Getting ready …

Smuggler is getting angsty 😟

As soon as the rucksacks came out and the clothes were sorted, Smugs started to look worried. He's followed us around the house and laid on our feet for the last week.

This morning I laid out a row of special treats in the bathroom, which he knows is the cue for "a bathee". He was really good and climbed into the shower when I asked him to. Afterwards he knew he would be allowed to choose his treats. He saved the biggest till last, but probably because he couldn't get hold of it on the edge of the washstand! 

We've told him he's looking beautiful, but his expression says it all — "you're leaving me …"

Now it's time for him to have his own adventure, a month aboard Narrowboat Gordanneus. 

There's no need to worry, he adores our friends Sheila and Kev, and we know they will take good care of him.