{"id":6478,"date":"2012-07-16T00:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2012-07-16T00:05:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T23:05:23","slug":"monday-16th-july-2012-i-thought-it-was-supposed-to-be-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/16\/monday-16th-july-2012-i-thought-it-was-supposed-to-be-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 16th July 2012 &#8211; I thought it was supposed to be five&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold rings! I thought that it was supposed to be five gold rings in the song. Anyway it seems in this house it\u2019s six! Yesterday, to celebrate their anniversary my Master and Mistress went and bought new wedding rings. Now I know they are supposed to last the lifetime of the marriage and I know you\u2019re going to tell me it\u2019s typical of the modern generation to want new things all the time, but it really isn\u2019t like that. Their original rings do not fit. In my Mistress\u2019s case that is the extent that she nearly lost one part when it fell off her finger at the top of the hill down the road and she had to chase it. The truth is they\u2019ve never really fitted properly and the style they are can\u2019t be altered. So now they are having brand new matching rings or at least they will be when the shop makes them a size that will fit!<\/p>\n<p>I was not best pleased with Aristotle yesterday evening. He managed to be in the kitchen when they were cooking their tea and they\u2019d got it into their heads that what they really wanted to eat was pancakes. My gripe with Aristotle is that my Mistress has her \u2018pretend\u2019 pancakes with maple syrup and bacon and Ari was there to help eat it. How did I come to have decided that point to be elsewhere? Your guess is as good as mine but it was a bad move. I\u2019m rather partial to maple syrup myself. I did feel rather sorry for my Mistress though. She decided to try a new type of flour as the rice flour she has does not make good pancakes. Anyway, if for any reason you have ever considered trying to make buckwheat pancakes can I just recommend that you don\u2019t. They taste quite disgusting. The smell gave enough of a clue before it went anywhere near anyone\u2019s mouth!<\/p>\n<p>Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:alfie@alfiedog.me.uk\">alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find short stories to read at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfiedog.com\/\">www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Gold rings! I thought that it was supposed to be five gold rings in the song. Anyway it seems in this house it\u2019s six! Yesterday, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/07\/16\/monday-16th-july-2012-i-thought-it-was-supposed-to-be-five\/\" title=\"Monday 16th July 2012 &#8211; I thought it was supposed to be five&#8230;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-6478","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\/6478","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}