{"id":8111,"date":"2013-10-12T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2013-10-12T00:03:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T23:03:17","slug":"saturday-12th-october-2013-the-moment-weve-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2013\/10\/12\/saturday-12th-october-2013-the-moment-weve-been-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 12th October 2013 – The moment we’ve been waiting for"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Parsnip<\/a>No, Shadow hasn\u2019t started her season, I\u2019m talking vegetable moments here. Yesterday my Mistress decided that the time was right to see how the root vegetables were doing and maybe eat one or two. She picked a carrot, which turned out to be the first one there will be any point slicing and which is bigger than a baby carrot. It\u2019s not huge and won\u2019t feed a whole rabbit but it\u2019s better than the others so far. Then she picked two parsnips which were about the same size as the carrot and because she wanted to do roast parsnips she picked a third one. Well, it wouldn\u2019t pull out. She has to dig the soil away to get the parsnip out of the ground. By her standards it was huge! Anyway she felt the need to take a photograph to prove it and positioned a serving spoon alongside to demonstrate its respectable size. This is her biggest organic gardening success and she will be talking about it until something better comes out of the ground. In my estimation that could be a very long time.<\/p>\n

Aristotle is very excited. He heard my Master and Mistress talking about planning a trip to Switzerland in the spring to attend the breeding test there so that my Master can see it all at first hand. Anyway, he heard my Mistress saying that maybe they will just take him with them so that he could meet his father and see Switzerland. He\u2019d be able to visit Megan too. He\u2019s the only one of us that hasn\u2019t been to Switzerland so it\u2019s only right he should have the opportunity. I don\u2019t like to tell him that I heard my Mistress saying she might put him through his ectopic ureter test while she is there, not because he is going to be breeding but to help in the study they are doing. At that point I was quite glad it was him going and not me. Still, it\u2019s early days yet so it may not happen.<\/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":"

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