Day 100

It was Queen Vicky's Jubilee in 1897. There were great celebrations all over Spottyland. The Queen herself was forced to sit on a shockingly bare legged throne with her faithful whippet Mr Brown for 51/2 hours watching her processing people, and all without a single visit to her new deluxe flushing water closet. She was not in the slightest bit amused and couldn't wait to get back to her knitting on the Isle of Wight. 

Day 55

It was a slightly different story when the real Odysseus came home. Penelope was somewhat annoyed. Not only was he twenty years late for Sunday lunch but she was totally fed up with her tapestry and she crowned him with it. Not quite the Hero's welcome he was expecting. 

The choir performance

Of course the choir performance was really good. The audience loved it, Samantha was delighted and Meep was OK as long as she held little Bunny's paw all the way through. Spotty was a bit worried about his bed linen though, as several animals appeared to be wearing costumes made out of his best sheets. 

Last choir rehearsal

Last rehearsal before the concert and poor Samantha was in despair. They were all singing with great gusto but quite what they were singing was difficult to discern. The only ones paying any attention to her were Alan the snail and Spit (the spider). The concert would be tomorrow. 

Spotty's mother Fizz

Lady Xinthia Audrey Carmichael McSpot, Fizz to her friends. Spotty wiped a tear from his eye and for an awful moment Stripey worried that something awful had happened. But he explained that Spotto had been his childhood dog and he missed him.