Another
night with a bed full of dogs… Whilst perhaps not the best night’s sleep, it
wasn’t the worst though. I eventually woke after a half-way decent nine hours
sleep with a backache. If I can stay asleep long enough I usually wake with a
backache.
Leaving “er indoors TM” and the
dogs asleep I got up, made toast and had a look at the Internet in the
desperate hope that it was worth looking at. The first think I saw was that I’d
been asked to sign a petition. Did you know that we pay VAT on dog food and vet
bills, but the sort of people who eat caviar don’t pay any VAT on it. Am I
being overly cynical in thinking that is because the sort of people who eat
caviar vote for our conservative government, and this is (in some small way)
a vote-winner?
There’s
a petition about the matter you can sign here.
I’ve signed it… but I
wonder how much good it will do. I’m not running the organiser (Dogs Trust)
down, but back in the day when “Daddy’s Little Angel TM” was
running a shop she offered to have one of their collecting tins on the counter…
they never took up the offer. And before that, the Dogs Trust flatly refused to
allow a collecting tin in a local pet shop whilst welcoming them in tattoo
studios.
I
spent an hour working on putting hints into a Wherigo cartridge, then we took
the dogs for a walk. Somewhere different today – from Eureka Park up to Sandyhurst
Lane. The dogs had a good run, we avoided pretty much al of the normal people..
and we found a geocache too. Result.
We
came home and spent half an hour playing Lego. I made the set I got for my
birthday; “er indoors TM” made the Lego flowers she’d
got for Christmas.
“er indoors TM” then went off to visit “Daddy’s
Little Angel TM”, “Stormageddon – Bringer of Destruction TM”
and “Darcie Waa Waa TM”.
I went to bed for the afternoon, but again the dogs huddled up to me and the
four of us had a quarter of the bed
whilst the bit that “er indoors TM” lies in
remained sacrosanct.
“er indoors TM” is boiling up dinner,
then I’m off to the night shift. I can’t pretend I’m overly keen on them… but I
do resent doing them on a weekend day. Perhaps I should jack it all in and retire?
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