Today has has some ups and downs. The up was that I caught a rabbit in the garden which finally puts paid to Daddy's assertion that I am "totally bloody useless". I am going to make him eat his own words and have stashed the rabbit somewhere safe so that I can produce it at an appropriate moment. Another up was the creme caramel that I had at lunchtime although Mummie didn't seem too impressed. She said that it was not good for my figure and that she had been saving it for Grandma (although I suspect that she wasn't thinking of feeding it to Grandma). In fact even though I had not sought her permission before I had helped myself to the creme caramel, there was no attempt at verbal abuse when she discovered what I had been up to. This is strange and unsettling (not to mention unheard of).

The down was that I have been gated for making off whilst she moved Declan in to the back field. Declan has managed to rip his new rug already. Mummie called him a total b******d and dragged him into the other field where she found that some of the fence posts were so rotten that they had fallen over. Oh dear! I think that I remember something similar to this at our last house. Daddy had better watch out especially when Declan gets out because Mummie can sometimes be tricky about things like that. She isn't that patient at times.

I was found wandering by one of the men working in the church next door and was dragged back to the house on a piece of baler twine. He was a very nice man and gave me a bit of his sandwich whilst we were waiting for Mummie to come back. The other workman managed to grab Mummies attention when she went past in the Land Rover (this was apparently her attempt at a search party). The nice workman looked astonished when Mummie gave him her opinion on my behaviour. His jovial chat dried up a bit after that but I suppose he could just have been a bit awestruck. She fails to realise that I am a free spirit. I should not be constrained and she says that I am to be made to work in lieu of the money she has spent on diesel on a wild goose chase trying to find me and that if I get squashed next time I shall only have myself to blame. Charming. Hope she's got it out of her system now. I'm going back to the Aga,

This is a picture of me in my sun room. I have a view of the entire garden, woods and paddocks from here which is essential for spotting rabbits, pheasants and other trespassers.