When I spoke to my Mistress last night after a good start to the day yesterday things didn\u2019t go quite so well later. They had a lovely time with my mum and sister. Apparently, my sister is going greyer than I am, which didn\u2019t make me feel so bad about my grey. They heard news of my other brother and sisters and they are all well, although one of my half-sisters died last year. She was older than we are by a couple of years, but everyone else is well, which is good news.<\/p>\n
The less good news was that both of the pet shops we used to go to have closed. One it turns out has moved and they simply didn\u2019t find it, but the other has gone altogether. Worse than that, the hardware store no longer sells the great big metre long dog chews. I was heart-broken, I\u2019d really got my hopes up about that. As if that wasn\u2019t enough, on Valentine\u2019s Day when they arrived at their lovely hotel, the desk didn\u2019t have their reservation and then put them in a room that wasn\u2019t so good and where the internet connection didn\u2019t work. They were told it would be ok if they changed room. So they packed up and moved to a room on a different floor\u2026where there was no internet signal! As if that wasn\u2019t enough, there was no space in the restaurant and my Mistress felt thoroughly fed up. I did try to cheer her up by telling her how much I was looking forward to seeing her and she said she felt much the same. It was one of those times where you just wanted to say \u2013 \u2018there\u2019s nowhere quite like home\u2019. If nothing else a holiday is good for making you appreciate just what you\u2019ve left behind and as I\u2019m part of the \u2018what\u2019s been left behind\u2019 that seems like quite a good thing to me.<\/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":"