blah blah blah, shut up Mummy. Nobody cares. By Bessie

On Sunday we went to a big country park in Swindon to meet our friends.   There were 26 bassets and a beagle.   It was raining and it even hailed some of the time but we had a good time anyway.  Lotty stole a crust of bread off a small child.  She says she had to do it because the child was feeding the swans.  Lotty went to say hello to the swans and one of them tried to bite her on the nose so she had to steal his lunch.  The small child's Daddy was cross and gave our Daddy a very dirty look even though the child was not hurt and Daddy did say he was very sorry.

We stopped for lunch and everybody went back to their cars to eat cos it was still raining but when we met back at the start point after lunch there were only 9 dogs on the walk.  We had a good run and our bellies got so mucky that Mr Guy walked us through a river to clean off.   Miss Louise and Mr Dave couldn't make this walk cos Miss Louis had her mummy visiting but Miss Sam and Mr Ryan came and Mr Wayne so we got to see some of our bestest friends.  Lotty and Shirley are bestest friends, I think they like to get up to all kinds of mischief together.

On Monday Tom and Mummy went to pets at home to pick up Carly's antibionics for her bad toofy.  There was some people in there booking their dog in to get his nails done cos he'd tried to eat the groomer next door, not our friend Kate, the blonde lady who has never done our feeties.   Anyway the people was telling the receptionist all about how they had sold the dog (un-castrated dog I adds) but the person who bought him hadn't changed the number on the microchip and the dog had been found and returned to them.   The receptionist asked if they didn't try and phone the people who bought the dog to see if they were looking for him.  The man shrugged and said he didn't know who he had sold him to.   Mummy turned to Tom and whispered, "And it's people like us left to pick up the pieces afterwards."

Mummy was a bit annoyed though that she had been stood at the desk for ten whole minutes waiting for someone to come out and see her (she had even sent Tom off to buy some stuff in the shop while she was waiting and he had been and come back before the receptionist came out).  Then she comes out and Mummy and Tom are standing at the desk and the family with the dog are sitting down.  But she opens the door, walks out, completely ignores Mummy and Tom and says "Oh hello, what can I do for you?" to the other people.  Luckily the man said Mummy was next or she would have hit the roof.

Anyway they got the tablets and they went to Asda to buy Katie and Tom some new school shirts cos theirs have all gone grey cos Mummy keeps washing them with the blazers.  They were walking past Marks and Spencer and Mummy is telling Tom some inane story about how she got a weird anonymous text and she was trying to work out who it was from.  Tom kept saying it didn't matter, just delete it but Mummy was going, "Yeah but wouldn't you be even slightly intrigued?"  Tom just said no he would delete it and move on.  Then Mummy said, "Did you hear back about that job yet?  You did apply didn't you?"  And he said, "Yes Poirot, I had a text while you were going on and on about your text.  You didn't even notice I wasn't listening."   "Oh." Said Mummy.  Then she shut up...for a minute.  It was a nice minute though, according to Tom.  Nice and peaceful, could have been longer.  So Tom had a phone interview which he passed and now he has to go to Doncaster for an assessment weekend.