Aristotle was in the dog house yesterday. He wanted to play ball but my Mistress was busy so he decided that we didn\u2019t need humans in order to play. He went to fetch a ball out of the bag which is by the back door and then came back to the office. He climbed up on the settee so he could get some distance into it and then threw the ball for his mother to fetch. Shadow thought it was great. She\u2019s always up for a game of ball and was quite happy for Ari to be the ball thrower, so she brought it back to him. He threw it again and they would have carried on all day if my Mistress hadn\u2019t put her foot down and told them they were not to play in the house. It wasn\u2019t that they were likely to knock things off with the ball, it did bounce but not too high. It was Shadow charging round the office to fetch it that really caused the problems. I suppose my cheering on the sidelines didn\u2019t help it being a quiet Sunday either. I said Ari should get a summer job as a ball boy at Wimbledon. I wonder if they have thought of using dogs instead of humans. I\u2019m sure we could do a good job and it doesn\u2019t look as though Ari would need a great deal of training in the role, probably no more than the humans that do take part.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s weird. I had got so used to wet weather that I\u2019m finding this long spell of fairly dry weather very odd. I keep expecting a heavy shower to appear out of nowhere. The ground is even drying out for the first time in months. I don\u2019t know whether to relax and expect it to continue or take an umbrella everywhere, just in case!<\/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":"