Water calamity!

OK, own up!!  Who let Stella sniff the blue smarties?!?!  I took her for a walk yesterday and she was a complete lunatic.

As Demon had her friend to play with, Stella went postal with the water and got soaked.  She kept throwing herself in, which isn't as brave as it sounds, it only reaches her belly.  Having run out of things to fetch, she bounded up behind a teenager, who had rolled his trouser legs up to his knees...and rubbed herself across the back of them.  Poor lad nearly had a heart attack.  Worse was to come.

He picked up a stone, and, as his friend wandered off, went to throw it into the water.  Stella was watching the stone like a hawk.  Before she came into rescue she's obviously spent a lot of time playing with stones, as her teeth are broken and chipped.  Knowing exactly what she was about to do, I shouted NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! very loudly.  I looked up to see a teenager with a very stunned expression and his arm up in the air.

Me: Oh sorry, I'm not shouting at you, I'm shouting at her...she's waiting for you to throw it.

Teenager: Oh, I'll put it down then!

And with that he dropped it like...well, a hot stone now you come to mention it and off he went.  He perched on the side of the water and started splashing his feet in the water.  He's braver than me, I know what Stella smells like when she's been in there!  But as he sat there splashing the water around with his feet, a certain little girl high-tailed it towards him and threw herself into the water.  Exit stage right one teenager screaming in terror....

I called her off, and she came straight back.  After sniffing smelling salts for the shock, I tried to get her to come away from the poor, traumatised teenager.

But then...Stella spotted a floating log.  As it drifted towards her, hearing was set to OFF and nothing I said got through her ears, never mind brain.  As the log got to our side of the water, she stood in the shallows and tried to get it into her mouth.  Not even Stella's gob is that big (and that's words I never thought I'd utter) and she gave up.  It was then she realised that there were humans sitting on it.  The first one caught her attention, the second one confused her as they had no legs.  The third one really grabbed her attention as he was waving a stick around.  A stick that was soon in a tug of war between a very amused man and a very confused dog.

Me:  Stellaaaaaaaaaaaaa....

Stella: Mum! Mum! Did you see it? Did you see that great big giant log? And did you see that man playing with me with that stick?

Me:  No, Stella...........that's a C.A.N.O.E........and that stick is actually a P.A.D.D.L.E.....

Stella:  Ooopsie....

The man was taking the boys away from us, but soon realised that the swans were approaching and being aggressive.  Very slowly he did an eleventy million point turn and started heading back....towards a hyper German Shepherd bouncing like a lamb and shouting about how she wanted a go.....

We didn't go to the water today....