Samson's Adventure 23 June 2020

Hello all my dear frends out in Blogland. I is Samson wot is a puppy wot wos borned on the beautiful verdant island of Corfu in Greece. Have I got a story to tell you! Last Wednesday I got up as usual an’ went out to play wiv’ Luna an’ Delilah but wen they had brekfast The Missus didn’t give me eny, wot I fort to be very unfair. Next minute The Missus an’ the Boss wiv the furry face popped me in the back of the car. I wosn’t keen on that idea so I jumped out agen. They picked me up an put me back in the car then drove me to the Vet. I was only sicked once on the way ‘cos I only had drunk water. The vet was very nice to me an gave me one of those horrid wormy pills and yuckky spot on treatments and then signed lots of pages in my passport. He sed “have a good trip Samson”. Wot wos he on about?

Wen we got back home to the little house on the side of the hill in Corfu I went an’ hid under the sofa as I wasn’t too keen on having that spot on stuff all over my body. Then the Missus gave me a huge brekfast, and huge lunch and a huge dinner as she sed I needed to build myself up. For wot? Then a strange lady and man came to see me and Delilah. We were both scared so hid under the sofas. The lady was named Sam an’ she sed “Don’t you recognise me Samson? I wos the person who rescued you, an’ I have come to say goodbye.” She and The Missus then opened a bottle of bubbly stuff and started to drink it which appeared to make them very happy and chatty, although they both seemed to be really very sad. One bottle of the bubbly stuff wos not enough they sed, so they opened anuvva one. All to help them say good bye- To who?? I had a bad feeling about this. So hid even further under the sofa.

Then Thursday morning I got up as usual an’ played wiv Luna an’ Delilah, and once agen they wos given brekfast an’ I didn’t get eny. I was mightily miffed about this. Prejudice agenst boys! I scratched and jumped at the glass doors from outside but they wouldn’t let me in until the girls had finished their brekfast. Later on I was given one measly piece of meat wot I found out later was hiding a pill to help me not get car sick. I was about to find out why. The Missus kept looking at her phone for messages. Then she and The Boss decided to have lunch while they wos waiting. For wot? I was so hungry and their lunch of fish smelled so good I almost got my mouth round The Missus’ sandwish but she didn’t give me eny. I didn’t understand why. I was most upset. Then suddenly her phone went ‘ding’ and they got up, picked me up and put me in the back of the car again. This time I definitely wosn’t going in the car so I leped out and it was sheer bad luck fer me that The Boss managed to stomp on my lead as I flew past his feet. So back in the car I went. The Missus heaved a sigh of relief. She sed she didn’t fancy chasing me around Corfu all day wen we had to be somewhere. Where?

A few minutes and a short drive later we arrived in the village square and there was a big White van wiv “Wheel Deliver” writted on it’s side. A man named Ermal picked me up an cuddled me an’ put me in the van. I had my own cage, and wen I looked around I saw the van had lots of other dogs in there too. One of them I learned was Aunty ‘Nella an she was coming wiv me to wherever it wos we wos going. I hadn’t a clue. They then drove off wiv me an’ I didn’t even get to say goodbye to The Missus and The Boss. I wonder if I did somfink rong? Enyway they then picked up 2 more dogs and we all got to have a walk and some food. After that we went on a big boat to wot the hoomans call the mainland. I is not understanding wot is main land. Why is Corfu Isle-land and uvva places main land? Then we drove a long way and stopped lots of times for food an’ walkies. I hadn’t really ever walked on a lead as I refused to leave our house in Corfu but I soon realised that was the way to go walkies and went wiv the flow. In the next few days we drove frew many foreign countries wot languages I doesn’t understand, like Bulgarian, Hungarian, Austrian. German, French. Wen’ we got to French land in a place called Calay we got stopped an’ had to wait an wait for a place to go on a ship becos the Frenchland peeps were on strike. I is not understanding strikes. There is thousands of peeps dying in the world from this virus thing, peeps have to stay in their houses, and thousands of peeps have lost their jobs, and yet in French land they goes on strike. Wot is that about? Is it anuvva disease? I is not sure. Anyway the strike made us a day late to get to where we was going. We doggies got fed an’ walked an slept a lot so it wosn’t eny bovver for us, but must have been very stressful for the hoomans. I got to really like Emal- he wos nice.

