In which Bessie goes to a sleepover. By Bessie

On Monday Mummy was off work so she did loads of baking.  She made sugar cookies and peanut butter cookies.  On Tuesday Mr Gary and Mr Steve went to see Jackson at Miss Lesley's.  Miss Lesley's daughter, Emma is a groomer so she give him a baff and did his toebones first so him was all lovely and fluffy.  Of course Mr Gary and Mr Steve and Sally the corgi loved him so they adopted him.  Mummy and Carly went to meet them at McDonalds to give them his papers and they had a little cuddle with Jackson and Sally.  Mummy said Sally was beautiful.

On Wednesday Mummy went to work so we stayed home with Tom.  On Thursday Mummy and Tom went out and did some Christmas shopping.  They was ever so pleased with themselves and said they had a good days shopping and got loads of presents.

Mummy was doing overtime on Friday but the new settee and armchair was being delivered but they said it could be anytime between 7am and 7pm. but they would phone an hour before.  So she say she will come home when they phone and then go back to work if she has to.   But we was first on the run cos we is so close to the shop so they phoned at ten past seven so lucky they come before she went to work.   Daddy took Katie and Bryn to school and Mummy waited for the delivery.  

When the delivery men come one got out the truck to see where they would bring the settee and chair in so Mummy took him round the back to show him the patio doors.  Him said it was a nice place we got and Mummy says thank you but don't look at the carpet.   Then he went back to the lorry and both men brought the settee in.  The second man says it a nice place too and the first man laughed and said "She only bought it for the carpet."  

"you should have seen the matching lampshades," said Mummy.  Then the second man looked up at our dead nice lampshade and goes "Ugh yeah."

"Not that one!" screamed Mummy, "That's mine!"   The man blushed and the other man laughed and said he always puts his foot in it.    Then they took the covers off and asked Mummy to check it while they went to get the chair.  So she lay down on the settee before we could - we was locked in Tom's room so we didn't eat the delivery men.   Then the phone rang so Mummy asked Tom to sign for the chairs while she answered it.   By the time she come back the delivery men had gone, Tom and me was lay in the armchair and Lotty and Carly was lay on the settee.  Mummy shouted at us and made us get off.  Then she shut the door and went to work and we had to sit in Tom's room all day.  Not that we mind, we like Tom's room.

Yesterday me and Mummy went on an adventure.  We got in the car and we packed a sleeping bag and pillow for Mummy and a blankie for me and we drove to Miss Sam's house.   When we got there we took all our stuff out of our car, well not all our stuff - we left the sunglasses and the crisp packets and that smelly sock that's been under the passenger seat for the last year - and we put it all in Miss Sam's bus.  We went inside her house and I had a run about in the garden with Shirley and Ollie while Mummy had a cup of tea.   Then we got in Miss Sam's bus with Miss Sam and we drove to Miss Louise's house.  

When we got there I had a wee on her next door neighbours lawn and then we went in and cuddled with Penny, Frank and Bertie.   Mr Dave was at work and the minihumans was upstairs in their bedrooms.   So the humans had cups of tea and we houndies ate all the hobnobs.   Then the humans went in the kitchen and pretended to have a meeting.  So me and Penny lay on the settee and had a cuddle and the boys sat on the rug.   But then after it gone dark a burglar came in through the back door so I shouted at him, lots.   But the ladies wasn't happy with my shouting.  And the burglar wasn't happy with my shouting so he went upstairs and when he come back he was wearing jammies and it was Mr Dave and then I remembered he lives here so I said he could stay.   Then the minihumans, Annie and Sam come downstairs and I said they could stay.  But Ginger the cat wasn't allowed to stay.  So I chased him under the dining table and he scratched me on the nose.  Nobody cared.  Nobody kissed me better, they said it served me right.  I think they are very mean.

Us houndies had our dinner and then the humans had fajitas for their dinner and then they drinked lots of drinks what made them laugh lots at things that wasn't funny. After tea Mr Dave and Sam went upstairs and Annie was on her puter in the lounge and the lady humans wrapped all the presents up for the Christmas Party next week.  So we watched and catched any bits of the presents (what I not going to tell you what they is cos then it won't be a surprise) what fell on the floor.  Oh and they wanted to talk to Uncle MrJeff about the website so them did some sort of videocall or something so them could all talk at the same time - over each other I do think but it not my place to say - anyway I videocalled with George and Winston and it was really cool!

When them finished talking to Uncle MrJeff about the website and them finished wrapping the presents then them sat in the lounge and watched some films and us houndies all got to snuggle with a human.    And then one minute we were watching Miracle on 34th Street and the next minute it was morning and Mr Dave was getting up to go to work.  So we all run out to shout HELLO at him very loudly cos that's what you do to be polite.   Mummy was lay on her only working ear though so she didn't hear me shouting HELLO and couldn't shout at me.

After Mr Dave went to work we all come back to bed, Bertie got in with Mummy, and went back to sleep for a few hours and by the time we woke up again it was light and time for bacon butties and then we had to go.  I was sad to go cos I really loves spending time with my friends, especially Penny I loves her lots.  But Mummy say it OK cos me see them all again in a week.  So we says goodbye and then we gets back in Miss Sam's bus and drives back to Miss Sam's house, has a wee, has a cup of tea, gets back in our own car.   We stops at the services for a KFC and a wee and then we goes home.

When we got to Bristol we was stuck for ages in a traffic jam cos some wide load was taking up the whole motorway and going very very slow.  Lucky for us it was turning off to go down the M5 and not carrying on into Wales so we was only held up for about half an hour.  We was waiting ages at the bridge too cos they lets people pay by card at the coin bin.  This is stupid cos you saves up the right money to save time not so you can wait for ages while people put their blummin pin numbers in.

When we got home Carly was very happy to see Mummy, I think she missed her lots.  Nobody else was, they all hates her haha.  Then we had tea and snoozed on the new furniture.