{"id":8030,"date":"2013-09-12T00:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T23:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=8030"},"modified":"2013-09-12T00:03:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T23:03:45","slug":"thursday-12th-september-2013-yuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2013\/09\/12\/thursday-12th-september-2013-yuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 12th September 2013 &#8211; Yuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018There\u2019s tooth in my cereal, Alfie. That\u2019s gross. I wonder whose it is.\u2019 Now given that my Mistress makes her own cereal and it\u2019s quite hard to hide a large section of tooth inside a frozen blueberry, in my book there were no prizes for what was going to happen next! \u2018Oh, no. My tooth has broken.\u2019 There she sat, cereal bowl in one hand and half a tooth in the other. It wouldn\u2019t be so bad if it hadn\u2019t left a very sharp pointy bit behind. That was yesterday. Now given that my Mistress hates going to dentist as much as I hate water, she has been counting down the hours to her appointment this afternoon. It\u2019s going to be a close run thing between her getting to the dentist and impaling herself on the remaining piece of tooth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/002-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8031\" alt=\"Bird feeder\" src=\"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/002-cropped-193x300.jpg\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\"><\/a>For her birthday last month, one of my Mistress\u2019s presents was a wonderful bird feeder that looks like a detached three storey townhouse. Obviously it\u2019s on a smaller scale than the real thing, or we would have moved into it by now. Anyway, it\u2019s designed for small birds to use and she has hung it from the summer house. It\u2019s taken them a couple of weeks but they have now discovered it and decided it is safe. A little queue of birds lines up along the roof of the summer house and take it in turns to stand on the perches to feed. The best bit is, because of where it is hanging my Mistress can see if from her desk without having to move. She has got her binoculars out and her telephoto lens and is getting happily side-tracked bird-watching when she should be working. At least it\u2019s cheering her up. She was feeling quite down after the tooth incident.<\/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>\u2018There\u2019s tooth in my cereal, Alfie. That\u2019s gross. I wonder whose it is.\u2019 Now given that my Mistress makes her own cereal and it\u2019s quite <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2013\/09\/12\/thursday-12th-september-2013-yuck\/\" title=\"Thursday 12th September 2013 &#8211; Yuck\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-8030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","tag-wildlife","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030","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=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/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=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}