{"id":553,"date":"2008-09-19T16:46:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T16:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=553"},"modified":"2008-09-19T16:50:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T16:50:31","slug":"i-was-only-sniffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"I was only sniffing &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Honest!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-554\" title=\"featherbeard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/featherbeard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/featherbeard.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/featherbeard-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But somehow I ended up with a beard full of feathers whilst guarding this morning. I think I found someone&#8217;s dinner left-overs.<\/p>\n<p>Actually I &#8216;sort of&#8217; caught a pheasant myself the other day. Dad and I were walking around the Lakes when we came across this pheasant which was stuck in a small enclosure &#8230; great excitement on my part &#8230; I dashed in, came out with a mouthful of feathers, dashed in again &#8230; and the pheasant stopped running about obviously accepting it&#8217;s inevitable fate!\u00a0 &#8230; Well, that&#8217;s no fun at all, so I sniffed at it &#8230; and walked away. It lived to see another day.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a lot of rain in the last 2 weeks and the river by the Lakes was flowing very high. One morning me and Mum found a dead swan there \ud83d\ude41 That was sad. I had a little sniff around it.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later when we were up there again I saw these two swans on our side of the river quite a way away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-555\" title=\"watchingswans\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/watchingswans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/watchingswans.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/watchingswans-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can just make out the white dot in the distance. These pictures were taken with a phone camera &#8211; hence not so good.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I stopped and looked &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-556\" title=\"stillwatching\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/stillwatching.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/stillwatching.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/stillwatching-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and eventually sat down to watch them &#8230; for 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;d finished watching them I carried on past them without bothering them \ud83d\ude42 I like swans. Later on by the river I was &#8216;beachcombing&#8217; the bank and found this excellent ball!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-557\" title=\"reward\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reward.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reward.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reward-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mum said it&#8217;s a reward for being such a good boy with the swans!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Bye for now.<\/p>\n<p>Finni <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-273\" title=\"paw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/BluePawTiny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honest! But somehow I ended up with a beard full of feathers whilst guarding this morning. I think I found someone&#8217;s dinner left-overs. Actually I &#8216;sort of&#8217; caught a pheasant myself the other day. Dad and I were walking around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/?p=553\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ragamuffinn.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}