Day 50 - Wow, where does time go?

Creative Clara seems to have been typing all day. She's only just finished her third part of her series for www.channillo.com - "The everyday stories of Baggy Body and her gang". She's gone back to the beginning as it were, when Lawrence was first discovered, so Clever Bird's brain is currently marginally frazzled. Not helped by the fact that she had a bright idea that she could type it in "Word" first then just upload it on to the site. No. For reasons that are too boring to explain she cannot do that at the moment, so she's had to type it twice. Yay. It's done. But then she remembered that she had let you bloggees down, so here we are.

Calum has been back at work for two days now, so Christmas seems an age ago. But Furry Mama is still determined to keep Minty Mutt's inner puppy woofing. As it is such a beautiful sunny day, she decided to take him on the same walk that we did yesterday, but add a bit. She noticed three other footpaths yesterday. It seemed like a plan to explore. "Don't forget the stile though" said Calum, when Baggy told him of Furry Mama's intentions. "No, that's fine. This new route misses it" said Clever Bird. Oh no it doesn't. The extra three paths are just past the stile!

 

There are two things to say about this (apart from the fact that Clever Bird is an idiot). Firstly the stile is half the height that Creative Clara described it as yesterday. It's probably a foot high. Secondly, the platform on top of it is much wider than she described. Probably about four inches wide. So today Minty Mutt was determined to prove to his Furry Mama that he really is a puppy. He gave it rather a long look. Considered his options. Hesitated.

 

 

 

"Go for it, Minty Mutt, you can do it!" encouraged Furry Mama. Bless him. He went for it. It wasn't elegant and it wasn't pretty, but the old lad got over it without Baggy hurting her arm having to lift him over.

 

 

 

By now Minty Mutt was on a mission. When we arrived at the extra three footpaths a little while later, Furry Mama chose the one that headed straight on towards the village Church. Amazingly though, Mint was trotting along so quickly that we were back home again in around the same forty-five minutes as the shorter route yesterday. Clever Bird reckons we'll have to try the other two paths and see where they go next. Baggy is very lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world........