On a Saturday I, as regular readers will know (although I shudder to think what someone would get from reading every single entry I make, this is why I have started illustrating them so that when you see the link on Twitter and Facebook you can decide whether it is for you or not - the only flaw is that the blog is read by far more people than follow me on Facebook and Twitter so whoever these people are I don't know, maybe they're planning to kill me one day and want to try and establish a pattern of my movements, it might be the ice-cream man), I take Jack to the park for a run around on a Saturday late morning. However you may remember that he got into a fight with another dog last week and I was going to buy a bike lock for the gate. We had planned to take Jack to town for a walk along the canal today so given that he was going to get plenty of exercise I didn't bother. The vet once said that we provide very well for him regarding walks so it isn't as if missing the park will make him unfit.
Yes, this is mainly a blog about Jack so this is your chance to bail out now and go through the list of subjects below and find something more interesting to read. I am aware that me writing about my dog and posting pictures of him are as annoying as people on Facebook who bang on about their new baby as though they were the first person ever to become a parent.
For some reason I was in a pretty crotchety mood this morning, perhaps caused by the pressure of knowing I had the podcast to record and a pile of work mounting up in my office. It didn't help that breakfast was a bit of a disaster thanks to the lack of cooking oil in the house to fry with so I had to have cereal and toast instead of anything hot (first world problems) and was hungry when we went to town. It was one of those moods where everything and everyone annoys you for the smallest reason but it soon faded once enough caffeine and nicotine had been allowed to flow through my system.
Jack (you were warned about the majority of content regarding this blog) is a lot better now following his fight. He has got his energy back now and doesn't yelp when you touch his ear, although his ear is still pretty gammy looking. Motorbikes and birds are no longer safe from his ire, and he hasn't learned his lesson regarding other dogs and still barks at them, it is nice when the other dog barks first because it looks like the other dog started it. We had a nice afternoon walking along the canal and stopped for a coffee in the retail park after which we took Jack into Pets at Home, who allow you to take dogs in providing they behave themselves. He now has a new collar and lead although I'm not sure that barking at rabbits and pissing up against a corner unit was behaviour that deserved a present, you wouldn't reward a child for that sort of carry on by buying them something nice.
This week's edition of The Sunday Alternative can be heard here.
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April housekeeping
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