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On another very wet but mild day, the decorator finished wall-papering the kitchen and I laid the carpet in the bathroom and cleared the kitchen floor ready for the vinyl floor-laying.
Sam sleeps and behaves well apart from not liking being confined during the day despite at least three longish exercise periods.
Today was a mild and wet day. We have had so much rain that it defies belief. After tending Sam, I started laying the carpet in the bathroom and managed to finish the under-lay by lunchtime. It took me just about the rest of the day to lay the actual carpet which was tricky involving, as it did, both bathroom and toilet in a single length with one join in the width. The decorator came this morning to finish off papering the kitchen and did this by lunchtime. I settled up with him at the same time and heard that he has still not received the money he is owed for another big job and the customer now looks very dodgy.
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With Sam settling into a routine and accompanying me everywhere, the decorator was wall-papering the bathroom as I took delivery of two bed chairs and laid the underlay ready for the carpet in the morning. A
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Sam was settling into something of a routine now and slept through the night again. He undergoes car trips without any problem, has had his first trip in a dinghy and is daily better at coming to heel, sitting and stopping on command. It is just his toilet training that I am struggling with. I took him along with me whilst I gave Doris Vincent a lift to the railway station and he behaved himself and was not distracted. The decorator was finishing off the wallpapering in the bathroom today and then I re-fitted the wall appliances and then started on the floor.
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Diana comes to visit to choose furnishings for Harnser on a nice and sunny day after mist early and frost later. Sam’s training was going better. The Prince and Princess of Wales are to separate after years of press speculation about the state of their marriage.
Sam slept through again, leaving a completely clean kennel and run and doing his morning's business on the check cord to order which was real progress. He got a bit more anxious before meal times and so I increased his food again. He was very good in the car and with Diana, keeping broadly to command once past his initial excitement. For the second day he retrieved the dummy in the alleyway where he could not get past me even if he wanted to. I went through my morning routine then stained one side of the three large internal doors in Harnser before leaving for Norwich with Sam in the back of the Range Rover. I met up with Di in B.&.Q. and we selected the vinyl for the kitchen and the underlay and other materials to lay the rest of the carpet in the bathroom.
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Sam sleeps through and retrieves his first dummy on an even milder day but still fouls his run. This as the carpet is laid in Harnser and I commission the storage heater. Over 400 people have now been killed in the religious riots in India and the government has a full-scale emergency on their hands.
After a late exercise, Sam slept through until 7.30am which was real progress. I tried him with his first dummy retrieve in the alley-way behind Harnser and he managed it well though I did not give him a chance to get past me before "giving" it back. He makes less progress with his toilet training, messing on the paper inside his kennel which I will now remove. He also regressed in his car behaviour by climbing into the back seat after I took down some of the barrier. After a good shaking, he then was very good again and so I was able to be equally positive and affectionate in praising him.
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