Ah the little loves are desperate for a walk on the Heath, I haven't brought them in a few days...and it shows. Apparently the thing a dog needs most of all in its life is exercise, that is number one. After that, discipline, after that, affection. Don't remember where I read that but it strikes me as true. They certainly are a lot more relaxed after a good long walk on Hampstead Heath...
Unfortunately, I've been busy, and on Saturday night got stupidly drunk and ended up aching so badly I could barely walk the next two days...alcohol, it's bad for you...in excessive amounts! Anyway, so yesterday they barely got taken out, three times only to the green, the local park and the dog exercise area at Cantelowes, and I KNOW they're desperately in need of a good run... but it just isn't always as simple, and the way they went nuts when the postman arrived made me so bloody cross! I did exactly what you're NOT meant to do, which was shout at them and hit them...oh, don't call the RSPCA, I only used the envelope, very light, that had just been delivered...but still, very bad to do, and very much an index of how I'm feeling generally: stressed, anxious, upset, tense, nervous....I have to drive all the way to Scotland, to my young nephew's funeral, on Thursday, and I'm far from being ready for it...and should be busy getting sorted and packed, as we're then going on to Ireland by ferry, but somehow the motivation seems to be lacking, even though I know I have to get this list of things done...
My poor lovely doggies, I wish my daughter would help more! But she's a selfish near-teen who moans and makes it harder work to get her to do anything than it is to do it myself...very frustrating...
Just to remind myself how lovely they are, here's a photo of Spidey as a puppy...
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