Good day Bloggets. Well my Son text to let me know he was
there OK yesterday, and this morning early text to say he is awake and fine! He
said that the walk was really difficult uphill with his four heavy bags, but he
did it, put his tent up he is sharing with another and he sounded in good
spirit. So first 24 hours done.
The second bag of dog food came early this morning so I was
free to go. Put Waggs in the dog run to do her business now then that is a
funny one. We have a section at the bottom of the garden fenced and gated off
with drainage so the dogs can pollute in there. When we let the dogs out, they
go straight there and stand waiting until I catch up to open the gate. How
clever are they? They are dogs at the end of the day and could just do it
anywhere. No, they go to the toilet block like a human.
Talking of toilets, when I went to town the other day with
our daughter, she wanted the loo. Guess how much she had to pay for it? 40p. and
they were not even clean. There is an English saying which goes like this,
spend a penny. Well, I’m not old and when I was younger it was a penny to go to
the toilet. Now forty? And she said they were not clean. Awful.
So, everything ready, harness, leash, treats for Waggs
Dog bag just in case,
and my card and some cash will tell you why in a mo. Jo.
Locked all of the windows doors and on our way, would
Waggatail be a good girl today? Always apprehensive when I go out, as she isn’t
consecutive and neither am I. She started
off badly as wanted to cross the road at the top of our drive. This way means
she is going on the field. So always have to be aware. I corrected her and she
pulled towards the field but luckily I was on her case and kept her in the side
I wanted. Down the first step she did that fine but then again chanced her luck
by trying to pull me towards the other side of the road so we would find
ourselves on the field, no, it wasn’t happening. Past the overhanging tree and
around the corner we went towards the dreaded road which is like a motorway.
Hub is fighting to get the traffic speed lowered or at least
monitored on that road. It’s lethal.
Thankfully the council seems to have cut back most of the overhanging
thorns on that pathway; anyway, we got to where we needed to be. Posted the
letter, after crossing only three roads and loads of long paths then went to
the chemist and that is where I felt so pleased, why? For all of you Bloggets
reading this in the UK, please ask your local Guide Dog association about the
badge boxes for Guide Dog week? I like this idea as we are not asking shops to
commit, we are just asking for one box to be placed on the counter in the
shops. Public kindly pay £1 and receive a cute badge of a dog paw. This is a
fantastic way you can help us please? By helping Guide Dogs UK, you are helping
yourself by providing a service that may help you in the future, remember in
the UK alone, one hundred people go blind per day. I asked the lady in the
chemist if she would be so obliged to place one of these non-obtrusive boxes on
her counter and she said she would. Fantastic. Each box has forty badges so £40
raised would really really help. If you can ask your local shop, chemist,
garage, pub, restaurant how much we could raise and that would be all down to you.
So out of there and into my lovely Louis restaurant. A quick
take away only £3 this is why I needed cash, as under £5, you have to use cash,
rather than a card. Then on my way home.
Waggs was doing so well, bless her we were almost home then
“Ouch.
My ankle bent as I misplaced the step as Wagga bless her
tried to avoided the stupid over hanging tree from someone’s garden taking me
too far to the right and off the kerb. Well I was shocked. I hate it when I
think I am going fully on the ground.
I became disoriented and really didn’t know where I was. So
I stopped and retraced my steps. As I went past the tree, I got a hold of it,
it wasn’t a prickly one, and I told Waggs to watch for it, it was mainly to let
the people if they were in, and watching, that I was holding a branch from
their tree, so hopefully they would come and cut. But I am sure they would be
at work.
Well, I still hands shaking, heart pounding, the traffic
sounded like it was all around me. I was dizzy. I wanted to walk forward, I
told Waggs forward correcting her as she was pulling to the left. Then I
remembered what my friend JB told me at the weekend. “Trust your dog!” I simply
said find home. And you know she did. Even though I was sure we were on the
next street, and if you are blind and the next street or door is a mile away.
She got me to the front door and I was so in love with her.
As for at least four minutes, which seemed like half an hour to me, I was sure
we were so very lost. When I heard my
wind chimes I was delighted.
Ate my dinner after feeding Waggs as that is one fine way I
can be assured I get home, I tell her to find home and she will get her dinner.
She is a Labrador.
I washed my hands and enjoyed lunch very happy with myself.
More so with Waggatail. But now exhausted. I have to talk to Wagga all the way
there and back, trying to remember where we were, and where we need to go, but
because of my sweet little girl, I was able to go to the post box, then pick up
some pain killers for Hub at the chemist as well as getting a yes for a box for
Guide Dogs, get my lunch and give Wagga some work to do but as equally important,
I went out from my four walls and I feel so much better for it.
Off to groom Waggatail now and then the delights of cleaning
the dog run. Oh I may let my lunch settle first. Hehehe. Later gators. X
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