Forty Five

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‘George come on’.
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‘Look it isn’t restful when you’re walking like this’.
Just teasing Pips. You know me. I like to amuse myself. Quick quick quick quick quick ………….Stop! Wait. Wait Pips!
‘What now?’
I would just like to take a moment to smell autumn in the air and sniff the first dead leaves of the season which are always special…..
‘We haven’t got all day George’.
I very much like this time of year. It makes me feel poetic Pips. In fact I feel a poem coming on……./
‘Look George, there’s that Westie we met last week’.
It’s Freddie……..Freddie!
‘Hi George. How are you?’
I’m fine. How are you?
‘You’re on the lead again I see’.
She won’t let me off it Freddie.
‘Have you tried the ‘quick slow quick quick slow’ routine?’
I’ve just been doing it.
‘Good. Keep it up. It drives them all mad sooner or later. That’s what I did with Terry and Will’.
‘Freddie there you are. Don’t wander off. Oh I see. You’ve made a friend…’
‘Terry this is George from last week’.
Hello again Terry. And you must be Will.
‘Hello. Oh hi again!’
‘I’m sorry but my dog seems to like yours. Only dog he does like’.
‘Oh Freddie picks up all and sundry, don’t you Freddie? I’m Terry by the way and this is Will’.
‘Hi. I’m Philippa’.
‘Hi’.
‘You must live around here’.
‘Yes, around the corner. You?’
‘Just across the street. We moved in …ooh it must be almost two weeks ago already. How long have you lived here?’
‘A couple of years…… but I only got George about a year ago so…’.
‘I like Jack Russell’s. I almost got one but then I found Freddie and that was it….’


Freddie was saying that Terry and Will went to see ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ the other night at the cinema and that apparently we are all doomed. I would very much like to see it too Pips. We could make an evening of it like Terry and Will did. Apparently they had a meal at Wagamama’s first. Terry says it is everybody’s duty to see the film although they didn’t take Freddie along which I do not agree with as it is selfish to think that this issue only affects humans. We are all affected by global warming and the consequences of it and there are some positive steps we can all take to help/
‘I wonder if you do things on purpose George just to sabotage me’.
What do you mean Pips?
‘When I got you I hoped that you might be the catalyst for my meeting some lovely single men. Dogs are supposed to be a good way of meeting people. I read that Davina McCall met her future husband on Hampstead Heath when they were each walking their dogs and the dogs became friendly with each other and that was how their relationship started. There are plenty of other dogs in this neighbourhood you could decide to become friends with but no. You appear to be a loner and have nothing to do with most of them but when you do eventually decide to make a friend his owner is very lovely but HE IS GAY!
Keep your hair on Pips.
‘Sometimes I think the world is conspiring against me including you George’.
There’s no need to be so overdramatic. It is not the end of the world Pips – unlike global warming if I might say so. So when can we see Al Gore? Freddie says he’s on at the Vue.