Biscuits

Tobia: "Now they are eating again. As far as I can smell, it's really a delicious but after the tall one moved in no more tidbits tableside. <sigh> I can’t help getting a tad nostalgic about the good old days, when it was just my master and me”

Peggy: “Don’t go in there, you know they’ll kick you out. Do like me: go in there when they are not around.”

Tobia: “And then they come downstairs and you find yourself in a pickle.”

Peggy: “Well, then I take my scolding and that’s it. I don’t sit around sulking for hours like someone else.”

Elections

Tobia: "Have you heard the good news? My master let out a cry when he heard about the elections in Milan, Naples and Trieste. Center-right had lost all! I hope that this means the beginning of the end."

Peggy: "Well, if they did give the vote to dogs, I would of course vote Lega Nord. Let's keep Italy Italian! Or rather, let us keep Padania Italian. I hate to say it but for once I agree with you but also with the women of Italy and with mr Bossi. We have done our duty and we cannot tolerate the behavior of the Dear Leader of PDL."

More rain

Tobia: "I knew something was brewing!"

Peggy: "Sure, sure... but I bet you thought that it was the tea!"

(The music is from the Channel4 "Brideshead Revisited")

Concentration

Tobia: "I don't know what is wrong today, I can't concentrate. I keep drifting, thinking of nothing and to boot I have a great need for caresses."

Peggy: "A willy-nilly if there ever was one, a bit of rain and wind and off you go. Concentrate??? It is that one track mind of yours that needs fixing. Well, I I hadn't really noticed your problems, it is so difficult to see the difference - whether you are concentrating or just staring off in the void!

Friends

Peggy: "Rita's here, Rita's here! Oh dear oh dear oh dear, how are you, what kind of lotion did you put on your legs this morning, where have you been, do you have something edible in that bag oh dear oh dear oh dear, I've been missing you, a lot, really a lot, a big lot! Oh dear oh dear oh dear."

Tobia: "Peggy, really! Let the poor soul alone for a moment, you are really being a nuisance, you know."

Peggy: "Well, who is it that can't see a female without getting excited, and not just females I could add!"

Tobia: "At least I go about it with a bit of style, not dancing around like a fly in a bottle."

Hot

Tobia: "I really must say that this heat is rather too much. And it is only May, I can just imagine what July and August will be like."

Peggy: "Nobody asks you to run around digging holes and barking at lizards! Those things you can do in the morning or late afternoon but not in the middle of the day. 'Mad dogs and Englishmen...' - in this case it is "Mad English Setters"! And just because the weather is hot now doesn't mean that it is going to be hot until September. Anyway, why worry about July, who knows what'll happen anyway. The important thing is to get through the day without too much trouble, having the food and water, you need and perhaps a few caresses...!"

Work load

Tobia: “What is ailing you these days? You keep close to the tall one all the time and when he’s not there you stay glued to my master. It almost seems like you are not feeling well. But then, once we are outside, you keep arguing with the neighbors or barks at anything that might be an intruder.”

Peggy: “I don’t know what is happening, I sense something – agitation, stress, preoccupations – and my instinct tells me that I should stay close to protect in case something happens. You keep talking about your past, your genes but I know that in the mix of my DNA there are both genes of sheep dogs and I need to know that everything is calm, that there are no enemies around and that the people, I protect, are calm.”

Tobia: “I think you are overdoing it just a tad. I mean going into the bathroom with them seems hardly necessary.”

Peggy: "Look who's talking! Who is the one sitting outside the cabin when his master is taking a shower?"