After a year of storytelling absence, you will be forgiven for assuming that the Golden One would now be a well behaved, compliant and respectful house mate who wipes his feet on entry and sits on his bed looking elegant and wistful until welly walking time…… As I said, you’re forgiven. He’s not.
He is approximately 35 Kilos of turbo engineered enthusiasm, 24/7. He loves people tiny and tall, all creatures both great and small as well as edible and completely inedible stuff of all shapes, colours, textures and tastes; unless of course, its dog food, he’s not quite so keen on that. I think it has something to do with the non-conformist attitude he adopted the same day he became part of The Clan. Wonder what he saw in us lot that he thought needed shaking up a bit….
We’ve read the books, listened to the audio tapes, gained friendly and helpful advice from those who know (they just don’t know ‘you know who’; try saying that after a Hazy Jane or two.) And we haven’t yet mastered the art of not jumping up, well we have but The Golden One most definitely hasn’t…sorry our little artful dodger, but he loves you, particularly as you’re a regular snacker and your head height is the most convenient for grab ‘n’ go.
There’s a saying about there being “no such thing as a badly behaved dog, only badly behaved owners”, well we must be in need of an ASBO or two between us.
I’d imagined, after about 6 months of bedding in, we’d be planning restful barge holidays, meandering around Britains canals through the countryside, drinking Veuve and waving at landlubbers while our docile canine slept with one eye open whilst enjoying the cruise… hmmmmm, silly me.
2021 – We have arrived…. Happy New Year, Happy New House and Happy New baby on the way!
Looking forward is the way to go following a year of uncertainty, disappointments, ill health and even worse for some. Staying in has changed from choice to necessity and patience and virtues have become must-have qualities to survive the confinements of Lockdown.
Shiny Happy People
Our little people have all been stars, shiny bright sparkly stars just twinkling away the time, being their inquisitive, cheeky selves and getting on with growing and learning about all things worldly and wonderful and much like us growing tired of using the ’virus’ word. Let’s hope the most used word of 2021 is something inspirational and motivational and science allows us the freedom to roam, and I don’t mean the technical version!
Have you seen my Crocs? 