{"id":26650,"date":"2022-08-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26650"},"modified":"2022-08-10T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:00:00","slug":"sunflower-wednesday-10th-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/sunflower-wednesday-10th-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflower – Wednesday 10th August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunflower<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am very proud to be able to reveal to you Aristotle\u2019s first ever success at growing a sunflower from seed. In our old village there was a sunflower growing competition. The first time he tried, none of Aristotle\u2019s seeds even germinated. On the second occasion a few came through and were unceremoniously eaten by slugs. This time he kept them in the greenhouse until they got going and then put coffee around their bases when he planted them. It might only be about two feet tall but he is very proud of this year\u2019s results and is planning to save some seeds from it to try again next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vet trip<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Well I\u2019m not going to the vet again. It was awful. Mum made me get on the scales. Now, you know I\u2019m overweight, I know I\u2019m overweight but I wasn\u2019t planning to do anything about it. Yes, I broke open a bag of dog food last week. Yes, I spend a lot of time foraging for apples in the garden, but I don\u2019t expect to have to stand on the scales. There is no getting away from the fact that I am overweight. It\u2019s more than muscle and I can\u2019t pretend anymore. My food is being cut by 1\/3 with immediate effect. I am having no biscuits during the day at all. I am going to be doing more exercise from today. Mum has told me I\u2019ll feel better for it, but I\u2019m not at the stage of seeing it for myself just yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allergies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Incidentally my eye is an allergy issue, but that didn\u2019t seem important after being told I was going on a very strict diet. Shadow is back on antibiotics, so hopefully she will be feeling better soon too. Oh, but a diet, that\u2019s worse than anything I can imagine. I love food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Aristotle has grown his first sunflower. Wilma’s trip to the vet had unexpected consequences and she’s not happy.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,113],"tags":[12,118,27,93],"class_list":["post-26650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-2","category-health","tag-gardening","tag-health","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26650","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=26650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}