{"id":26692,"date":"2022-08-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=26692"},"modified":"2022-08-21T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T05:00:00","slug":"chair-wars-sunday-21st-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/08\/21\/chair-wars-sunday-21st-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair Wars – Sunday 21st August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chair wars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The three of us seem to have embarked on chair wars. We all want to sit in the chair with Mum. And I do mean all, including Shadow. I\u2019m pretty good at sharing, especially as I know it\u2019s my place by rights and I did have first dibs on it yesterday. Then when I went to fetch an apple as a little elevenses snack, Shadow immediately asked if she could have a go. There is nothing more guaranteed to make Aristotle want something than seeing his mother with it. As soon as Shadow asked, he stuck his nose out saying he thought it should be his turn next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shadow climbing up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ari not wanting to miss out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Me very comfortable with Mum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Me having a nap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He did have a turn the day before and Shadow didn\u2019t, so Mum helped Shadow up to join her. I can\u2019t remember the last time I\u2019ve seen Shadow that happy. She loved it and would have stayed all day if Aristotle hadn\u2019t got impatient and started barking at the top of his voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sad day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Today is going to be quite a sad day. Mum has sold Alfie\u2019s car. The good news is that it is going to friends so we\u2019ll still know how it\u2019s doing. Mum has had the car for 24 years almost to the day, so it really is quite a big step. Unfortunately because of her knee problems she really wouldn\u2019t be able to drive it anymore and she says it\u2019s a car that really needs to be driven. It became Alfie\u2019s car because it was the one Mum drove all the time for the first year or so when they lived in Belgium. That was when Alfie was born, so he grew up seeing the car as his own and loved driving with the top down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ari wanting to drive Alfie’s car<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By the time Mum had got the rest of us we wouldn\u2019t all fit, so we had to have something more practical. Mum says that she and Alfie had many happy times going out in the car together, just the two of them as there wasn\u2019t room for anyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Chair wars have broken out between Wilma, Aristotle and Shadow. It’s more that Aristotle is complaining than the others.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[109,63,27,93],"class_list":["post-26692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-alfie","tag-aristotle","tag-shadow","tag-wilma","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692","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=26692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}