I\u2019m not a cruel dog, it\u2019s just an expression. There\u2019s more than one way to skin a cat. I\u2019m not even sure it\u2019s an expression I should be using, but there it is. Oh we might have a phone charger and now a car charger for the phone, but that doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019ve solved the problem. It\u2019s only any good having a charger if the socket it goes in isn\u2019t faulty. That\u2019s what happens when you fiddle with things and break them. Anyway, if my Mistress plugs the phone into the computer she can still charge it. It\u2019s either that or wedging it at an angle between a pile of books and sticking the charger in with tape. I should be writing a column on a thousand and one uses of duct tape, what with Megan\u2019s paw and now this. Of course there was the boot my Mistress had to stick back together after Megan went through it with her claw on one occasion too. Anyway, I digress. It also seems that my Mistress\u2019s phone is becoming faulty in other ways. I said it may be time for a new phone, but she says she\u2019s only had this one for five minutes, for which you can read \u2018two years\u2019 but time flies as you get old. She likes her phone. It\u2019s purple. She\u2019s easily pleased. I said why didn\u2019t she get an i-phone. After all she envies some of the applications her friends use. I should have known it wouldn\u2019t be that easy. You\u2019d like to think she said something like \u2018Alfie, I don\u2019t think I should be spending that much.\u2019 But no, she had two reasons against the i-phone. First and foremost \u2013 it isn\u2019t purple! Oh dear, what shall I do with her? I was just despairing when she added, \u2018Besides I like to be different and everyone else has i-phones.\u2019 At this point I gave up. Being different is fine if it\u2019s because you have thought things through and found a better solution. Of course you should resist following the crowd if that\u2019s the case, but if the crowd is a crowd for a reason, isn\u2019t it better to join them just once in a while?<\/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 You can find short stories to read at www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"