{"id":15893,"date":"2019-03-28T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2019-03-28T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:00:22","slug":"mal-and-ida-thursday-28th-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/mal-and-ida-thursday-28th-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Mal and Ida &#8211; Thursday 28th March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mal-and-ida\">Mal and Ida<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_7579-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_7579-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_7579-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_7579-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_7579.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mal and Ida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019d like you to meet Mal and Ida. Ok, so I realise they\nare both Mallards and neither of them is an Eider duck but I needed a name for\nthe girl. They seem to have moved in. I mean completely moved in. They don\u2019t\nworry about moving when we\u2019re driving or walking out or in. They are just happy\npottering around, helping themselves to seed and finding somewhere to nest. I\nguess it\u2019s that time of year when the birds and the bees think about taking\nover other people\u2019s gardens in an attempt to satisfy their urges to procreate.\nDon\u2019t get me wrong. I really don\u2019t mind having them here. I\u2019m looking forward\nto seeing the little ones if they don\u2019t decide we\u2019re a bad bet before we get to\nthat stage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-playing-ball\">Playing ball<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Wilma has at last decided that playing ball is\none of her favourite things and had a great time on her walk as it was safe for\nher to have a good game. Our Mistress has explained that she can\u2019t do it all\nthe time, if for no other reason than tennis balls are very bad for the teeth.\nThe nylon in them wears our teeth down and that is not good. I think our\nMistress is going to see if she can find the special dog balls we\u2019ve got now\nthat Wilma has asked to play. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-very-excited\">Very Excited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re all really excited about seeing our Master tomorrow.\nWe won\u2019t see him until the afternoon so we still need to be a little bit\npatient. I hope he\u2019s as excited as we are. When our Mistress spoke to him the\nother day he had to break off their conversation to introduce himself to a passing\nGolden Retriever. I\u2019m hoping that means he\u2019s missing us rather than he\u2019s just\nbeing unfaithful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a great Thursday <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alfie<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Mal and Ida I\u2019d like you to meet Mal and Ida. Ok, so I realise they are both Mallards and neither of them is an <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/mal-and-ida-thursday-28th-march-2019\/\" title=\"Mal and Ida &#8211; Thursday 28th March 2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,50,58,93],"class_list":["post-15893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-entlebucher","tag-wildlife","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}