also father's day

obviously turning 40 has addled my brain already - spot the deliberate mistake in the previous few posts....

by the way I am finding it quite hard to do posts without any feedback - come on peoples, let me know what you think, any feedback out there?

fathers day

in my absence today (I was away down to Edinburgh to see an old, old friend over from Australia with her daughter, and how can it be that after 15 years people are exactly the same? What a great time I had!)... Murphy excelled and reaped the consequences. Emily, back from work and putting together a sandwich to keep body and soul together before she went off to the stables, made the mistake of leaving it on the table while she went off to get changed. Richard says the scream she let out when she came back to see him (Murphy) snaffle half of it would have woken the dead!

He got thrown outside and the dogflap shut with a bang behind him!

(you'll be glad to know order has been restored and the parties have now made up)

PS prizes for the caption contest, I'll start... "did I hear the w-a-l-k word?"

morning!

happy days! beautiful morning, I was out with the dog without my coat this morning for the first time in about a year! And even then I was too hot. Murphy was having a great time - he shot off up the road, through about 3 gardens (you're in a difficult position there, you don't want to shout at him at 7.30am) then shot off into another one - I ran up the road after him and he came running back out - with a pigeon in his mouth! eeek!

But before you run away with the idea that he was having a productive morning, I must tell you that I heard the Gizzy bell in the distance - hmmm, I suspect he stole her prize. I implored him to "put it down Murphy!" - and he did!! It shook itself and zigzagged off down the road. He probably saved its life (temporarily?)

So there went dinner....

the year moveth on...

June - I can't believe it! Almost half the year gone and what happened to May? I blinked and it just disappeared! Gizzy is still moulting all over everywhere but seems to have abandoned her last month's haunts (the stair corners and sofa at the back) for beds. She's ignoring the cat contraption again. Murphy is back on his duvet - occasionally. Nick's back from Uni for the summer so he's hopeful of getting some more walks during the day (Murphy, not Nick!)

We took him down to pick up Nick and his laundry and he got a 10 minute run on the beach - it was too cold and windy for more! Richard saved him some bacon and scrambled egg from brunch and as usual he ate the paper napkin as well, I honestly don't know if he notices the difference!