Well that certainly scared me. There was a spider. And before you get the wrong idea, I\u2019m not scared of spiders. It was not the spider that made me jump out of my bed wondering what on earth was going on. It was Mum. You see, the problem is that she is scared of spiders. She had woken up and was sitting up in bed in the middle of the night, with the light on but without her glasses. She never appreciates fast moving, eight-legged visitors when she hasn\u2019t got her glasses on. I was rudely awoken by Mum thrashing wildly at the duvet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was fully expecting the house to be on fire at the very least, but it was just an unwelcome visitor. Thankfully, although the excitement stopped Mum sleeping for a good while, I had no such problem so asked her not to disturb me again and went back to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I keep changing my mind about my favourite spot in the garden. I do like sitting in the shade under a tree. What I do particularly like is the ones that give me the best view of what\u2019s going on. I can while away many happy hours sitting doing nothing more than sniffing the breeze and listening to what is going on around me. I\u2019m always alert and ready for action. Rarely am I actually called upon to take any action, but that\u2019s beside the point. There is nothing better on a sunny day to simply sit and enjoy my surroundings. Frankly, I think Mum could learn quite a lot from my approach. She seems to need to spend time \u2018doing\u2019 rather than \u2018being\u2019. I\u2019m trying to train her, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m getting very far. Maybe I need to use higher value treats when training her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well it certainly scared me – says Wilma, who shot out of bed thinking there must be a fire. Thankfully there wasn’t.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,150],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-26338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-wildlife","tag-wildlife","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338","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=26338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}