{"id":6562,"date":"2012-08-11T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T23:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=6562"},"modified":"2012-08-11T00:05:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T23:05:21","slug":"saturday-11th-august-2012-shes-got-her-mojo-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/11\/saturday-11th-august-2012-shes-got-her-mojo-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 11th August 2012 – She’s got her Mojo back"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Mistress was suffering, I think, from post-holiday blues. Even though she had the result of her grade 2 keyboard and it was better than she\u2019d thought, she didn\u2019t feel like practicing the keyboard. Even though our short story site is going well, she was struggling to feel like getting back into the swing of working. She didn\u2019t really want to do anything. Then yesterday, she had her keyboard lesson and even though she hasn\u2019t practiced she could do things she was struggling with before. Then she read a story that has been submitted for www.alfiedog.com<\/a> and she had tears streaming down her face and remembered all the reasons she started on the project in the first place. Sometimes when you can\u2019t find something you have to look in unusual places and when it\u2019s your mojo that\u2019s gone missing you have to look even more carefully. So here we are, back to normal with my Mistress ready to take on the world and planning all sorts of crazy things.<\/p>\n

She has also said that thanks to the Olympics she has a new role model. Oh there are many many para-olympians who are superb role models, but she has decided that Nick Skelton\u2019s example is the one she needed. She was fed up that as she is getting older bits of her body aren\u2019t working how they used to. She was feeling pretty down about the prospect of a knuckle replacement, seeing it as being the failure of her body through age. Now, as the commentator reeled off the things Nick Skelton has been through as a result of riding accidents she has started to look at it all a different way. The replacement isn\u2019t because she\u2019s getting older. It\u2019s because she pushed her body to the limits and a little beyond and she just needs a new part to keep going. Let\u2019s just see it as the first step towards her becoming our very own Bionic Woman!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably a good time to congratulate the British Olympic team and to thank them for an example that we can all take to heart. For all you have given up, all you have pushed your way through, all the times your bodies have ached but you\u2019ve kept going, and for the pride and success you have brought to us all, thank you. From all of us, thank you.<\/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":"

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