Dozer,its been a tumultuous year.Whats your take on COVID and how its affected your life in 2020?

What is that, a new snack?

I dont recall getting any.

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Its that world-devastating-virus, the reason your mum has been at home with you 99% of this year.

I thought that was just because she wanted to hang with me.

I really was not complaining that she didnt travel overseas this year.

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Im fascinated by this job you do Official Taste Tester.What are your key responsibilities?

What an interesting job!

Do you have any formal qualifications?

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And do you consider yourself a high performer employee?

She has also praised me for the speed at which I do my job ie.

eating the food I am sampling.

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Your mum cooks a LOT.

Do you get to taste test a lot?

Not as much as I am willing to do, thats for sure.

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I feel like my mum is suppressing my ability to do my job to the fullest of my abilities.

Im not sure what you mean.

Can you expand on this?

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For example, she makes aroast beef.I am the RecipeTin Eats Official Taste Tester.

My job is to TASTE IT.

Yet, I get nothing more than a tiny sliver.

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Well Dozer, word on the grapevine is that you think EVERYTHING tastes good…

Tabloid lies!

I have averysophisticated palette.

Low point of 2020?

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The Mystery Tummy Pain of 2020.

Im so lucky my mum got me to the emergency hospital so quickly.

They thought it was something scary when they started doing tests on me.

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It turned out to be….well, just gastro.

Even the vet thought I was like DYING of something nasty!

I even turned down roast chicken.

Dozer unhappy about salad marathon

Everybody knows thats my all time favourite food!

Plus, they shaved me to do scans.

My privates were exposed for all the world to see.

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My mum had to use the Modesty Flowers on my photos for weeks!!

High point of 2020?

Came home to a warm shower, snoozed in the sun to dry off.

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And when was this Perfect Day?

And the day before.

Wait, and the day before that, and the day before that…..

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So basically you mean every day is a Perfect Day.That is Life of Dozer!!

What would you say your greatest asset is?

Ive been known to make grown men give up an entire drumstick using just my looks.

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And finally, I think its fitting to finish with this question: Best food memory of 2020?

Then she dropped it.

#Karma

Ha ha!

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You certainly seem to live a charmed life Dozer!

Thank you for taking the time to chat to me.

We look forward to seeing what 2021 holds for Life of Dozer!

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Happy New Year everyone!

Usually, Id see out a year with a post filled with party foods to celebrate New Years Eve.

But given this year will be (very!)

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quiet for many of us, I thought Id do something a little different.

Hopefully it gave you a bit of a laugh!

Im sure Im not alone in saying that I wont miss 2020.

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Weve got more challenges ahead in 2021, but surely things can only go one way UP!

Heres to better times ahead!

Keep smiling, stay safe, and sending big (virtual) hugs to you all!

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