Look what I've got....................
Guess what happened last night?...................... 'Mr Amazon' arrived with a parcel for me and just look what was inside......................... My life jacket. Yay!
As those of you who follow our Blips regularly will know..................... my human does a lot of sea swimming and I always go with her. Unfortunately, I'm a bit scaredy of those things called waves. When Ann goes swimming, I either lie and guard her stuff or I just sit at the waters edge and watch her. Everyone comments on what a good little Collie I am...................
….................Except Ann!!! ..................She wants me to go swimming with her. She also wants me to go on a paddleboard with her. She doesn't seem to realise that she's an OAP?!!! She wants to be a 'cool, dude, surfer chick, on a paddleboard with a dog'.
Not sure if the paddleboard thing will happen because the beaches where one can hire paddleboards have banned doggies for the summer. However, after speaking to a man on holiday here (who takes his two dogs swimming in Loch Morlich in Scotland, & said their confidence had really increased when he bought them life jackets), Ann decided to buy me a lifejacket.
She's hoping to go swimming before work tomorrow and what she's going to do is............ she will dress me in my lifejacket before she goes into the sea for a swim, I will do my usual guarding her stuff/sitting at the edge of the water thing, and then, when she's done enough swimming, she's going to pick me up and carry me over the waves and then plonk me in the sea.
Mmmmmm................... the last time she did that, I immediately swam for shore. Apparently this time it's going to be different................. My life jacket has a little handle thing on the back, so Ann is going to keep hold of me and we are going to swim together. ….........And hopefully the buoyancy of my life jacket will keep me afloat, even if I don't want to swim.
TBH, I LOVE swimming, but not in the sea only in streams, rivers & lakes.
Watch this space............................ Guess what tomorrow's BLIP will be??!!!
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