Well, my Mistress certainly listened when I explained how hard life had become. Since then she\u2019s been keeping us apart, but yesterday she sat down with us all to explain that Megan is going to be moving. She\u2019s going to Switzerland to be with her family. You should have seen the mixed emotions on her pretty little face. She said she\u2019s going to miss my Mistress but can\u2019t wait to see her family there. She misses the mountains. There really is nothing round here that comes close to the scenery where she started life. Once she\u2019s been away from Shadow for a while and really settled back in she\u2019s going to have another chance of having puppies of her own, so it\u2019s all very positive. It\u2019s just possible that if she manages to have puppies one of her little girl puppies will come back to live her. I said if that happened, please could she promise not to encourage the puppy to be nasty to me as I\u2019m just a soppy old dog who wants a quiet old age. She smiled and said she thought she could do that. She\u2019s got the most beautiful smile when she smiles. I know my Mistress will really miss her. Megan\u2019s smile has been immortalised on our Club logo so we\u2019ll always see her smiling at us. She will go when Shadow comes into season and my Mistress has to travel to Switzerland anyway. In the meantime I shall spend my time in another room, safely out of the way.<\/p>\n
The apple harvest has taken place in the back garden. It took something in the region of three minutes to firstly pick up the eating apple which had both unceremoniously fallen onto the ground and then actually pick the eight cooking apples from the tree. It may not sound much but it\u2019s eight more than we had last year. To be fair the trees were only planted last year so they are very young. There is a pear to be brought in, but it\u2019s not quite ready and to be honest looking at it, even when it is no one is going to want to eat it. The blackberries aren\u2019t doing too badly and we\u2019re hoping there might be enough by the time they have all been collected for one lot of blackberry sorbet. I\u2019m just hoping that the stewed apple is shared out evenly including me.<\/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":"