Making the most of it.......................

Another day when there were oodles and oodles of sunshine. My human definitely feels much happier when the sun shines. She's just realised that (apart from an hour's Zumba), she has actually been outside today from 6.45am until 7.00pm. No wonder she's looking like a wrinkly old prune!!


Early morning walk along the lane and amazingly, even though it was before 7am we met a lady with two horses, a man that we know, (with a very cute Spaniel); a couple who we most definitely did not know, who were walking along the lane drinking from a can of lager. Very unusual for St Ives?! It was like walking past Cafe Nero, in Edinburgh first thing in the morning, where all the homeless people sit drinking their cans of strong cider/lager first thing in the morning.


Breakfast on our very sunny sun terrace (& then Ann went to Zumba & I had snooze time) and late morning after chillaxing on her rocking sun lounger and taking me into the field to play with my ball my human popped down to the 'St Ives Food Drink Festival'on Porthminster Beach with her friend Angela. I had to have more 'home alone' snooze time.


Mini RANT coming up, so switch off now if you're not interested.............


Years ago, doggies weren't allowed to go to the 'Food & Drink' Festival. OK, it's on the beach and us doggies love the beach. But, why would humans want to take us to a place that is mega, mega busy? I am so glad that Ann left me 'home alone' so that I could have snooze time.


When she came home she told me all about the awful conditions that some of the doggies were having to endure. It was really hot and a lot of people were just sitting in the sunshine, on the beach, with their pooches in direct sunlight. The humans were stuffing their faces with food and drink with no thought to how their furry friends were feeling...................


….................And even the people who were traipsing their dogs around with them; weren't much better. Ann felt like she was tripping over dogs wherever she went. Walking around very crowded places and just seeing rows and rows and rows of people's legs is not very much fun for us............. My human would never subject me to that type of trauma!


Don't get me wrong........................ My human loves to take me out and about with her. I go to all sorts of places with her. But only if she thinks it's places that I would like. A very, very, busy 'Food & Drink Festival' on a very, very, hot day is NOT somewhere that most pooches would enjoy. Grrrrrrr................


Why don't all these people who think, 'my dog is on holiday with me so they're' having fun',................. just view the holiday from the dogs point of view? It is not fun for us to walk around busy places, bumping into people's legs all the time. Most of us would prefer to have ''home alone snooze time and then go for a proper walk when our humans come home.


OK, RANT over!!!


Moving swifty on.................... my 'proper walk' this afternoon was through the fields. I had loads of 'run about' time and was all happy and bouncy.


….............And then we had to sit on the sun terrace for the next three hours..................... Well, my human has to make the most of the sun doesn't she?


Mr Sunshine has disappeared now so we've come indoors. And it looks like we're going to have to watch the 'Eurovision Song Contest' on TV.


Mmmmmm.................... what is it with 'Eurovision' this year?.................. It's crazy................. It's been in the news for days...............


Eurovision nostalgia for my human................


1967 - Sandi Shaw – won 'Eurovision Song Contest', with 'Puppet on a String'. It was on TV at 9pm and that was considered too late for an 8 year old to stay up to watch it. And actually it mustn't have lasted later than 10.30pm because at 10.30pm the TV closed down and 'God Save the Queen' was played at the end of the evening.


Fast forward to 1972 and my human was living in Edinburgh, and was 13 years old, and in love with Marty Kristian from the New Seekers. She was one of the hundreds of fans who stood outside the Caledonian Hotel (where they were staying). The Eurovision Song Contest was held in the Usher Hall in Edinburgh in 1972. In retrospect, how her mother actually allowed her to hang about outside the Caley Hotel, at such a young age is a mystery, because Ann had a very sheltered upbringing? But she did.
…...........Until she told her mother (the day before Eurovision) she was going back at10.30pm in the evening, to hang around outside the Caley, because the rumour was......... the New Seekers would be arriving back at the Caledonian Hotel then.
Ann sat on the kitchen stool. Not quite sure why there was a stool in Ann's kitchen, because no one had breakfast bars in those days and she cried and cried and cried................ because she wasn't allowed to go back into town (at 13 years of age) and hang around until 10.30pm to see if the New Seekers actually arrived back.



Ann's mother said she was 'hysterical' and did she really think that Marty Kristian was going to marry her?!  Well, yes.......... Obv at 13 years of age she did!!


More than 50 years later................  Obv Ann didn't marry Marty Kristian.


#happydays


My human is making me watch Eurovision. #hopewewin