Bus Jaunts and Bionic Jaws

Today’s photo shows Jay with a durable but soft toy fish I chose with great care an hour or two ago.  He seems to take great pleasure in dismembering any toy he is given (apart from Nylobones, Kongs and  rubber rings).

  I now realise that the greater the challenge of the toy the more he will delight in dismembering it  and revealing the innards.  Sadly, the fish lasted very little time before he had succeeded in removing it’s nose and unearthing the stuffing inside.  Oh Jay!!

This morning, after a day off,  I think Jay was keen to have his harness back on.  We still had some bits to fill in on the route to the Learning and Development Centre, so we caught a bus part of the way and then tackled a complex crossing.  Most Worcester crossings have little knurled cones on the posts which rotate when it is safe to cross, so it isn’t the crossings themselves which cause us some difficulty -  it is the positioning of the posts themselves.  In theory this is simple - they are supposed to be positioned on the side of the crossing where the nearest traffic is coming from.  The problem is that in places they are on the same post as stinky rubbish bins or else are so far away from the actual crossing (often on a kind of plinth) that it can be difficult to locate them.  Also my arms aren’t always long enough to stand at the kerb and have one finger on the little knob to check when it is turning.

The final bit of the route is also tricky because it involves crossing a car park at an angle and picking up the pavement at the other side.   This is one of the hardest things to do if you can’t see much or at all, because once you are in the middle of an open space it is easy to become disorientated and miss the gateway or other landmark you are trying to find.  For me this situation is where my dogs really come into their own and both Jerry and now Jay take me safely to the Centre entrance. 

Tomorrow Karen is going to send us off sort of unaccompanied, although she will be following in the car.  It will be interesting to see how Jay works without her reassuring presence. 

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