Birthday Cake

This little one is 3 today.  Her big Sister iced the cake and decorated it with crushed crunchie and proudly carried it through all ablaze while we all sang happy birthday to Alice, seen here with the same Sister on her birthday in Nov. 

Earlier I took a short walk near the river with my neighbour, there's a flat footpath through the woods where we came upon a local dog walker and her friend who had several dogs between them, all unleashed,  2 or 3 of them ran towards us and jumped up onto my neighbour and another headed for me, I quickly turned my back as I couldn't have bared it jumping onto my chest area Im much too sore for that, It's front paws plonked into my back and it drooled all over my clean coat but other than that I was alright. It gave me a fright though and made me realise I was too fragile for that kind of encounter at the minute. I didn't have the energy to explain and was worried about a defensive manner no matter how nicely I would put my point of view across, so I just scurried past while they shrieked and yelled at the dogs who were taking not a blind bit of notice.
I was enjoying my walks but this has knocked my confidence especially if Im on my own. Bugger never thought about this happening.