Easter Sunday

We joined the many others who decided to go up the Mither Tap today - and it was a good decision! Even met Scott & Veronica with Poppy & Zoe at the top! Maddie was dissuaded from searching everyone who looked to have food on their person and we all had a lovely time!

Easter Disaster - national shortage of Cadburys Buttons Easter eggs!

Noooooo! I'm kinda pissed off at her now - couldn't find any Cadbury's Buttons eggs. Had to get a wee Creme Egg one but it's not really what I wanted.

Oh well. (sigh)

Happy Easter Maddie!

Maddie is reversing her usual trend (sugar first then a healthy backlash) - Thursday night she got into the vegetable basket again and made off with the carrots - again. This time she didn't eat them, though - she just took them out under her bush in the garden for a good old chew. (Richard wouldn't let me use them after that!)

Last night Richard got me an Easter egg (Cadbury's Buttons, my fave!) but left it on the table. Of course Maddie wants to join in the Easter fun - so this morning -

I'm off to the shops to buy myself another one!

Little Miss Perfect

Maddie came along with me on my trip to Glasgow yesterday and today and I'd just like to congratulate her on being the perfect guest! We had a couple of ball-throwing interludes  in the park (she loves chasing tennis balls) during which she ignored all other dogs and even dropped her ball when Sophie (young and boisterous chocolate lab) came bounding up - who then nabbed it and ran off with it (the owner brought it back). We went for a long walk round the streets this morning (well, to Susan & Ian's, there was a purpose to it) during which she didn't pull too badly on the lead and managed to be let off for a couple of rummages round open green areas and burns without finding a car to run in front of.

We left her on Saturday evening while we went to church and dinner and the house was intact when we returned. I left her this morning to go catch up with a friend and Dad's comment was "she didn't cry for four hours" - see Murphy? It is possible!

Overnight I kept her in my room in case she went a-wandering and she did get terribly excited and wake me up a few times by coming to the bed and pawing at my face (probably to make sure I was still there and in case I'd missed any daylight) but I managed to roll over and ignore her so she went off to lie down again (although what daylight there was at 3.30am who knows!) - however she remained quiet.

And finally we went to visit Elizabeth on the way home. Maddie headed off out the door into the garden, did a wee on the grass like a good girl then stood patiently at entirely the wrong door for a while until we noticed and invited her back in the right door! After which she drank some water in a most ladylike way and went to sleep on Elizabeth's feet.

Awwww!

I've discovered a new method

- of travelling! Cycling along at pace yesterday morning, with my handbag as usual, attached to the handlebars. Now because I swim every morning before work, I wear my costume and take my underwear with me - in said handbag.

Yesterday as I came off the railway line I happened to look down at my bag and lo and behold! - the shaking has shoogled the zip open and there was my bra - flapping way for all the world to see!

Eek! Emergency stop in the middle of the road and a quick fumble with the zip!

Somebody at work pointed out that depending on the size of the bra I could have gone paragliding - hmmm, there's a thought.

Aberdeen's best cat burglar strikes again!

Richard made meatballs on Saturday. He made the full recipe - twenty four meatballs - and stuck twelve in the freezer. Unfortunately he then headed off into the living room to put the TV on for the Grand National, leaving the twelve remaining meatballs unprotected....

Now, he swears he was only gone a minute, but when he got back he found....? Three meatballs! Three! Oh yes, and Maddie looking very pleased with herself. Oops!

So it was back to the freezer to take those other twelve back out again. Lesson? Don't wander off and leave that sort of thing at the edge of the counter - surely he should have known? you ask yourself. Well yes, I ask myself that too! Some things are fairly predictable!