Bean considers...

...that it is probably time for me to stir my stumps, get out of bed and give her some breakfast.

Just in case her beseeching eyes aren't persuasive enough, her right elbow is jabbing into my tummy. It is a special canine torture method, guaranteed 100% effective.

And all because I failed to notice that it was International Day of the Dog yesterday.

As I tried to point out to her in my defence, every day is the Day of the Dog here.

I got up and made her breakfast...