I don't care if I looks mad so long as I is comfy. By Bessie

Yesterday was the first day of the minihumans summer holidays and the day after Katie's birthday so Mummy said she could choose what they do.  So she said she wanted to go into Cardiff to spend her birthday money.  Mummy say first she has to go down the village to put the cheque Katie got off Aunty Jackie and Uncle Sid in the bank.   Me did try and tell Mummy there is no need for her to do that cos she can go to the bank in town but as usual she don't take no notice off me.   Anyway Mummy says her has a few jobs to do round the house first, then she take us for a walk down the village and then they can go into town.

First she wants to strip Moss's tank down and move him in with his cousins Jedediah, Rod and Freddy.   Moss is Tom's pleccypotomus, him has outgrown his tank and cos him too big for it the filter can't keep up with the amount of poops he does.  The tank stinks bad all the time.  So Mummy say even though in theory you shouldn't really keep 2 plecs in the same tank she think it be alright cos they is both about the same size, they is different types of plec and if she puts enough wood in there then they can make themselves a bedroom each.  So she puts Moss in with Jed and then she puts Moss's tank in the garden to sort out later (well it the next day now and she still not got round to doing it).    Even though Moss brought all his own bits of wood he still wants to sit on Jed's.  Jed looks cross but him not say nothing, he just goes and sits on Moss's wood.

Then Mummy put some washing in the machine and do some hoovering and then we all puts our collars and leads on and we is just on our way out the door when there is a huge clap of thunder and the sky goes black.  Mummy says we wait a minute to see if it rains.  Well, within 10 minutes it raining so hard it looks like there is a river running down our street.  So we say we will go for a walk later and we tells the humans to go and do their shopping.

When they gets to Cardiff it has stopped raining and it is sunny so them goes on the park and ride into town and poor Tom and Bryn ends up sat behind this woman who has decided to tell the elderly couple on the other side of the aisle her complete life story.  Including some far fetched story involving her pet dash-hound.  Quite frankly I do not believe that anybody would have a dog that they didn't even know the correct name of.  I think her just made that bit up.

Mummy spent the whole journey texting Tom telling him how she was lonely and she wanted to tell a stranger all her secret thoughts but Tom was ignoring her.   He say afterwards his battery was dead but we know he was ignoring her because him not want the lady to know they was talking about her.

When them gets to town Mummy finally remembers that she can go to the bank here so she does but it one of them stoopid banks with no staff, just thousands of machines.  So Mummy finds the machine for paying in cheques and then she fights with the machine for a bit.  And then after the machine spits the cheque out for the third time (First time she put it in upside down, second time she put the paying in slip upside down, third time she didn't put her card in fast enough) then she screams at the top of her voice (which is a very loud place) "ALL I WANT IS A HUMAN TO SIT BEHIND A DESK AND DO THEIR JOB.  IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?"   At which point Tom puts the cheque in the machine for her and gently steeres her out of the robot bank.

Katie wanted to buy these partiklar shoes but only Treds stock them and they didn't have the size or colour she wanted (that's cos Treds is rubbish and them never have nothing you want).  Then Mummy looked on Mr Google for stockists of these shoes in Cardiff and it gave the name and address of this shop down by the stadium, so they walks all the way down there to number 8 like it said.   Number 7 is a comic shop, number 9 is a camping shop.  Number 8 is boarded up.   Katie say never mind them probably wouldn't have had what she wanted anyway, she say she will get them off the internet instead.  So they have some lunch in Burger King and then they looks in some other shops and then Katie buys some socks and they all gets a drink and some sweeties from Poundland and then they come home.

This time last year I went to Jefferson's house for tea.   Me just remembered that.   That was a good day, I wasn't supposed to be going cos Mummy was delivering Missy and Bertie to Mr John but then right at the last minute she said I could go so I surprised Jefferson with my lovely self.

Mummy says she wants to get me a buggy cos me struggles walking sometimes and she say it be a nuisance for the others cos they wants to go on a nice walk and I is doing flat basset.  Miss Deborah showed Mummy a nice buggy and Mummy found one just like it on Amazon.  But then Tom (and I thought him loved me lots) he said no way was Mummy getting one and he would be too ashamed to push it and Mummy would look crazy.  Mummy ask Tom if he knows her at all.  She ask him since when did she care what people think?   She go out of her way to look like a crazy and she will get me this buggy whether he likes it or not.   Anyway while we was out on our walk this afternoon I does my flat basset thing at the edge of the castle and Tom say this is the point when Bessie has had enough.   Mummy say that why she getting a buggy and Tom sighs and says no again.  Mummy ask him maybe if she waits til we move house and him say that's even worse cos he hardly cares what people round here thinks but he don't want the new neighbours to think we is mad.  Mummy say it alright, people will just think she has a very big hairy baby.   Tom not think that much better than a dog in a pram.