{"id":26266,"date":"2022-04-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26266"},"modified":"2022-04-22T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T05:00:00","slug":"the-dock-house-friday-22nd-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/04\/22\/the-dock-house-friday-22nd-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Duck House – Friday 22nd April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Duck House<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The duck house has arrived. We\u2019re all very excited, well I\u2019m not sure if the ducks are excited, they haven\u2019t said. Mum and Dad are the most excited but we\u2019re pretty pleased too. I think Dad is excited as it means he can try out his waders. Until he goes into the pond we don\u2019t actually know how deep the centre is. Dad thought it would be the same as the edges but Mum expects it to be deeper. She had visions of the rope to the anchor for the duck platform being too short and the whole thing sinking. This is another of those \u2018what could go wrong?\u2019 moments in this house. I\u2019ve got a lifejacket and I\u2019ve offered to lend it to Dad just in case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shadow containing her excitement about the duck house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mowing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mum insisted the mower had a grass box to collect the grass. She knew if it didn\u2019t that she and the three of us would tread grass into the house all day. Therefore the mower has a grass box. Dad went out and cut the whole lawn and he didn\u2019t need to empty the grass box once. Sadly, nor was there any grass in it when he came to the end \u2013 it wasn\u2019t fitted properly and all the cutting were all over the grass ready for us to tread into the house, just as Mum had feared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the bright side, there were no crashes when Mum tried manoeuvring the mower in and out of the shed, so that was better than we feared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neighbours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m very disappointed that our only dog neighbour has moved house recently and no longer has a garden which borders ours. It is so much harder to shout over the road to her than it was through the fence. Now I\u2019ve only got the sheep to talk to and if I\u2019m honest they don\u2019t seem to have a lot to say for themselves. I\u2019m left with barking at the postie and other delivery drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The duck house has arrived and Wilma is looking forward to its official launch. We are all excited – maybe Shadow not so much.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,150],"tags":[12,58],"class_list":["post-26266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-2","category-wildlife","tag-gardening","tag-wildlife","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26266","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=26266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}