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Online Diary 2007 December

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Christmas presents and a turkey dinner!
Tue 25 Dec 2007

Today is Christmas Day. Beattie was woken up early at 6.30 as I had to take her out for a walk before starting to cook our Christmas lunch. The bird had to be in the oven by 7.15 as it would take the best part of six hours to cook. Our turkey was a very large 8kg bird as we were having company today, our good friends J & K with god-daughter Ka.

It was a swift walk for the 'necessaries' only as it was still pitch black outside and threatening to rain, which it did quite shortly after my return. I did not want to get involved with anything until the turkey was safely in the oven. It was a free-range bird from our local butcher. I had been given cooking instructions by the butcher, but these were different from the normal way I cook poultry so I stuck to the tried and tested 20 minutes per half-kilo and 20 minutes extra. It usually works for me!

Once the oven door was closed I could relax for a while and watch Beattie open her presents, two different doggy toys, a snowman and a reindeer. The snowman did not last very long in her jaws as the head and body were connected by green rope, which she had soon separated and that was the end of the snowman. As the reindeer was made of plastic it survived the whole day! She was also given a bag of large doggy treats meant to aid teeth cleaning! She was well through the first one when I read the packet which stated that these treats were meant for full-size adult large dogs! Beattie was having no trouble at all in munching her way through the entire bone!

At least this meant that she was not very hungry for the rest of the day. I saved her some turkey breast and vegetables to add to her dried food and she enjoyed her turkey dinner in the evening! After this, all she had the energy for was to lay on the sofa next to the recumbent body of A and doze for the rest of the day! Lucky dog! Back

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