It\u2019s all a bit complicated, but my grandparents didn\u2019t come to stay for the weekend after all. A friend of James has swine flu and they didn\u2019t want to take the risk. More to the point, my Mistress didn\u2019t want them to take the risk after all, my granddad will be 84 next month, although you\u2019d never believe that as he is healthier than all the rest of us. So it\u2019s just us as normal and a quiet weekend.<\/p>\n
Shadow and I have started to have one or two arguments over whose turn it is with the gigantic chew that we\u2019ve got. We don\u2019t normally fight but we had a bit of a barney over it and my Mistress has to intervene. She told us both off and said that the chew will be removed if we don\u2019t behave ourselves. She says she won\u2019t stand for barking in the house. We\u2019re allowed to bark outside if we want to, but not indoors. I suppose it seems reasonable when you think she applies the same rule to the children and shouting.<\/p>\n
I am very upset to see there is going to be a post strike next week. It means an extra day without the biscuit that our postman, Brian, brings us every day that he\u2019s working. I\u2019m wondering if we could persuade him to come round to play with us for the day as he won\u2019t have to be out delivering post. He really is a very special postman and we know we\u2019re very lucky to have him. He was explaining what the strike was about the other day and inconvenient as it may be to us, they really do have a point. I suppose you appreciate the cost of the postal service more when you live in a village and realise how much it costs to travel to the shops or for that matter any service. When you live in a city it\u2019s amazing the things that you more easily take for granted.<\/p>\n
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