Short walk for an evening

Huh.

Mali and I are just back from a pretty short evening walk. Admittedly, we had two much longer walks earlier in the day (at 7am we had the world to ourselves), but we'd barely crossed Marlborough before the dog went on strike, and although the pavement ice was plenty accommodating enough to drag the dog around the Avenues on his bottom, I'm not sure that it would have been hugely dignified... for either of us.

He was happy enough to come back home, and is now curled up on his the chair, so it's not like he's champing at the bit to be out again. We'll have another walk later on, but it's a bit of an anticlimax to get all togged up for the event, only to wend our way home ¾ of an hour early.