{"id":27094,"date":"2022-12-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=27094"},"modified":"2022-12-14T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T06:00:00","slug":"after-the-battery-wednesday-14th-december-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2022\/12\/14\/after-the-battery-wednesday-14th-december-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"After the battery – Wednesday 14th December 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After the battery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After the battery comes the slow puncture. Mum had to pump the tyres of the car up a couple of weeks ago and thought that was what finished off the battery. Anyway, yesterday when she took Aristotle swimming the tyre had gone down quite a lot again. It isn\u2019t supposed to do that. So now the car is booked in for the tyre to be replaced and she\u2019s trying not to use it until it\u2019s fixed. We\u2019re sincerely hoping that a) she doesn\u2019t break down before it is replaced and b) nothing else goes wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ari\u2019s swimming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ari was very anxious at swimming. He said he really didn\u2019t want to go even though he knew it would do him good. Mum said he was shaking the whole time. He was fine though and had a good swim and as a special treat Mum has given him Alfie\u2019s old dressing gown to wear when he\u2019s been. She thought that might cheer him up a bit. Alfie was bigger than Ari, so it does swamp him a little bit, but in the cold weather he did say he was grateful. She\u2019s given him Alfie\u2019s fleece as well and he\u2019s wondering about wearing that out in the garden as he\u2019s feeling the cold a little at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas 2005 and 2006<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to cover both of these together as I couldn\u2019t find many good photos. In 2005 Alfie was just a very young puppy and still living with his Mama Anka. Mum and Dad did go to visit him around Christmas, but he didn\u2019t move in with them until January. Mum said she can still remember the visit as they took the children and Dad\u2019s parents too. It was in Belgium rather than here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then in 2006 Alfie had a Christmas which was partly in the UK and then back to Belgium afterwards. I can\u2019t find any festive pictures but I did find a picture of him wearing one of his Christmas presents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alfie<\/a>
Supplementing the day job as a security dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

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

After the battery there was the tyre! Things are not going well. Ari went swimming and Wilma looks at Alfie’s first Christmases <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-27094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-aristotle","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27094","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=27094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}