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When I met you you said,

what I'm looking for ideally is a pug with, I think it was a blind pug you are.

A one-eyed pug.

Well, these ones have got quite roomy eyes eyes I think it's supposed to say. I've got quite roomy

eyes I think maybe that's why I like them. This week on Walking the Dog I went for a stroll with a ridiculously talented, actor, comedian, and writer Diane Morgan.

Diane is longing to get a dog.

Specifically, she said, a one-eyed pug.

I know. It was quite a challenge to Russell that up at the last minute,

but I found to the next best thing, two pugs with two pairs of fully working eyes,

belonging to my best friends Jane and Jonathan.

We took the pugs, Piglet and Impe, up to Highgate's Waterloo Park.

It was actually pelting down with rain.

But Diane not only rocks and anoract beautifully,

she's also one of those people who just manages to

bathe you in sunshine. So was it raining? I hadn't noticed. We chatted about her

dogs growing up in Bolton, her job in a chip shop, and a warming factory, the acting break that she got given by Peter

Kay before her career really took off via her comic creation Philomena Kunk in Charlie

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