I’m still trying to find shape and texture photos so I can continue my B&W theme a bit longer. These dog biscuits sort of jumped out at me because once again my day has been fraught and stressful.

The term ‘it’s a dog’s life’ is such a wrong statement when it comes to our two pooches, Rosie and Archie. Today I wish I was one of them, past times notwithstanding. I would have been prepared to suffer whatever tortures Archie went through before I found him languishing in Battersea Dogs Home so I could have relished his day today! Both he and Rosie are Battersea babes and that place is the most wonderful institution. Archie was only languishing because kennels spooked him so much. Rosie, on the other hand, probably can’t even remember the place, having only spent a few hours there because I took her home on the same day she arrived. Poor old Arch was there a long time, partly because he didn’t show his best side while he was there and partly just because of the reputation of Border Collies as creatures of mass destruction!

While I set off at the crack of sparrows to my office and a million, zillion problems (or I should say ‘opportunities’), faced the wolves all day with no lunch break and a late stay to try to finish something off before leaving (and failing), R&A have been ambling around here. I’ve staggered from meeting to meeting, promised to do a whole load of stuff I know I can only do by forgoing more of my home life and spent much of the day on the phone begging people.

Meanwhile at home, the dogs have been in the loving care of David. They’ve snoozed on the top of the stairs, the bed and the sofa. They’ve been fed and watered. They’ve had a charge around to release some energy. They’ve rolled in the grass (don’t tell DM). Rosie has had a little bit of peanut butter on toast and the two of them have had love, care and attention lavished on them all day.

Now I want to know…..where’s my share? When can I roll on my back and get my tummy tickled? When will someone else feed me? When will I get to snooze in the middle of the day with ne’er a care in the world? When can I have a biscuit?

…….perhaps if I smile nicely at DM……..