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This is from a day trip to Mersea Island with Sub-Evil Boy several weeks ago. While he was being contemplative in the surf, this cutie walked by with his human. The wonderful, expectant face is because said human is just<\/em> about to throw a stick into the surf to fetch, and this was obviously a very exciting prospect!<\/p>\n

Sub-Evil and Dori returned to Mersea during her wonderful visit with us last week. The tide was out, then, however, and Sub-Evil got mired in the heavy clay out past the sand, and very nearly lost a shoe. Happily Dori helped retrieve both Sub-Evil and his shoes, albeit bringing home rather a whole love of mud in the process :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is from a day trip to Mersea Island with Sub-Evil Boy several weeks ago. While he was being contemplative in the surf, this cutie walked by with his human. 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