Snow

CHARGE!
Well, ish anyway. I wanted to run about madly in the snow but I was attached to FP via a lead - I wish I was, like, wi-fi enabled in the street, but it is true you couldn't trust me with all the cats tempting me like they do.
Noticed an important difference in snow types: today's type was Wet Snow which didn't ball up in my paws & make me have to stop every few minutes to chew it out. Did you even know there was a type of snow that makes it hard for a dog to run about? Did you???

The power of ask

Asking questions is how we find out stuff and negotiate our way through the world. We all need to feel like we can ask stuff and, in turn, we should do what we can to make others feel that asking us stuff won't win them a swift and damning judgement of an unfavourable nature - asking questions doesn't mean someone is stupid or ignorant, it means they've recognised a need for information. 

I like to do my asking in different ways, depending on who I'm dealing with. For example, if a puppy runs up to me and goes all squirmy and rolling around on the ground under my nose, I ask it to stop confusing me with this submissive behaviour by Barking Loudly. It doesn't always work; recently a puppy jumped on my head and made it difficult to continue barking. 

Other times I ask for treats off humans by sitting in front of them, sucking in my cheeks to make it look like I am starved and waving a paw weakly. This works in most cases.

Quite often I ask all dogs and humans in the park to form up in neat lines and walk in the same direction to satisfy my Collie Need for Order. This NEVER works.

Misleading scents

As I understand it, humans haven't the same facility to sniff out stuff that's buried as dogs do. Too bad. Me, I can pick up a trail and follow it very efficiently thanks to my nose but FP the other day had to dig about on a website in all manner of confusing directions before she found what she was searching for.

The website in question is Too Big. Worse still there are a lot of Dead Ends on it and apparently Unfinished Projects, with no indication of when content might be added or up-dated. 

There are however plenty of e-mail addresses FP can write to in order to ask questions but she told me that if she wanted to spend the rest of her life in fruitless pursuits, she'd resume training me to run through weave poles or jump a hurdle.

I thought that was a bit mean actually, as I did learn to jump the hurdle in the end. I also had to dig the longest hole in dog history to bury that metre long hurdle pole and finally bring that training to an end. However, I can still find it because I can still smell it! It isn't a hyperlink into nothingness or (worse) a long list of Irrelevant Fora! I also check it regularly to ensure no fox has pinched it, so it isn't treated as a task with no finish either.

If you have a website, here's my advice:

1. Make sure you control it, don't let it control you
2. Make sure people finish what they start on it
3. Make sure you build it with the user in mind
4. Make sure you test it on people who aren't part of building it
5. Make sure you get rid of unused parts of it.

Okay, cheers byeee!

Dear FP

You put me in the bath, made me all soapy and lovely smelling but I have rolled in mud now and things are back to normal!

Pahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Love Nunu

ps: my tea is due in 5 minutes - don't be late

Don't give me a list!

I feel like the Internets is following me...

And you remember what I said about it being Firework Night - singular - not Fireworks As & When You Please (inc. very, very late at night, sometimes in the afternoon)? Yes? You do remember? Well, so quit with all the banging and fizzing screamers already!

I'm sick of it! I can't eat, I can't sleep, I can't really trust that I'm not going to tread on a sparkler spike in the park...It's ruining my life! *woe, general gibbering*

New toy

I am writing this from my newest toy. It has a touch screen, if you please! As one who struggles with a regular keyboard, I am finding this touch screen really quite a breath of fresh air! I have got the hang of switching between a numbers or a letters screen and I'm sure at some point I will grow used to finding the punctuation I require between the two screens as well. Probably get along quite well in time!
On a bit of a downer note, it is Bonfire Night. Note, please the singular 'night', not 'nights'. One night of fireworks is plenty, people.

I am listening to The Killers

Are We Human? they sing and I dance about barking because I am a dog, not a human, but it doesn't matter because FP's dancing too and she is human! Whooo, let's flick the lights on and off!

Not rock & rolling

Rolling in the park this morning = mud in fur = FP grooming me earlier than usual = all blissed out = gonna spend the afternoon listening to jazz.