Monthly Archives: November 2025

Diego on a long walk

A four-panel Peanuts comic strip. Panel 1: Charlie Brown sits on a couch next to Snoopy and asks, "How would you like to go for a walk, Snoopy?" Panel 2: Snoopy excitedly jumps up and Charlie says, "Ha! I knew you would!" Panel 3: Charlie Brown and Snoopy stand outside as Charlie reflects, "All dogs like to go for walks..." while Snoopy dances excitedly. Panel 4: Charlie is pushing Snoopy along in a buggy as he says, "This isn't exactly what I had in mind..."

We have an 11-year-old chihuahua and while he enjoys going for walks, he’s happiest when it’s a short walk. Actually, he’s happiest when he’s cuddled up next to us in a blanket, but we all need exercise.

A black and white chihuahua with a grey muzzle sits in a buggy.
Diego in Dún Laoghaire

When it’s a longer walk, we bring his buggy and he sits in it, looking around, happy to be with us and king of all he observes from his high vantage point.

When our previous dog, Oscar, got too old to walk much we did the same for him, but he had to make do with a child’s stroller. We didn’t know you could get doggy buggies back then!

A shih tzu in a child's buggy on a steep country road.
Oscar on Cape Clear Island

In my own world

Dramatic action shot of goalkeeper in blue jersey diving horizontally through air with arms outstretched attempting to save shot during local football match, with player number 8 in white and black visible in foreground and crowd of spectators including children in red and white jerseys watching from behind goal net at community football pitch with yellow corrugated wall and wheelchair sign visible in background.

Sometimes I feel bad that I have no idea that Ireland are playing a match, or when I see all the threads on the Ireland Reddit and it’s the first I even hear we were playing Portugal.

But then I remember I have my own hobbies and obsessions they won’t know a thing about.

My wife was told by a friend that she’d never meet a man who wasn’t interested in sport. I guess she did.

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