Boxing Day in the park

[blamebrampton]

In a Boxing Day tradition, we slept in, then watched a video. Instead of the traditional Lord of the Rings, we watched a doco I had recorded called The Truth About Exercise, which was all about the profoundly positive impact exercise has on your body.

After it, Mr B (as I had predicted) said 'We should go for a bike ride!' Which was a terrific idea, because my spin class wasn't on and my legs were all twitchy. I took the Lady Bike out, which was her first outing in months, and because she is a beautiful giant beast of a thing, especially compared to my normal nimble mountain bike, I spent most of the ride a little way behind Mr B.

Which meant I was in the perfect position to see the funniest moment of the week. We rode up towards the playground in Sydney Park, and there was a group of people off to one side with their dogs playing. One of them was a small fluffy tan puppy, who was running at a great rate of knots downhill towards the path, down which Mr B was riding.

I was about to ring my bell and shout, when they saw each other and both hit the brakes. On Mr B's part, this was a boring action.

On the puppy's part, this consisted of sitting back onto its bottom and sliding down the slope, frantically backpedalling with its front paws in the time-honoured manner of a cartoon puppy or kitten.

Both stopped in good order and disaster was avoided, and the puppy was showered with love and approval. Also, I did not fall of my bike laughing, which was a near thing!

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[ant-queen.livejournal.com]

Heh, the puppy image made me giggle :) Since we moved recently, we're now near a great off leash park that has a good group of regular dogs (and owners) that all play well together. Currently there is a 16 week old Hungarian vizsla puppy that is providing loads of entertainment with its antics. It's at that age when it is still all elbows and ears. Cracks me up every time. Especially when it's trying to play with the much older and much bigger Alaskan malamute, whose tactic when it gets annoyed with the pup is to sit on it :) Puppies should be a PBS listed therapy.