{"id":7920,"date":"2013-08-05T00:02:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T23:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=7920"},"modified":"2013-08-05T00:02:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T23:02:56","slug":"monday-5th-august-2013-a-little-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2013\/08\/05\/monday-5th-august-2013-a-little-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 5th August 2013 &#8211; A little operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow is fed up that she can\u2019t have breakfast today. She said it wasn\u2019t that she was actually feeling hungry and in need of breakfast, it\u2019s just the principle of it. As soon as you are told you can\u2019t have something, you inevitably want it more than would otherwise. Anyway, she can\u2019t as she\u2019s having an anaesthetic. She\u2019ll be off to the vet this morning to have her toe seen too. I said she\u2019d got bunions and the trendy high heels she wears won\u2019t have made things any better. She pointed out that she might have a long sock on her front left paw but she has never worn shoes in her life. Megan asked if eating shoes counted. Mind you, she only ate the one she had to wear when she had a bad paw. She\u2019s never worn any other shoes.<\/p>\n<p>What is it with women and shoes? My Mistress had a lovely pair that matched the dress she was wearing my Granny\u2019s party but said she didn\u2019t want to wear them as they had high heels and a) would be hard to stand around in and b) she would sink into the grass when she went round the grounds of the place they were visiting. Instead she wore some canvas shoes which \u2026 got soaked walking through the wet grass in the grounds of the place they were at. It was quite close to a village she used to live in and which she has very happy memories of. Before she came home she drove round the village and came away quite disappointed saying it just wasn\u2019t quite how she remembered it. In her mind she\u2019d erased the not so good bits and replaced them with some imagined bits. This only proves the dangers of going back. It\u2019s something that has been worrying me about my holiday in Belgium. I\u2019ve not been back apart from one visit about six months after we left, since we lived there and that was 5 years ago. I just know it\u2019s not going to be the same.<\/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>Shadow is fed up that she can\u2019t have breakfast today. She said it wasn\u2019t that she was actually feeling hungry and in need of breakfast, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2013\/08\/05\/monday-5th-august-2013-a-little-operation\/\" title=\"Monday 5th August 2013 &#8211; A little operation\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[51,10,27],"class_list":["post-7920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-family","tag-family-2","tag-megan","tag-shadow","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920","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=7920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/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=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}