Medium Size Adventure ...

Wow, every day is different at the moment. Weather was great today and so there was some slobbing around in the undergrowth to be done. There was also the back of the house to check out, see what was happening there.

And then there was next door's barn ...

I hadn't been in the barn for a while so I decided to nip in and have a poke around. I hadn't really noticed the big hole in the floorboards before, there was always enough of interest on the ground floor to keep my nose pointing down. But yesterday I looked up. Brilliant, I thought, better nip up there and see what's what. So a couple of jumps and a bit of a scrabble with my back paws and I was up. It was great, there were loads of new smells and little holes to poke. One of them was big enough to get my whole body in and so I did. Guess what, I found myself outside on a little roof. It was miles up in the air and I could see loads more than I can see from the garden walls. Anyway, after a while, I had sniffed and poked enough to want to come back down. The trouble was, I couldn't remember how. By this time, the slaves had appeared, one seemed a bit worried about me being on the little roof for some reason.

Anyway, the other slave shouted my name but I couldn't tell where he was. So I ended up back on the roof and shouted back. I wanted to go down at that point but didn't know how, it was actually too far even for me to jump straight down. So I howled a bit more. Then I thought about it for a while and went back inside. The slave shouted again and it actually seemed like he was near the hole where we go into the barn. So I headed that way. I still couldn't find my way. Anyway, cutting a long story short, a while later, I was near the big hole in the floorboards and I saw the slave poke his head through the broken window of the barn door and he shouted me again. I still didn't know how to get down so I howled a bit.

Then I stopped to think about things and figured that I had to get down through the hole in the floor. So gingerly (even though I only have a bit of ginger!!) I climbed down onto the beam that supported the floor before it had broken. There was another beam fastened to the wall, so with a bit of twisting and pussyfooting (and whimpering) I squeezed myself onto that. Then I held my breath and jumped down onto the top of a narrow wooden partition (it was only the same width as my paws) and from there I dropped onto the floor among a load of wooden fruit boxes. Job done. A few seconds to compose myself and I was able to casually stroll out and took a drink from the watering can as if all was well with the world.