So finally after 4 days I has arrived in a place called Chef field. I fink it must be named after a cook wot had a field. It is famous for making steel and a movie called The Full Monty. I is not knowing wot a Monty is. Does enyone know? It is also famous becos once upon a time The Missus chaired a conference at the Chef Field- Hallum Universitity. I is not knowing wot is a Universitity. It must be sumfink rude.

She and the Boss also drove to Chef Field once as it has a big ice arena and a man named Evgeny Plushenko wos skating there, and the Missus and The Boss’s muvva all wonted to see this Evgeny chap skate. Now I is wondering how humans skate? I haven’t even seen ice so I hasn’t eny idea, but I fink they put steel bits on their boots and glide around on the ice or somfink like that. The Missus discovered Evgeny wen she was on their boat in Mexico. They had sailed it to a place called Mazatlan and used to go in a bar there called Heather’s Place to sing Karaoke. The Missus likes to sing Karaoke. We cover our ears- and groan. An’ there wos also a man named Robert Howes who could sing Nessun Dorma butifully but also sang Tom Jones songs including the song Delilah wot my sister is named after. They became good frends as both liked to sing Karaoke but Robert has a fabulius voice, just listen to one of his songs and hear for yourself : https://youtu.be/KX3oirBmqWI . The Missus sed there was anuvva Tom Jones song that Robert could sing. He had never heard of it, so she went on Yoo toob on her ‘puter ( yes she even had one back in the olden days on their boat wiv a bald mouse wot she stroked) and found the song. It was being skated to by Evgeny Plushenko wot she had never heard of and wos amazed wot this man wos doing to win the world championship. She wos so amazed that she had to wotch it over an’ over an’ over agen. The Boss wiv the furry face was varnishing the boat an’ so The Missus hadn’t got much else to do. Enyway The Boss walked past as she was wotching Evgeny on her laptop an’ sed to the Missus “That guy can skate”. “Can he?” She asked. She hadn’t noticed. It seems that wen The Boss wos young many, many years before, he was an excellent skater an’ could spin round, and skate backwards, an used to go to an ice rink to pick up the girls. I is puzzled how you can pick up girls as they weigh quite a lot, but it seems you can. Enyway the Boss showed the Missus that if she wotched wot Evgeny was actually doing and not wot she thort he wos doing she would see he was jumping Triples an’ Quadruples an’ he wos the best skater in the world an’ wos having fun winning the contest. Why don’t you take a look an’ see him skating to the Tom Jones song? Here’s the link just hit crtl click on it https://youtu.be/H1qgDHoyJro . Wot do you fink? Why didn’t she notice he could skate?

So The Missus, The Boss an’ his Muvva drove hundreds of miles to Sheffield to see Evgeny Plushenko. An guess wot’? He never showed up! There were uvva skaters but not the man they went to see. They wos very disappointed.

So now I am in Sheffield I fink there will be a lot of ice and I will lern to skate, an my new family will video me an put me on YooToob, so The Missus can see me pulling triples and quadruples and love me even though she and the Boss are a million miles away in Corfu.

As to my new home. It is lovely. I has my own furry bed to sleep in an’ a cuddly toy. I have never had a bed of my own nor a toy, so my dream has come true. But also I have a new frend called Woody. He is much bigger than me an’ he is not very well so I have to be gentle wiv him wen I play. They have already taken me out for a walk and let me paddle in a stream, which is like---oooo heaven!! Then they gave me chicken for dinner- even more heavenly, can it get eny better than that?

I want to say a BIG THANK YOU to Tania and Chris for adopting me and paying for all my vet care, transport and passport, they are so very kind. My mikelchip has been registered in Britten. So I have a whole new life in Britten and have now sed good bye to my old life in Corfu. Sending loads of licks to everyone I left behind: The Missus (who will she follow around wiv a mop and bucket now?), The Boss wiv the furry face, Sam wot saved me and Delilah’s life, Algy, Bertie, Flo, my Sister Delilah an’ of course Luna. Hope they all have happy lives. Bye to all my friends in Facebookland. Lick ,lick, lick.

PS they say I have brought the good Corfu weather wiv' me. It's going to be 30C tomorrow in Sheffield. Hotter than Corfu.