Lottie and the Mexican

This is Martin who takes Lottie for a long run in the park a couple of times a week. He is Mexican and I really don't believe he understands very much of what we say to him. He smiles a lot and says "yes" in answer to everything.

I may be stereotyping a bit here but if I think about dog walkers I picture them in outdoor, sturdy, practical clothing..... not Martin. He has a different brightly coloured bandana on every time, wears leather trousers, lots of jewellery and smells divine. I don't like tattoos but Martin has some particularly spectacular works of art on him which we glimpse occasionally if it is a designer vest day of the week.

Lottie adores him and does a great Tom and Jerry style slippy run, getting nowhere on the wood floor as she charges through the house to greet him. Makes me laugh every single time.

Ideally I wanted to blip Lottie and Martin with Mowgli, who is a little pug dog that goes out with them too but I was too late today... drat!

Summer is back again today and so are all the dingbats on the telephone at work.