It turned out to be quite a funny day yesterday. It was dull and cold so we didn\u2019t feel like spending the day outdoors. My Master was ill in bed because his lumbago has set in, so we weren\u2019t allowed to curl up on the duvet as he didn\u2019t want disturbing. In protest, Shadow peed on the floor of the guest bathroom and my Mistress was very cross with her. My grandparents went home so they weren\u2019t around to play with, which meant it was one of those nothing sorts of days when you don\u2019t know what to do with yourself and everything you feel like doing is thwarted. My Mistress spent half the day doing lots of loads of washing from things James had used at the weekend horse riding. He\u2019d been sleeping in a horse trailer and I have to say his sleeping bag smelt particularly savoury! My Mistress hung everything out, as much to air them, as dry them but then had to keep checking that it wasn\u2019t raining.<\/p>\n
The only really fun bit in all of it was that my Mistress stayed in contact with my Master by walkie talkie. She has some she used to use when she went cycling. My Master wanted to know what her \u2018call sign\u2019 was going to be and she decided on \u2018Bay Leaf\u2019 after the gardener in the children\u2019s tv programme when she was young. I asked if I could have a go. I wanted to be \u2018Gladiator\u2019 as I thought it sounded cool, but she said it wasn\u2019t a toy and I wasn\u2019t allowed to play with it. Shadow wanted to be \u2018Barbie\u2019 but she wasn\u2019t allowed to play either. I asked if my Mistress had any spare empty tin cans so that Shadow and I could at least pretend, but my Mistress was worried that we\u2019d cut ourselves on the edges. Health and safety gets in the way of so many fun things these days.<\/p>\n
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