Ari has been increasingly disappearing off to other parts of the house while my Mistress is working. She thought he was in the bed in the kitchen, but it turns out he\u2019s been sleeping in one bed after another upstairs. She went into the spare bedroom and found the duvet all ruffled and covered in dog hair. Then she went into Andy\u2019s room and sure enough the same was true of his bed\u2026 and the settee\u2026 and her bed! When confronted he explained that he seeks out the warmest spot in the house and then moves to another one when his fancy takes him. It has been explained to him that the guest room is out of bounds and that just because our Mistress has red hair does not mean he can act out the story of The Three Bears with her having to go round the house saying \u2018Who\u2019s been sleeping in my bed?\u2019 Besides which, in the story it is Goldilocks who gets to do the sleeping and I think our Mistress might be a little bit jealous.<\/p>\n
I had to go swimming yesterday. I didn\u2019t think it was my week, but my Mistress is concerned that with my lack of desire to go for a walk I\u2019m not doing enough exercise and am losing muscle tone. Does she really think at my age I still want to be working on a six-pack stomach? I was thinking of entering my dotage getting slowly unfit and flabby, but apparently while that might be all right for many humans it is not what she is expecting of me. I guess she is leading by example by trying to get into shape herself, but I\u2019m not keen. She\u2019s even asking how she can get me to go for more walks with her, but I just shrugged. It\u2019s cold and windy out there and I\u2019m not keen. She even said perhaps we should get me a treadmill, but quite honestly, what is the point in that. The only point of going for walks is to sniff everything along the way and if I can\u2019t do that it\u2019s just a chore.<\/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":"