One foot on the floor

 

 

Way back in the early days of Hollywood movies, there were rules about what could and what could not be seen, or said or done. One of them was that in any bedroom scene (single beds of course!) one partner had to keep one foot on the floor at all times.

Now why do I know about this? Well, take a look at the pictures of me and you'll perhaps see why.

There I was, all nicely settled on the very chair I like best but I'm not supposed to get up on, and I was definitely being on my best behaviour, when the human who feeds me noticed me there and started laughing. To be honest I was a bit startled because I thought I was going to get a right telling off, but no, she got her camera and took some photos of me and then told me to get off the chair. Hmmmm....what was all that about?

Then I heard her telling the other human who does "school" with me (and gives me treats for shaking paws and jumping over a hurdle which is really a walking stick). She was saying things like "It's what they had to do in bedroom scenes in old films - always keep one foot on the floor" and they both seemed to think that the way I was sitting was funny.

Acutally, and in my humble opinion, I think I looked pretty good and rather elegant.

 

Three bridges, no river!

3 bridges, no river, just roads

It's true to say that when my humans take me out in my campervan, we're  likely to go somewhere that's interesting. 

 

Very often it's more interesting for them, but sometimes it's just as interesting for me too, especially when there are beaches, good places to sniff and good walks involved, preferrably with a few other dogs to meet along the way to say hello to.

We went away to Norfolk last month in my campervan (more on that to come when I get my paws on the keyboard again) but on the way we stopped at a place called Crowland (and sometimes called Croyland - don't ask me why!) in Lincolnshire.

Well, there was a rather nice ruined Abbey there which they wanted to see (not too boring because there were trees and it was sniffy). Then we went into the town and found something really strange - three bridges all joined together but no river nearby. So all we could do was walk up the steps to where the bridges joined together, and then back down again. Weird. 

 

There had a been a river there or something, but it got moved. Even weirder! Anyway, the bits around the Abbey were better as there were trees, grass to walk on and it was a whole lot less peculiar than the bridges (although one of humans really liked those bridges).

The Abbey was more my kind of place!

 * The River Welland and one of its tributaries used to flow beneath what is known as Trinity Bridge. The river was moved and re-routed in the 17th century and the bridges were left in place. More info here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why I moved from WordPress to Blogger

There's been rather a lot of muttering lately from the human who feeds me and writes my blog for me, and the other human who does "School" with me. They both use WordPress for their blogs, and mine too, and it's recently changed.

Changed in a big way too - instead of being easy and straightforward to use, it's become a lot more difficult, clonky, techie and confusing, and it takes my human who writes this for me a whole lot longer to get a blog post together because she now has to use what's called the Block Editor ( all fancy tech stuff with buttons and bits to click on to get anywhere with it.)

Frankly, she's fed up with it, so she's creating a new blog for me with Blogger because it's easier to use and doesn't have all the fancy techie stuff that this Block Editor (Idiot more like) thing has.

With Blogger she can just write down what I'm telepathically transmitting to her without pushing any extra buttons, or fiddling around getting something like the good old Classic Editor they've discontinued and ditched in favour of this new Blockhead thing. Oh she can get at the Classic one, but it's not like it used to be and yes - there are buttons and links and fiddy bits all of which drive her doolally.

So watch this space because we'll be moving over to my new blog soon and waving goodbye to WordPress, although I'll leave my pearls of wisdom and thoughts on this blog for the time being so you can read some of the things I've been up to.