Fireman Friends

This morning I have made some new friends - Fireman! The Owner got up this morning when it was still dark. Why, was a matter of some mystery to me at first as today is a Sunday but then I realised when, with his second mug of tea, he settled down to watch the very fast and noisy cars drive all the way back to where they first came from. I worry as it is just too early for The Owner and he will betired by the end of the day. After the race was finished and all the shouting at the screen had subsided he begins to fidget. This always means trouble of one form or another and this morning was no exception. Eventually his fidgeting had reached a kind of crescendo and he jumps up and goes out to the kitchen and puts the coffee on and several rashers of bacon under the grill. Grabbing the morning paper he flops back into the settee that I am allowed on to await the smell of bacon grilling gently. Well that smell came and went as I noticed the paper slip from his grasp and fall gently to the floor. I said it was going to be too early for him didn't I? Well I wasn't about to disturb him, I was comfortable where I was! After a while the smell of grilling bacon had been replaced by thick smoke billowing from under the grill, then a kind of pop as the flames started. I found that if I kept my head down low the smoke wasn't too bad and I could snooze on. Eventually The Owner aroused from his snoozing and became very disorientated when he stood up as the familiar surroundings of the dining room disappeared from his view when his head disappeared from my view in the smoke above me. I don't know how Fireman and his friends knew about it but as The Owner burst forth from the cottage front door on his hands and knees making far too much of a scene in my opinion, Fireman stood there with his hose pipe at the ready. His hosepipe was much bigger than The Owners and he didn't manage to squirt me with it, I like him! I like him all the more because he had a Bonio in his pocket for me, have I mentioned that I like Bonio's? In recognition of the Bonio I only wee'd up one of the wheels of the fire engine. The Owner is now looking very sorry for himself as he cleans up the mess in the kitchen. I did say it was too early for him didn't I?