I decided to bring you a flashback but there\u2019s just too much choice. There have been fifteen 12th<\/sup> of Februarys before this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I started with 2006 when Alfie was a young puppy<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been having a close look at the plants in the intensive care unit, that\u2019s what my mistress calls the ones on the kitchen window ledge. When I say look, I may actually mean nibble. Surprisingly this seems to be an area where humans and dogs have different expectations. You can\u2019t tell if a plant is getting better just by looking at it. You need to know if it has the right taste to it. Well, I can report the branch that accidentally came off in my paws, tasted just fine. I tried telling my mistress, the rest of the plant may look a little lop-sided to her way of thinking, but I hear that is the latest fashion in house plants, at least it is going to have to be in this house!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The following year, when Alfie was still an only dog. This is what he had to say about Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have just realised it is Valentine\u2019s Day on Wednesday and I haven\u2019t got anyone to send a card to. I never did get round to trying to find internet dating or speed dating for dogs. I\u2019m guessing speed dating for dogs is very different than for humans. I can\u2019t imagine it being acceptable for humans to go round and sniff each other\u2019s bottoms to decide if they want to see each other again. For dogs that is perfectly acceptable and for the most part is what would be expected. You get a much better idea about the dog and where it has been, what its lifestyle is like and what it eats, by having a really good sniff. Just having a few minutes to talk tells you so little, for a start they could make up what they tell you but you can\u2019t make up a smell. A smell can\u2019t lie. It\u2019s a far more reliable way of finding things out.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, when my mistress tried internet dating years ago the person she met set fire to the restaurant menu, which rather set the tone for a disastrous evening. Maybe all things considered I\u2019ll just snuggle up to my mistress on Valentine\u2019s day.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n There was just too much choice to bring you anymore. Back in the present and it will be me having to cuddle up to Mum on Valentine\u2019s Day this year. On the bright side, I think she is planning to have a meal with Dad over Alexa. The important part of that as far as I am concerned is that it is going to involve steak! Hopefully, my luck will be in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wilma is going through the archive and finding too much choice. With fifteen years of diary, she has plenty to choose from.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-20960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flashback","tag-alfie","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960","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=20960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960\/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=20960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Houseplants 2006<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Valentine\u2019s Day 2007<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n