WEDNESDAY 17th August: Reverse tunnelling
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Cato:
Big Lake walk! Oooh Aunties, it was LOVELY! We hadn't been out since ages and ages, and Tara was so full of bounce it was unbearable! Mum checked her magic weather predictor thing, and it was going to be cool! So we set off. Round the lake. One lady laughed at Tara's mohawk, and said how sweet it is. Yuck. Who wants to be sweet?
The big hissy swans are all huge and floating about in groups. Mum says they still have all six babies, but they aren't babies any more, are they? They could eat me for breakfast!
Ducks hiding from us, on the water. 
Lots of people even here. Very wobbly on their bikes! Mum makes us stand on the grass, but last time somebody drove OFF the path towards us! He wasn't very bright, was he, Aunties?
Mum found some boring stinky flowers to pic. But it was nice to sit down. We had water and played Truffle Hound, and I had a rest.
But it turned out that MrMAgicWeather got it wrong, because half way round the sun came out and got us hot hot hot.
Mum picked me up without asking, before we had to trek across here. Very spiky it was, on the knickers!
I don't think I could have managed all the way on that hot ground. I love Mum. She was cross with herself cos the sun came out, and said it SHOULD have been fine, and she kept apologising, but I don't know how she could have stopped it. She held me so my tummy could cool down again, but there was no wind, so it didn't work.
We had a good long sit down though, and 2 drinks, and finished the water. Mum had to stand and give us some shade, but of course Tara wanted to sit in the sun, so Mum had to keep moving the shade around. Tara is very silly.
But eventually, we got to the tunnel. And this time we went in through the out, and out through the in. It was very exciting. and going the reverse way made all the sniffs new again. It was LOVELY in there. No mud, just dry cracked hard earth, but it was cool and interesting and sniffy, and I felt much better. We even had a little fight, but even Tara was tired by now.
Tara:
I got the fight going by grabbing his tail. That ALWAYS works. Hahaha!
And look at me Fu Dogging! Don't I look fantastically ferocious! This is the best move EVER!!! See the white of my Fu Eye? and me using my whole weight to crush his feebleness? Very Ninja, aren't I?
Cato got all floppy again, but we were both panting a lot. I got all raspy too today, although I expect he was so busy being carried that he didn't notice! We didn't stop panting til we got home, and then we slept all afternoon, but it was a really good walk, and there were bits that were too hot to sniff, so we have to go back and sniff them. Soon.
Mum:
Here is that vetch again. It has now grown up and scrambled into the hawthorn. Looks fabulous.
The first Teasels I have seen. 
My mother always used to pick them, dry them, and then spray them with gold for Xmas decorations. Very 70s.
I think these tiny yellow flowers are orchids. Never seen them before, and each flower is only about 1/4 of an inch. You can compare them with the pink clover flowers.
I love this. Only 2 inched across, these bracts looked like lace. And that bee is sticking his tongue out at us!
This man is very, um... gaumless. I mean, look at him. Bait box open, behind him, where he can't see dogs raiding it. And a bag of food at his feet. Absolutely asking for some great labrador or poodle or spaniel to come sweeping through, hoovering everything up. Tut tut. He won't make it through the day without a disaster.
Luckily my two couldn't see him over the long grass!
And this is why you should never throw your cigarette butts away when out walking. How bad could that have been?!?!?
My guess is that they didn't even know they had caused the fire. Just tossed their cig butt away, and carried on walking. By the time the fire would have taken hold, they would have been well away. IDIOTS!!!
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