More fun and a 'bad ear' day

Well I don’t think much of this weather – where has that thing called ‘the sun’ gone? It only seems to pop out every now and then, and instead we’ve had clouds and rain. Which has meant that I’ve spent a lot of time lying in bed, although I have given in at times and actually gone out in the rain. I’ve discovered that it’s a really good time to find slugs and snails and frogs. But the weather hasn’t stopped me from having fun this week.

Mum has been taking me over different parts of the Heath, so I’ve been able to have a good look around and run about. And sometimes I meet other dogs there that I can have a good play with. The best day for that was last Friday, when we’d almost finished our walk and met another staffie out with his Mum. He’s 15 months old and called Tyson and our Mum’s let us play for ages and ages. We had such a good game – I didn’t even notice when I scratched myself on the barbed wire fence – and he is such a nice dog. We got on really, really well together. He lives near us, so I’m hoping that I’ll meet him again.

Then on Saturday, after another good walk, we had visitors come to see us. I really liked them, especially the two boys, Marcus and George, who were with them. I spent a lot of time showing them how well I could sit and lie down and things. Mum wasn’t too happy when I jumped up to George and knocked him over though. But Saturday was a day when we had lots of sun, so we spent a lot of time in the garden…



Sometimes it just got a bit too much though, and I had to just have a bit of a lie down…



I was really sorry when they had to leave, but hopefully we’ll see them again sometime soon.

Yesterday morning I had what my Mum called, a bit of a ‘bad ear day’. I personally couldn’t see what was wrong, but Dad couldn’t stop laughing at me, which I thought was a bit cruel. After all, a dog can’t control what its ears do all the time – and I bet Dad can’t control his ears as well as I can. Just because they got a bit stuck in a flapped back position after I’d been lying on my back in the sun. I didn’t think it was particularly fair of Mum taking photos either…



Yesterday afternoon was a new ‘first’ for me: I went to my first music festival. Well, actually it was something called Poole Park Fest, where they have all sorts of stalls of people selling things and a big music stage with lots of live music. We went down towards the end of the afternoon but there were still loads and loads of people there, as you can see.



First of all we walked round the stalls, which was a bit boring until I found a white staffie to say hello to (Dad wouldn’t let me say hello to any of the other dogs we saw). But then I met a really nice staffie who I think was called Silas. Our game was a bit restricted as he was tied to a fence, but we did the best we could. I heard his Mum tell my Mum that he hardly ever gets to play with other dogs, which I think is a real shame. I felt really sorry for him. Still, I did my best to make up for it.

After that we went and sat in a big crowd of people while Mum & Dad had a drink and listened to the music.



Personally I found it all a bit boring, but I did get to meet lots and lots of people, who kept walking by me and saying hello and stroking me. This is me with two little girls I met.



After a while we moved forward, and I got to meet a whole new bunch of people, some of whom were really nice. After that it all got a bit embarrassing as Mum decided to dance to the music. When the music finished we came home again. Apparently we might go back down there today if its not too wet. If we do, I hope they take something to entertain me, like my chew. After all, there’s only so much sitting around doing nothing a little dog can take.

Last of all I’m going to leave you with a new photo of me that Mum took the other day.