Ready For Interstellar Hitchhiking

In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams declared that the towel is “the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have“. That may be true for humans, but Beagles need something a littleĀ  more compact than a regular towel, like.. a tea towel!

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This particular tea towel was obtained through another of Biggles’ new abilities: climbing on to the kitchen table. Until recently Biggles could only jump to grab things off the table and the kitchen work surfaces, and consequently items sitting too far from the edge were out of his reach. Now all that has changed; he’s suddenly realized that he can use chairs and other furniture as a step to help reach his goal. It’s a revelation for the Biggly boy – a bit like the Daleks suddenly being able to go up stairs.

Unfortunately any big plans he had for the tea towel were scuppered by big sis Beanie, who alerted me with her signature “Dad he’s got something again!” bark. To be honest that bark of hers probably means something quite different, like “Hey I want that! Gimme!” but regardless, when I hear it I know that the Bigglet has got something.

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In this case I arrived a little too late to save the tea towel from a severe shredding, so I let him taunt Beanie with it for a bit. After all there’s no point getting a thing if you can’t wave it in front of your sister’s face!

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