In your face

Ricky, the dog, exhibited a new behaviour today. He is Tom’s dog and throws himself across him in the evening but ignores everyone else. Today, Tom was at work and Ricky decided I would be an acceptable substitute. He has never done this with any of the female members of the family and never before with me. He crawled all over me, went back to his favourite place on the sofa but then did the same thing 15 minutes later, presumedly just to reassure me that I am still loved! He’s a very affectionate dog, but quite mad! In the morning, I went to town to deposit wills at the solicitors and buy some Lincolnshire plum bread as a gift for our friend tomorrow. We were not able to go for lunch to our other friends C. and C. as they phoned this morning to say that the roads were impassable due to flooding and that the local school was shut so they were on child minding duties. I took the dogs out for a walk but did not linger as it was bitterly cold.