> # Re: Walking the dog

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> Posted by Richard on October 06, 2016 at 16:35:07

> In Reply to: Re: Walking the dog posted by wetchas on October 06, 2016 at 08:44:44:

> Today's walk was completely unremarkable - thank goodness - and to my surprise when I got downstairs ready to set off after pulling on my boots, I found Ben waiting and ready to go all togged up in his anorak and boots. He said he woken early and was having trouble sleeping. We had a nice walk and it was the first time I have been out with him on his own without one or both of his brothers.

> He wanted a chat about being bullied at school. He's a bright lad and it seems some of his fellow class members resent it and make that known by demanding he do their homework in exchange for NOT getting beaten-up. I think a chat with his teachers is in order and he agreed that we discuss it with Karen, Adam and Callum to find out their views on solutions. I know the school has a zero tolerance policy on bullying but it still goes on to a degree.

> I was bullied at school but it was nothing on the scale of what seems to go on these days with pressure from social media and so on. Perfectly nice kids can be complete horrors when let loose on their phones/computers.

> Anyway, to lighten things up after the chat I let him stomp around in a few puddles and he ended up jumping in the pond I fell in, getting soaked almost to his waist and laughing aloud at the result as Pepper jumped around making him even wetter. It made him happier anyway.

> Yup, sympathy from Karen was in even shorter supply when we got home with both Ben and Pepper needing to be hosed down !

> It is getting a bit too chilly in the late afternoons and evenings now for the boys to use the pool or mud-pit but they may do so if it is sunny at the weekend. They still wander off to school without coats whatever the weather and some of the schoolgirls you see around here look like they might be apprentice "professional women" from the length of skirts they wear. Kids today !

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>       - Re: Walking the dog Richard 22:18:54 10/06/2016 (0)
>       - Re: Walking the dog LevilovR 21:56:44 10/06/2016 (7)
>         - Re: Walking the dog Richard 22:15:45 10/06/2016 (6)
>           - Re: Walking the dog Zonie 06:41:58 10/07/2016 (5)
>             - Re: Walking the dog Richard 19:03:56 10/07/2016 (0)
>             - Re: Walking the dog LevilovR 10:36:47 10/07/2016 (3)
>               - Re: Walking the dog Richard 18:56:38 10/07/2016 (2)
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