I love to feel very much part of nature when walking with the two evils of a morning.  The feeling of companionship is unique when sharing with your dog.

Then there are the down sides.

Three lessons learnt of late are:-

1  Do not wear lip gloss when dog walking as strolling through a cloud of midges leaves one looking like they have been at the 100 and 1,000's tin again, albeit all black eurgh....

2   Do NOT under any circumstances how your hand out to your dog whilst adopting the stern "leave it" command unless one is 100% sure that the illicit goods they are trying to quaff are not in the form of fossilised turds, origins of which are unknown!

3  Do not wear large hair butterfly clips whilst trying to dodge under the electric wire enclosing livestock fields.  The result of this is much humour vocally from farm workers picking the spuds at the sight of one strange woman doing river dance whilst apparently being electrocuted by said wire.  Just as well the aforementioned farm workers do not speak English (at least my very foul version at the time) as they might of taken a bit longer to come and untangle me.

It has been mentioned I must of looked like the Bride of Frankenstein being brought to life whilst on the receiving end of these shocks.  In future only elastic bands will be used to tie back my hair whilst walking

May I point out that in no way was any animal hurt or mistreated whilst initiating or viewing the above......until I got home that is.........................