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2. Strange Times & Social Distancing

Spud • 10 June 2020

 Guest Blogger, Spud the Brewery Dog

Hello, I'm Spud and I live with four humans by the sea in Borrisdale.

For the last few months all of the humans have been home ALL OF THE TIME! This has been very strange as I'm used to having time to myself during the day for eating, napping and barking at stuff. Apparently they have been locked down. I'm not sure what they did but they can only leave the house for exercise and they haven't had a haircut for months. Welcome to my world humans!

This year has been very quiet in Borrisdale. When the wind is blowing we don't have many visitors here but when the sun starts shining we usually have walkers and cyclists to bark at, this year I have had to make do with the Postman and a few sheep. Sometimes when I take the humans for a walk they see other humans and talk about sanitiser and social distancing.

Instead of going to work one of the older humans has been going to a "Brewshed" and the other one spends the day in my favourite chair shouting at the computer. They keep saying how busy they are and how much they have got to do. The younger humans used to go to school in Tarbert but now they just talk to their computers in their bedrooms and watch something called Netflix at night. They keep saying how bored they are and how there is nothing to do.

It's all very confusing!

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