Holiday season is all but over and life is beginning to return to normal. I was disappointed to find that the dogs are back staying with the traveller on my favourite walk. Now don\u2019t get me wrong, they do no harm and are very welcome to live there, it\u2019s just that I can\u2019t resist the temptation for the argument that the dogs are always up for and so my Mistress has resorted to taking me a different route again, which is a shame because that way is our favourite.<\/p>\n
My Mistress is in the process of taking down the Christmas decorations. Most of them are fairly straightforward but there is the small matter of the trees. If it isn\u2019t bad enough that they seem to have shed their needles all over the house, there is the one with roots in the pot outside the front door that someone needs to remember to water. It\u2019s a biggish tree, quite hard to miss but that doesn\u2019t mean it will get remembered where water is concerned. Unlike me, it can\u2019t go up to my Mistress and point to the empty bowl, which could prove to be its downfall. Time will tell.<\/p>\n
January always seems such a long month. I\u2019m going to try a new technique to pace myself through the month. I will not get up before ten in the morning and will have a nap for much of the afternoon. I\u2019m banking on the rest of it not seeming so bad, but it isn\u2019t helped by my Mistress\u2019s new \u2018spa resort\u2019 calendar with pictures that have even made the six year old of the family ask if we can take him. But then, who wouldn\u2019t want to relax in the perfect blue infinity pool that makes up most of January\u2019s picture. I think she\u2019s just torturing herself. It wouldn\u2019t surprise me at all to find that by about the twentieth of the month she has booked herself in for a bit of pampering. I wander if they take dogs?<\/p>\n
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