Sometimes keeping a blog seems like a Marathon run.  You need to keep going whatever the pain and push yourself over the line.  The changing seasons, longer days and ever growing list of things to do means that blogging slips down the priority list and I struggle with that.  Blogging has become so much part of my daily routine – a time for reflection, a point at which I can flex my creative thinking.  But when things get busy it seems like a luxury that’s hard to afford.

I’ve had a chat with my internal coach and we’ve agreed all I need to do is shift a few priorities, reorganise the routine and before long I’ll be back in the blogging rhythm again.

I do my best thinking first thing in the morning but with warmer days upon us the bassets needs must come first.  It’s that time of year that if you don’t get the hounds out on their walk and back before 0900 then you can forget it again until late into the day.  Bassets and heat are not a great combination (unless of course it’s a warm roaring fire).  If they over heat they simply flop down and do their flat basset act.

It’s a time of year when you have to be extra vigilant where you walk in case a basset is lounging around hanging their belly out for the cooling effect.  They can also be found flat out on the lawn – resting their chins on the soft cushioned ground.  Now all this flat basset behaviour is cute but flat bassets also seem to develop sucker like tendencies which mean that a flat basset won’t be moved.  It’s like a dead weight pressing further into the earth.

The only thing to shift a flat basset will be the offer of food.  And only then if you feed them like a Roman lying in repose.  It appears cheese is their snack of choice.