A Life in the Day....

Monday, 10.30pm

Thought for the Day - Lamb with black pudding = food heaven
Pug Status - Power-napping

My seventh wedding anniversary today - funny, I don't recall breaking a mirror....?!

To celebrate another year of wedded bliss I decided to cook a three-course meal for the significant other. Slightly influenced by watching the Celebrity Masterchef final on iPlayer last night, I nearly trod in more than I could chew. However, the wife did the decent thing by clearing her plate and, no, it wasn't straight in the bin. A little help from Gary Rhodes and a slight twist on an old dessert and it all went to plan. Spent the rest of the evening imitating a space-hopper on the sofa.

And, as I slaved in the kitchen all afternoon, did I receive any guidance from Obi Pug Kenobi? Fine words butter no parsnips, they say, and neither do bone-idle spoilt pugs.

Let me run you through a typical pug itinerary:

08:30 - Wake up, normally from a prone position across my Mum's pillow on Mum and Dad's bed. Wait to be carried downstairs.
08:35 - Outside to water the garden. Quick pit-stop at the bowls for water and dog biscuits.
08:37 - Pester my Dad (that's me) to give up his chair at the breakfast table, moving to the next one, so I can lie on the chair next to Mum and have some of her toast.
08:40 - 12:30 - Asleep.
12:31- Wake up, turn round.
12:32 - Move to comfy armchair or sofa.
13:00 - Wake up, leg stretch and then decide to accompany Mum on her daily walk out and about the local streets. She always asks me to go with her - perhaps she is too scared to on on her own...?
13:40 - Fold myself up in the grateful comfort of the armchair for a hard earned sleep and a paw rest.
17:51 - Outside for exercise.
17:53 - Inside for water and biscuits.
18:30 - Frenzied activity - food bowls being prepared - will it be liver or chicken breast.....?
18:40 - Bowl licked clean. Garden ablutions.
18:50 - 23:00 - Sleep, complimented by occasional barking back at barking dogs or seagulls on TV.
23:05 - Up to bed and then to sleep, not before having my bedtime doggy chocs and Princess Mints.

It's a dog's life....