My Mistress is a very organised person\u2026 most of the time! She has learnt from some of her mistakes last year and is trying to make sure everything is completely ready for Shadow to give birth. Whelping pen \u2013 tick. Scales \u2013 tick. Heat pad for struggling puppies \u2013 tick. Food supplies so she doesn\u2019t go hungry \u2013 tick. Puppy pen to hold the puppies when she has to move them round and keep them safe \u2013 tick. Bolts for puppy pen\u2026 Bolts for puppy pen!!! Where did she put the bolts for the puppy pen? Now she\u2019s searched the garage, the summerhouse, the utility, the garden store and pretty much everywhere else she can think of and so far no sign of the bolts. She then decided she had wasted enough time so there was nothing else for it but to contact the company she bought it from and ask for them to send some more by express delivery. Now you\u2019d think that would solve the problem. You\u2019d be wrong. The company stopped supplying that particular puppy pen not long after we bought it and funnily enough now sell one that has little hooks that make the bolts superfluous. I\u2019m guessing we are not alone in losing the little bolts. She recalls they were very easy to do up and so would like something similar. That was a cue to waste more time trawling the internet looking for appropriate fixings. If she has measured correctly the hole is 0.5cms. All the bolts she could find were 0.6cms. At this point it was decided there was nothing else for it but to go to the hardware store armed with two of the panels to see if they could supply something suitable. The moral of this story is that there is a reason you should always tape the fixings for a piece of equipment \/ furniture etc to the pieces when you put it in to storage. Sadly it is one my Mistress overlooked at her cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This afternoon the man is coming to set the camera up on Shadow ready for the big day. Check back here for all the progress reports on who is who and how they are all doing. I\u2019m almost letting myself get a little bit excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alfie Dog with a little help from Rosemary J Kind alfie@alfiedog.me.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK –https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find short stories to read at www.alfiedog.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"