{"id":5672,"date":"2011-12-08T00:03:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=5672"},"modified":"2011-12-08T00:03:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:03:48","slug":"thursday-8th-december-2012-my-mistress-is-eccentric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2011\/12\/08\/thursday-8th-december-2012-my-mistress-is-eccentric\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 8th December 2011 – My Mistress is eccentric"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m glad you all liked the picture of Shadow from yesterday. Please stop giving Ari ideas about running off with the ornaments in the background. It\u2019s interesting they look like little Santas. They are in fact a family of gnomes. Years ago before Shadow was on the scene all the humans had a paint your own gnome for Christmas. Each one is painted according to the adult that painted it, except the one in the box in the kitchen which was my Master\u2019s gnome. He was too busy helping Andy to paint his as Andy was quite small at the time. Helen\u2019s is painted with nail varnish rather than paint. My Mistress added some white paint to her gnome\u2019s hat, making it look like a trickle of bird poo down the back. Everyone else said it was in bad taste, but her argument was that it was more realistic! To be fair, the whole family regards my Mistress as slightly eccentric. They came in to find her wearing a pair of reindeer antlers yesterday and no one said a word. When she was upset that no one had \u2018noticed\u2019 they explained that they had but just thought \u2018Well it\u2019s what Rosemary\u2019s do\u2019.<\/p>\n

I guess you can see where they are coming from when you hear that she has decided how<\/p>\n

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Me and him<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

she wants to decorate the summerhouse, if she ever finished the insulation project. She is going to buy two copies of a number of her favourite books and then paste them page by page across the walls so that in dull moments you can read whole novels or poems. I hope the ones just puts at dog eye height aren\u2019t too intellectual. Ari might be called Aristotle and my real name might be Einstein but that doesn\u2019t mean we are intellectual dogs. It just means we have grand names.<\/p>\n

I suppose now I\u2019ve started on the eccentric vein I should give you the full set and tell you she has named her car. She hasn\u2019t had a car that has needed a name for many years. The last one was just \u2018the Alfa\u2019 and mine is just \u2018the barchetta\u2019 but she decided that this one needed a name. She looked up the names of all the cars in Wacky Races and although she toyed with \u2018The bouldermobile\u2019 and \u2018The crimson haybailer\u2019 she settled on \u2018Garfield\u2019 who wasn\u2019t in Wacky Races at all. Garfield is a CAT! Has she lost her mind?<\/p>\n

Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK –https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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