I'm still not happy, in actual fact I'm pretty bloody angry!
Pa's had a day off today - slacking, striking or something - and instead of taking yours truly (man's best friend?) to the park, he's going shopping!

Even worse - Christmas shopping!  Unbelievable, it's still soddin' November...

The humanoid calender is surely the same as the canine one - yes?  On my Meercat picture for December, Christmas day is definitely on there - i'll double check but I'm sure it is...

I'm off for a lie-down, all this anger is making me tired.

Pa needs to get a man in...

This doesn't sound at all right to me.  I know I'm only a canine, but I'm a fairly astute one (in my opinion) and this doesn't sound good.
He ought to stop buggering about thinking of other men and sort out a reliable plumber.  The boiler on the wall in my room is making one hell of a racket - it's woke me up early 3 mornings running now - I'm not happy!

I might pitch a tent in the kitchen and start a silent protest, although I haven't actually got a tent and pitching it sounds tricky... I'm still not happy...

Had a really good wiggle at the weekend, Sunday afternoon I was home alone but someone had left the radio on in the kitchen, Radio 1 I think.
I've got  a new favourite track too - not sure exactly what it's called or who it's by - might be something like Lloyd - hopefully nothing to do with bankers, but I'm not altogether sure - but it's great, a real paw-tapper.

Maybe u should download it?
I have no idea what that means, but they say it all the bloody time on the radio. They also like weekends (a lot), they start the countdown on Monday and by Wednesday it seems the weekend has nearly begun in radio-land.
In Simon-land (that's me!) it doesn't really matter, I just try to enjoy every day!

Do you like my new positive attitude?  Yeah, me too...

I saw my old pal Hector yesterday when we went walkies to the park.  I've not seen him for ages with all that's been going on.

I bumped in to him - I literally couldn't avoid him - he's even fatter than the last time I saw him.  He gets 7 meals a day on average, including sausages and extra treats!
He's a lovely fella, rotund but lovely.  It was great to see him and catch up for just a few minutes.

I think I might have to re-consider my daily routine (I'm a creature of habit u know), but I don't get fed 7 times a day - maybe I'm being neglected...

I think Pa's in training for 'Grumpy Old Man of the Year 2011' - he's getting gradually more angry as each Winter evening passes, just watching the goggle-box and especially when Snooze at Ten comes on (at 10 o-clock I think).
His favourite whinging phrases this week are, in no particular order as they say - 'Bloody strikes next week, that won't help any of us;'  'Still it could be worse, we could live in Egypt...'  'There's no jobs out there pal and it's gonna get worse before it gets any better!'  'Everything's going up - food, petrol, gas, electric - it's ludicrous;'  'Robbie Savage really ought to know better. Still, he always was a bit of an arse...'

I don't really understand why he moans outloud and talks to the tv, but then again I don't understand humanoid behaviour much at all these days.  I don't think Pa should be studying Robbie's arse though - surely that's just weird...  

I usually listen to Steve Wright in the afternoon on Radio 2 if I can, but I couldn't today so I watched what I think was some sort of foreign language film on channel 4, but without subtitles...

So many meaningless phrases, just one after another all the way through the show - 'follow your heart', 'The pilgrims?' 'smile money', 'life changing money', 'only here once (OHO)', 'curse of the newby', 'the death box', 'a one box game', 'the guvnor' and ' a banker spanking'.

An old phone, red and blue numbers, complete randomness and a funny looking bloke with fuzz on his face - I didn't understand a word of it!  It may as well have been in chinese and I only speak dog, cat and old-English humanoid.  I'm even more confused than usual today.

'Todays Top Tip'

Don't put your wet nose where it's not wanted!
I spent two & a half hours yesterday afternoon with my nose stuck in the cat-flap...
Not funny, embarressing and quite painful just in case you're interested.  Today I look like I should be attending Rudolph auditions.
I'm going back to bed now, I can't face the world today.