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Charlie's Easter

A Naughty Girl Who Often Made Us Laugh!

By a.a.gallagherPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Charlie's Easter
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Charlie’s Chocolate Easter

Our beautiful dog Charlie just loved and adored chocolate. She could smell it and despite my best efforts to hide it from her and the children, she would ferret it out and demolish it in minutes flat. It didn't matter how or where I chose to hide it, no chocolate was ever safe from her slavering, chocolate -loving jaws.

In essence, I had organised an Easter Egg Hunt in our back garden for Easter Sunday morning - all the "cousins" were coming to our house to take part in the hunt and the children were very excited because the "Big Bun.." was hopping over and hopefully he was going to leave something pretty special for each and every one of them.

The tension was building or indeed had been building for quite some time, as were the pros and cons of the big bunny actually knowing which address to go to and where to leave those yummy eggs as against him going off schedule, subsequently getting lost and never finding our house. All aspects of the children's behaviour were also coming in for some heavy discussion.

It was a time for fun and naturally, some good-natured ribbing was going on between the various fathers and their children - Dads can't help themselves it seems, and always like to take advantage to have a little tease should a golden opportunity arise.

Well Easter Saturday evening had finally arrived and the eggs had to be hidden before the little ones got up at dawn to go looking - so my older son and I hid about twenty medium sized chocolate eggs in what we thought were really good spots! In the vegetable patch, under the pumpkin plant, in the arbour at the back of the garden (no one ever goes there!) amongst the plants under the garden seat and so went the list of really good hidey holes.

Fast forward to about 6.00am Easter Sunday morning and our resident ridgeback needs to go outside for her early constitutional - Charlie needed to water the grass - so out she went, to return very happily after I called her in about twenty minutes later. Fact is it did strike me at the time that she was smiling - something she had been quite well known for whenever she had hatched and carried out some evil plan!

At last, the much anticipated time for the Easter Egg Hunt finally arrived and with it the cousins, who were all mainly aged around 10 years of age. The noisy search was on. The back door nearly came off its hinges as they trooped out to the garden but instead of the joyful voices of happy campers all we heard was a great outcry of disappointment because what they did not find was - eggs - but where those eggs should have been, there were now lots and lots of coloured chocolate papers - her remainders of the day.

There may have one or two undiscovered eggs overlooked by our wonder dog Charlie in her twenty minute romp but basically, she had been in her own chocolatey doggy heaven - again!

How stupid of me to forget her predilection for chocolate and additionally to not remember that in her unsupervised twenty minute frolic it would have been a doddle for her, via her highly developed olfactory capacities, to find and eat 90% of the eggs left by the "Big Bun" for the delight of our family and visiting children! How naughty was our chocolate-eating Charlie?

After the upset and the cries of disappointment the children were delighted to find that between their various aunts, uncles and family friends they did not miss out on their chocolate egg bounty although it was decided that the ‘big bun” would bypass this particular back garden in the future.

However, a very happy Charlie really did enjoy her early morning scrumptious romp that particular Easter Sunday. I swear she was smiling again...

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a.a.gallagher

Thank you for reading my words and for following me. I am a collector of stories. I also write to try and explain life's happenings to myself. I write poems about the environment, climate change plus fun rhymes aimed at young kids.

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