I hate this time of year. I do not like getting up in the dark, nor do I like it being dark before 4:30 pm. Cold weather, slippery pavements, driving rain, wind and all sorts of Winter nastiness conspire to make me want to hide away for 3 months, or run off to sunnier climes. Maybe one of these days, I will.
To cheer you up this Monday morning, here is a picture that is guaranteed to make you smile. It’s even better than this old favourite:
Here’s Willie Rennie getting up close and personal with one of Canine Concern Scotland’s wonderful therapets.
These therapets visit places like care homes and hospitals so that people who can’t have a pet full time can experience the companionship and comfort a dog can give.
Willie Rennie caught up with one:
It’s ripe for a caption competition. Do your best work, dear readers.
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what are you doing with that ugly old mutt? (I.m asking the dog)
David Laws to the pony: “I see you have a leg in each corner. I told them I wouldn’t be the last of the ‘four-cornered’ Liberals”.
Dog to Willie Rennie: “My god, you’re a handsome brute”.
Willie to dog: My manifesto is bigger than your manifesto
– Oi, Churchill! are dissatisfied with attempts to seced from your namesake’s European Charter of Human Rights?
– oh, yerrrs
David Laws on the comeback trail. He’s thinking; “I’ve tried kissing babies, perhaps this will get me the equestrian vote”.
Following his encounter with Mr Rennie, when asked how he was feeling, the boxer dog relied; “Ruff!”