I couldn\u2019t resist doing a Friday flashback to Alfie\u2019s Telegram to Mum and Dad when they got married fifteen years ago. This is what he said way back on this day in 2006, when he was only seven months old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was the wedding yesterday. I have no idea how it went as they\u2019ve been too busy to ring me. They were calling all the tables at the reception after race circuits with my master and mistress sitting at \u2018Monaco\u2019. It was driving round and round the circuit there, admittedly in a 1.6 litre Peugeot 206cc and not a formula 1 car, that my master and mistress first realised they were falling in love. I suppose it was a good job they didn\u2019t have a formula 1 car as that would only have had one seat. Anyway, I sent them a telegram for the wedding. This is what I said.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHello Master and Mistress, it\u2019s Alfie here your beloved but rather left out dog. As I realised you wouldn\u2019t have chance to ring me today, I thought I would send you my best wishes by telegram. It\u2019s funny to think it\u2019s now seven months since you both came to meet me and my brother and sisters for the first time. It was obvious then that the way to my mistress\u2019s heart was through my master. I knew that if I made a fuss of him and he wanted to take me home then she would want that just to make him happy. It\u2019s all worked out rather well really I know my mistress thinks the world of him and he makes her really happy. He looks after her and she looks after me, not a bad set up for a puppy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, getting back to the point, my little suitcase is packed ready for you to pick me up for the honeymoon. Please don\u2019t forget to bring me back a doggy bag from the reception. Oh and Master just because my Mistress looks up to you and thinks you are the most wonderful bloke in the world doesn\u2019t mean you come any higher in the pecking order as far as I\u2019m concerned. I still expect to get the best seat in front of the fire and don\u2019t go getting any ideas about my fetching your slippers, it just isn\u2019t going to happen. All my love, your devoted puppy Alfie.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I hoped they liked it. I think I\u2019ve packed everything, I have my sun cream and a little hat and some glasses, a bucket and spade and a beach towel. I\u2019ve also packed the books I want to catch up with reading. I presume they\u2019re taking me but they haven\u2019t said. You don\u2019t think they would leave me behind do you? It wouldn\u2019t be the same without me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Poor old Alfie. They did leave him behind, but that\u2019s a story for another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wilma has a flashback to Alfie’s telegram to Mum and Dad for their wedding fifteen years ago. He was all ready to go on honeymoon, but did he go?\u00e5<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-23755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flashback","tag-flashback","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755","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=23755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}His telegram to the wedding<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Ready to go away<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n