Catching Up

Hello,

Mummy feels up to helping me today and we are at home instead of going for a long walk (we had two short walks but I asked to go home) because it is raining and raining…I don’t really like getting soaked. I do, however, really enjoy getting towelled down afterwards – it feels lovely! Mummy and Auntie were very cross about the Eurovision Song Contest. Everybody knew that the UK song didn’t deserve to do well, but when not one Western European song did well, and some of those were good songs, Mummy said it was obvious that something has to be done. She says that they should have an Eastern and a Western semi-final and then the top ten of each should compete and only those countries should be able to vote, though the others could vote to decide if there was split decision…Mummy says they’ll have to do something about it or the countries that pay the most, who are all from the West, will pull their money out…I have had some lovely walks with Melody.

Auntie Geri still has great plans for her Hypnobirthing business – she is setting up a conference and has had her first successful births so she is very happy. When I go round for her, she sticks her pointy head out of the cat flap and we whine and bark to each other until the door is opened. Then Melody does this funny thing when she comes out of her door, where she dances to the end of her lead and leaps and twists in the air, all smily face and wiggles, and then she darts back to heel and out again until she feels ready to walk sensibly. She isn’t allowed to go off the lead because she doesn’t always come back and goes off and gets herself cut up on hedges and stones and things (she cuts really easily) so this is her only chance to have a mad skitter.

Dylan and Bella are well. When Melody met them, Bella took a step back – I think Melody told her to back off, but I am in charge of which lady I pay attention to so I wandered over to Bella and gave her a kissy and then she gave a little doggy smile that made Mummy laugh.

We have had some hot weather over the last few days. Mummy let me have a dunk in the lake – it was nowhere near the fishermen but they shouted at Mummy to “get that ***dog out of the water”. She ignored them as I was coming out anyway, and she kept making rude signs at them but it was ok because they couldn’t see her for the trees. I think, the mood she was in, she might have done it anyway…which isn’t good….

The Mother has replayed an old act, apparently. Twice before, she pretended to have major problems with her…erm…back end….and had all sorts of investigations before the doctors realised there was nothing wrong. This time, Auntie Judy rang My People to say The Mother was bleeding from her back end and might be dying etc and when they went to the doctor, the problem had magically gone away. Auntie gets very cross that The Mother keeps putting everyone through this over and over again, but Mummy just gets tired. The Mother is supposed to have kidney failure now and she is going to be given the drugs that she was told, before, that she couldn’t have because of her weak kidneys so Auntie Judy says she expects to hear that The Mother has collapsed….Mummy says she gives up, none of them know what they are doing and nobody listens to her. I am just glad that we are estranged from The Mother and I don’t have to see her and My People don’t have to get involved with all that any more…

Well, I hope that you are all well and I will try to write more regularly after today,

Regards,

Bruce xxx