{"id":839,"date":"2016-05-11T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/?page_id=839"},"modified":"2016-05-11T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:52:29","slug":"georges-guffaws-10-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/about-us\/hope-springs-gang-gazettes\/georges-guffaws\/georges-guffaws-10-may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"George&#8217;s Guffaws &#8211; 10 May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cor&#8217; Blimey Dudes, you should see the creek at our place since the rain yesterday! Dog Father says &#8220;Georgie, Me Boy &#8211; don&#8217;t you and Mildred (Maisie) go chasin&#8217; our ducks and geese today or they gonna jump in the water and be swept away to Timbuktu afore you know it&#8221;. I was checkin out that creek an it looks so high, I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; I can walk on it and jus walk right over to them ducks an say Hi!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I put out my foot and Dog Mother said &#8220;George, you Ratbag &#8211; Do No<span class=\"text_exposed_hide\">&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">t!!&#8221; So I went off to do summink else for a minnit and wait till that Ol&#8217; Dog Muvver&#8217;s not watchin! <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Me an Mayse went and said &#8216;Ullo to the neighbours cows &#8211; an I saw Sandy havin a big run as well. She looked pretty happy bout it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The wet grass is nearly as big as Snowie &#8211; so she don&#8217;t like it too much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got a new thing ta do. Our new Pilgrim Geese are really big an they come marchin out to work in the veggie patch each mornin wiv the Runner Ducks. It&#8217;s like they on a chain gang or summat. I like to run full pelt up to the fence and then just stop. That Reuben Goose flaps his big wings at me &#8211; like he&#8217;s gonna box me ears but he&#8217;s too heavy to get off the ground and fly over the fence so he&#8217;s safe &#8211; an so am I.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-840 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/George-Collage-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"George Collage\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/George-Collage-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/George-Collage-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/George-Collage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/George-Collage-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/George-Collage-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/George-Collage.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Me an Maisie&#8217;s good mates &#8211; like I tol&#8217; ya b&#8217;fore &#8211; but she shore is a Miss Bossy Boots Britches Bully sometimes. She likes ta play chasey an then have a good &#8216;ol wrassle &#8211; so she barks at me an then we chase an then she goes the full hip an shoulder (an fat ass) all rammin into me full pelt like a star rugby player. Man, it fair knocks me off ma feet an takes the wind fair outa me sails.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Las&#8217; thing we do is go an see if the Pacca Boys waitin at the fence an if they are &#8211; we bark ferociously at them &#8211; an they ignore us &#8211; &#8216;crept that Kuna &#8211; who says Nyah Nyah &#8211; Yer Mutha was a dog &#8211; an yer Father prolly was, too &#8211; an he sticks his long neck over the fence an grins\u00a0 at me with his big bucky teeth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After that &#8211; we have ta get chased inside &#8211; cause Me an Maisie&#8217;s always last &#8211; an then we get Milky Stick Treats &#8211; but we have ta sit &#8211; b&#8217;cause that&#8217;s the cost of &#8217;em!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Did I tell ya&#8217; I&#8217;m not really a good sitter &#8211; cause I&#8217;m too busy &#8211; got so much to do, Yoh!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cor&#8217; Blimey Dudes, you should see the creek at our place since the rain yesterday! Dog Father says &#8220;Georgie, Me Boy &#8211; don&#8217;t you and Mildred (Maisie) go chasin&#8217; our ducks and geese today or they gonna jump in the water and be swept away to Timbuktu afore you know it&#8221;. I was checkin out that creek an it looks so high, I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; I can walk on it and jus walk right over to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":468,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/839\/revisions\/843"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hsedr.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}