I have been absent for a long time because of a couple of reasons.

Firstly, it is Summer. I love summer - it is warm and there are lot of sunshine hours for me to be sleeping away.

Secondly, mum got a 'promotion at work'. Stupid work. The humans were all very excited, but all I see it meaning is she is out of the house a lot more and this means I sit at the door demanding to be let in, and nobody is there to do it. I, Daisy, have to climb through the window passed the stupid dogs.

I have thought long and hard about the punishment for this and have found 3 that work extremely well.

The first is that I wait for the bed side clock to make this picture: 4:00. Then I jump on mum, leap over the clock and knock the lamp down. She doesn't half snarl.

The second is that I wait for the beside clock to make this picture: 6.44 and then I sit on top of it. For some reason the radio doesn't click on when I sit on it and mum 'sleeps through the alarm'. This also causes her great anguish.

Finally, just to vary it, I sleep in the little room with the loo in it. Then I wake up and pretend I don't know where I am or how I got there. So I scream. Mum comes running (as she should), though this backfired a little 3 weeks ago when she bashed the big, noisy sucky thing she calls the vacuum and 'broke her toe'. Now she limps and complains constantly about how much it hurts and tries to show me the buising. Ewwww - that is not ladylike. Do not waive your strange looking foot in my face. I, Daisy, do not care.

I have much more to talk about so I have insisted that my secretary takes time to keep you up to date with my news. She has promised she will make more time between work and other commitments. As she is the one who puts the food in the bowls on demand, I will have to compromise as I still cannot open the fridge door by myself. I am sure I can come up with some new punishments should she fail me, Daisy.