\u201cDear mum\u201d That\u2019s what I call her at home. \u201cIt\u2019s quite fun here, I get to play with a lot of other dogs and horses. When I say play with the horses that is in the sense of I try to get them to chase me and they snort at me in disgust, but I still get some fun out of it. I\u2019m bigger than many of the other dogs. <\/em>Sometimes I have to remember not to be too rough, but most of them are ok. No one rubs my tummy and ears the way you do though, and even if they try, they never do both at the same time. No one gives me my morning Frostie, lunchtime crisp and occasional (and by occasional I mean regular) bits of marzipan. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It really isn\u2019t the same without you around. I\u2019ve started to realise you are a big softy and I miss snuggling up to you. Marrying my master won\u2019t make you less snugly will it? You will still spoil me rotten won\u2019t you? I really hope you come home to me soon, I miss you. All my love Alfie\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I then moved forward to when Shadow was a young puppy in 2009. We always think she has been a relatively good dog and no one really mentions things like eating books, or in this case\u2026 digging!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Things aren\u2019t quite so happy here. Shadow has rediscovered her passion for digging and has done it in quite a big way. We now have whole craters in our garden. <\/em>The house has a trail of mud going everywhere that Shadow went. She has said she\u2019ll do all her own clearing up, but I think that was only said to get my Mistress to forgive her just a tiny bit. The fact that she has also dug up the grass that my Mistress has planted in pots to replace the patches that Shadow has ruined only added to the frustration. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m starting to think the real repairs can only really begin when we\u2019re leaving or if Shadow goes on a very long holiday. I suppose we really need to take her to the beach and let her dig in the sand, I could build the sandcastles while she digs the moat.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I really liked this from 2015 too<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our Mistress deserves a special award for having mastered the art of sleeping curled up with not just one, but two dogs. I couldn\u2019t bring you a photograph. <\/em>It would have meant one of us moving and once we were in position that wasn\u2019t going to happen without good reason. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, our Mistress has now fully perfected the right angles to make this work. She lies on her left side in a sort of reverse zed shape. I curl up in the crook of the top zed with my head under her chin and my legs curled up on her legs and Shadow snuggles into the lower part of the zed with her bottom nestled in behind our Mistress\u2019s knees. <\/em>Then we can all go back to sleep and stay perfectly in position for a good couple of hours. Occasionally it goes a bit wrong and our Mistress wakes up with no feeling in parts of her body, or my hair tickles her as I\u2019m under the covers with her.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I had to bring you this last bit from Alfie\u2019s 2015 entry as I\u2019m really missing summer now and wondered if the person who found it then could have another look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019d also like to publicly thank whoever found summer and returned it at least for a while. I\u2019m very pleased to see it and am just hoping it doesn\u2019t wander off again anytime soon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You see, that’s why I love Friday Flashback.<\/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\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love Friday Flashback, says Wilma as she looks back at what the others were doing on this day in years gone by.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,63,50,27,93],"class_list":["post-17580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-entlebucher","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/DSC00294-1024x768.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA big hole<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The art of sleeping with a dog<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Lost summer<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n