Newshound Ady & Flo www.sunlive.co.nz

Hey Sunners – what a stunner of a week it has been. I hope you have all been getting out and enjoying the sunshine. When the weather is this fine, you've got to make the most of it – and by that I mean getting up bright and early! 5am does it for me. Last weekend Saturday morning arrived and I awoke with all engines roaring.

The boss was away and left me with Aunty Abby. Problem is, Aunty Abby is a sleeper – I hear through the dog-vine she sometimes sleeps until 12pm at the weekend.
Well that wasn't happening on my watch. So at 5am I made the executive decision that it was time to rise – there was plenty of eating, playing, and more eating to be done! I scurried down the hall to be accosted by barrier number one: the bedroom door. No biggie, I thought, I just scratched that wooden blockade to my heart's content. But not even that could awake my sleeping sitter. Here's a key life lessons pooches: when scratching fails, bark. Bark until that door opens.
And open it did.
A sleepy Aunty Abby staggered back into her bed and pulled up the covers. She didn't look ready for playing, or eating. So I jumped up on the bed and tackled barrier number two: the ignore.
It's pretty hard to ignore a gorgeous specimen like myself, but in the odd case it happens, a good lick of the face usually does it…Nope, nothing. Aunty Abby's one tough cookie to crack.
Scratching, barking, bed jumping and licking – and the subtle sound of snores could still be heard.
I had no choice but to admit defeat. If you can't beat 'em – you know!
We eventually got up at 10am. Aunty Abby said it was a compromise. The only thing she compromised was a morning full of Frisbee! But we did get out in the sun afterwards.
There was so much playing, that I found myself in need of a wee nap in the afternoon.
Did you get out in the sun? Send me your photos. Email corrie@thesun.co.nz

- Flo