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I also just wanted to say thanks for joining me on my journey. I do notice the regular people who log on to read and even though, at the moment you are, just city names and IP addresses I really do appreciate it.

I myself am having a perfectly chilled Christmas day with Nino!

Just look at that face!!!

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Nino is a gorgeous

Italian greyhound

Who runs around the house

Never making a sound

Two days on the job

And I have to say

We had teething problems

when I came to stay

According to his owner’s

very explicit notes

Nino sleeps in his crate

he gets no votes

HA!

I do wondered

Does anyone perhaps know

If dearest Nino

Got a copy

Of THAT memo?

Cause the rascal was having

Non of that crap

He was sharing my bed

That was just that

So ever so kindly

I let him sleep with me

But it was like sharing with a mouse

With chronic PTSD

Or a small rat on acid

A better description yet

Running riot continuously

All over my head

He just wouldn’t settle.

There was nothing I could do

To calm this skinny creature

As his anxiety grew

Then after an hour

I attempted ‘tough love.’

(I was exhausted you know,

I had HAD enough)

So I defiantly closed

My bedroom door

And then did my very best

To quietly ignore

The winning and scratching

Sound that he made.

(He’s a relentless little bugger,

That’s all I can say!)

I lasted 20 minutes

And then I gave in…

(Was this a game

I could EVER win?)

I was so bloody exhausted

It was quarter to three

Feeling ever so frazzled:

“Will he EVER go to sleep?”

As I lay in my hazy

Sleepless limbo

I contemplated throwing Nino

Right out the window

But then by miracle

(Divine intervention of sorts)

An answer to the problem

I’m happy to report…

I was prompted to simply

Lift up the duvet

Nino crawled inside

He was suddenly OK!

All he wanted was to curl up

Close next to me

(OH Good Lord could it really

have been that easy?)

The moral of the story

Is Nino will only sleep

When he is cuddled up in a ball

Warm underneath

A blanket and hopefully

With somebody’s skin close by

He is the ultimate snuggle bug

This adorable little guy

I’m not particularly religious but I love this song!

Just such a lovely little piece of Africa., so I thought I would share it!