We have a dinghy with the boat. It\u2019s small, near the water\nand I for one have no intention of setting paw in it. It has a sail, at the\nrequest of my Master, and oars, at the request of my Mistress. I liked my\nMistress\u2019s way of thinking when she said that there was no way she was going in\nanything that had the risk of capsizing. My Master said there was almost no\nrisk. If only he hadn\u2019t used the word \u2018almost\u2019 in that sentence it would have\nbeen all right. As it I,s I am not going anywhere near it. Secretly my Mistress\nis rather pleased as it gives her an excuse to say \u2018I can\u2019t leave Alfie on his\nown.\u2019 Quite right too with this amount of water about, Alfie doesn\u2019t want to be\nleft on his own!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We are in the middle of nowhere and in the next few days we\nneed to know exactly which bit of nowhere we are in, as some friends are\nmeeting up with us. If the battery hadn\u2019t died and in fact the whole thing\nstopped working, we could use my GPS to get an exact location. Mind you for\nthat we\u2019d need an internet connection as well so I suppose we are stumped on\nthat front. Perhaps if we could just get it working again we could tell our\nfriends to go onto the internet and they could track our location according to\nwhere I am positioned. It sounds quite exciting until you realise that my\nprivacy has been completely invaded by having to wear this thing round my neck.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I found this from 2011 when our Mistress was able to go and collect Shadow from Switzerland after her microchip had failed. Thank goodness it all turned out all right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am on tenterhooks. I am biting my claws and waiting to hear whether my Mistress and Shadow have successfully checked in at Calais. The plan is to make sure they travel during the working hours of the DEFRA helpline just in case there is any query. Even when we used to travel over to England from Belgium on a regular basis my Mistress used to worry that my paperwork wouldn\u2019t be in order or my chip wouldn\u2019t be able to be read. As I lived in Belgium, the worst that could happen was that we would have to go home. From now on she is going to be a very nervous traveller when it comes to checking us dogs in for our journeys. It\u2019s no good reminding her that it is only about 1 in 10,000 chips that ever fail and most of those won\u2019t fail while you are travelling. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s like most of the things one worries about. The actual\nworry becomes disproportionate to the likely problem. Today though, she is\nquite at liberty to worry. We are all worrying. As it turns out, it\u2019s only been\n3 \u00bd weeks since they originally set off for Switzerland, but with everything\nthat has happened in that time it feels an awful lot longer. We are looking\nforward to life starting to return to normal, if a life that may involve the\narrival of a litter of little fluffy bundles can ever be described as normal.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well that really is more than enough for one Friday so I\u2019m\ngoing to have a lie down. Oh I forgot to tell you, we\u2019re seeing Cinders later\nand just can\u2019t wait. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Have a great Friday<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lost<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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