress refused to throw it for her until\nshe learnt some manners. That was the end of the ball game. Our Mistress says\nshe\u2019ll take the ball thrower today so she can pick it up without bending down.\nIf she bends down more than a couple of times she gets dizzy and falls over so\nI think that\u2019s probably a good idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m off for my swimming lesson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have a great Tuesday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alfie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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