#Benching trains

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Lisbon 2024

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military training

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Right on Track

(December 21, 2022)

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💥🚦🎲

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canes @ islanders 12/07/24

these two🥺🥺🥺

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Bench-Finder

Ever since I adopted Flynn, he’s had a habit of “finding” & showing me benches he comes across. He will excitedly run to the bench & then hang around, watching keenly as I approach, making sure I notice what he’s showing me. Flynn seems quite disappointed if I ignore his find - he’ll hang back by the seat for a time & give me the same expression he might if I refused a request to play. 

Over the years, Flynn has even taken to physically herding me towards certain favourite benches - like this one! If I seem like I am going to pass the bench without stopping, Flynn will drift into my path, then stop dead, standing right in front of my feet, body angled strategically so that, in order for me to step around Flynn, I also have to step towards the bench. He is... surprisingly good at pushing you in the way he wants you to go. He’ll do this to one or two of our close friends too. 

While generally focused on benches, Flynn also has a remarkable memory for any random place I’ve stopped for a rest... If I once sat on a fallen tree trunk, or a stump, or a wall, or rock, then when we pass that way again - even many weeks later & even if it’s well off the path - Flynn will start trying to usher me that way again. “Here’s your seat, Madam!”

This insistence I regularly stop & sit makes me laugh because Flynn is definitely not doing it because he wants a rest... & I know he also finds me stopping for a break on walks terribly boring. I know this, because generally within a few seconds of me complying & sitting down (& getting observed by the dog!), Flynn decides, “Right. Job done. The human is rested, time to move” & starts hopping about, doing his “Get up, get up, get up!” dance. If that doesn’t work, he’ll try to get me onto my feet & down the path, using his ball as a lure, but that’s another story.

I’d assume Flynn insists I sit (briefly!) because *sometimes* he gets a treat when we stop at a bench but he gets treats regularly while we walk - & I play with him throughout too... So when & why did The Human Must Sit On The Bench become a rule, in Flynn’s collie mind? 

He’s a weird little dog.

A weird & manipulative little dog. I think I’ve been trained & I’m not certain what for!! 

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FCBarcelona: W! 💚

(twitter, 31/10/24)

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Such a nice morning with the girls!

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London 2024

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saw our first wedding venue today 👰🏼‍♀️💗💗💗

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90s Sergei Snippets - Detroit Red Wings

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This boy lurking at the station surely had the best train-lover t-shirt seen this year so far. And of course, he was into shooting photos of all those trains, too!

so who needs friends..when you got trains!

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