{"id":17288,"date":"2020-04-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=17288"},"modified":"2020-04-10T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T05:00:00","slug":"easter-flashback-friday-10th-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/10\/easter-flashback-friday-10th-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Flashback &#8211; Friday 10th April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Easter Flashback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday Flashback has become Easter Flashback this weekend. When Alfie was young (17 months old), he wrote his thoughts on Easter and I thought they were quite funny. Mum said they were a bit irreverent, but I chose not to listen to her. I\u2019ve got that down to a fine art if we\u2019re being honest. So here are Alfie\u2019s thoughts on Easter from 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Easter Puppy<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I have been thinking about the whole Easter story. Why aren\u2019t there any dogs in it? Why didn\u2019t God send his only begotten dog to save the world? It could have come with a little barrel round its neck. I would settle for seeing some of the Easter scenes with Jesus\u2019s faithful dog at his feet but there don\u2019t seem to be any dogs figuring anywhere in the equation. If the story can be rewritten by artists and writers to make Jesus a white baby, can\u2019t they have another try and give him a dog? It doesn\u2019t have to be an Entlebucher, any dog would do. It probably ought to be a mongrel to show how he had time for everyone. Maybe it could have three legs too, for good measure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If that all seems to be going too far I would be happy to change the Easter Bunny for the Easter Puppy. I am not sure how that fits with the children doing an Easter egg hunt in the garden but then I didn\u2019t know that rabbits came from eggs either!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MVC-021S.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MVC-021S.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MVC-021S-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MVC-021S-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MVC-021S-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alfie as a puppy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Bone Hunt<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Frustratingly I wasn\u2019t allowed to find and eat the eggs before the children did but it was very exciting running round madly whilst they were searching. I did persuade my Mistress to do a dog biscuit hunt for me after they had all finished but it wasn\u2019t so much fun without the kids running round as well, but at least there were dog biscuits to eat at the end of it. My Mistress did make it a bit easier for me and didn\u2019t put them in the trees where I couldn\u2019t reach. I haven\u2019t exactly gone short of dog biscuits with the children here. It is great when everyone wants to give you a treat and no one can count exactly how many you have successfully begged for in the course of a day. It\u2019s a dog\u2019s life all right.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well that\u2019s all from looking back. I\u2019m going to see if Mum will do a Bonio hunt for me and Shadow this weekend. Now I know Alfie had one, she has no excuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Wilma is looking in an Easter Flashback to a time in 2007 when Alfie was just a young dog. 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