{"id":46,"date":"2009-11-22T17:58:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-02-07T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:03:22","slug":"move-over-mr-darcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Move Over Mr. Darcy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Puppy Love<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Move over Mr. Darcy, I have a new love in my life! He\u2019s a very handsome chap and, just like Darcy, looks rather dapper in his black and white outfit. He also has a cold wet snuffly nose and four enormous paws, which I\u2019m fairly certain Fitzwilliam Darcy didn\u2019t possess. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some weeks ago we took delivery of our very first dog, a Cocker spaniel puppy called Cublington Lord Nogman (get you Darcy \u2013 you were just a plain Mister!). I have to confess, though, that our aristocratic Lord Cublington is also known as Bertie … or Ratbag or The Beast, depending on what he\u2019s got up to!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He shares some other characteristics with my beloved Mr. Darcy \u00a0<\/span>\u2013 a fine appreciation of the female of the species, a rather elegant manner (with a long nose he sticks up in the air!) and a tendency not to kow-tow to those considered beneath him. However, I\u2019m pretty sure Darcy never rolled in cow pats, stuck his head up ladies\u2019 skirts or weed on the rug … or maybe that was in the sequel to Pride and Prejudice that Jane Austen never got around to writing!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bertie also displays a fine sense of impish humour: untying my shoelaces just as I\u2019ve knotted them in preparation for a walk, stealing my slippers just as I\u2019m about to put them on and putting a great big paw on the keyboard, causing some very interesting spelling mistakes. Perhaps then, he has more in common with my other Austen hero, Mr. Tilney? <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bertie\u2019s all time favourite treat is a really good tummy rub and I expect Messrs Darcy and Tilney weren\u2019t averse to those either!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is one problem; I may never have the time to write ever again! Trying to work while Bertie the Beast patrols the garden, I have to continually break off to rescue him from bees, stop him terrorising the chickens next door and digging holes in our now not very pristine lawn. I can\u2019t imagine Jilly Cooper ever having this problem!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Puppy Love Move over Mr. Darcy, I have a new love in my life! He\u2019s a very handsome chap and, just like Darcy, looks rather dapper in his black and white outfit. He also has a cold wet snuffly nose and four enormous paws, which I\u2019m fairly certain Fitzwilliam Darcy didn\u2019t possess. Some weeks ago […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,19,21,18],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cocker-spaniels","tag-henry-tilney","tag-jilly-cooper","tag-mr-darcy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}