No offence intended

Upon second thoughts (which came to me last night in bed) I'm not sure I did the right thing by adding the link to that post that was my last entry - it's a bit more serious than my previous posts all put together! I'm a Research Assistant at the moment, working on a project on police blogs and that's how I came across it - but it moved me when I read it and I wanted to put it up. I hasten to add while I've seen terrible scenes on TV (always a programme about the problem in English towns at the weekends, which isn't to say it doesn't happen in Scotland), I've never seen it that bad myself.. of course I'm never out when the clubs empty these days so not really a valuable witness on that front!

Anyway - I'm sorry if anyone read it and was offended, or surprised etc. I'll put a warning next time I jump off the heights of flippancy.

You want to be a hero?: It's not always a happy ending.........

I worry about all the kids out there who get legless on a Friday or a Saturday night in our towns and cities, the girls especially who think they should be able to do as they like without repercussions... well so they should but life's not like that, not at the moment. Read this - a police blog - anonymous but it sure rings true...


You want to be a hero?: It's not always a happy ending.........

She would've passed

What a good girl Maddie was at obedience class last night! She even did her "down-stay" for the required one minute TWICE without getting up! All those times practising it on their walks has paid off. Unfortunately the test itself isn't til next week, as it turns out, so I only hope we haven't peaked too soon...

If Murphy could talk...

This would totally be him...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw

Maddie glams up?

I THINK it's Maddie's Bronze Award test tonight (it might be next week - I've got confused - but we'll see) so I decided I really should try to get out the tangles in her ears. She wasnae happy about it so I had to do one ear yesterday and one today - but finally! She has lovely tangle-free ears! Let's hope it lasts, it wouldn't surprise me if she comes back from her lunchtime walk having dragged herself through a hedge backwards, forwards and upside down...

poor Richard?

so on a non dog and cat subject, we move to the long suffering hubby (well he thinks he's long suffering, I think he's grumpy, we'll agree to disagree on that). Sometimes he does have a hard time though and funnily enough always seems to not kick up a fuss just when I think he will...

Anyway, the poor soul had to fend for himself all weekend while I was killing myself at Guide camp - which meant he had to walk the dogs two or three times a day as well as feed and amuse himself. So I arrived back at 5.30pm on Sunday, hoping he won't expect me to either walk them or cook the meal - and he came up trumps! Had a meal all planned and had walked the terrible two. Nice husband!

So what thanks did he get? On Monday, when I should've been soothing his fevered brow (or at least feeding him with something cooked by my own fair hand), I discovered I had made an arrangement to meet a couple of friends, so Richard got back with the dogs after their evening walk and was handed a frozen pizza as I went out the door. Oops, bad wife!

No improvement today - I was out at a friend's this afternoon (I did work in the morning) so stopped in at Tescos to grab something microwaveable for tea tonight. Worse wife! Still he's had cooked meals every night for the last several months (I've been working my way through various cookbooks) so he can't really complain. I'm braced though...

thoughts

It's interesting - I'm a Research Assistant on a project looking at police blogging and I've been doing some preparatory reading before starting a literature review of the subject. I had no idea there could be so many different reasons for and types of blogging! It's really made me think why I do it and if I could do it better or differently.

I started the blog in 2007 as a way to share my Murphy stories, rather than trying to remember who I've told what, so I try to keep the posts strictly to dog and cat stories, but maybe that's really boring for people? I don't know as I never get any feedback - on the other hand that probably just means nobody's reading it. Clearly I'm doing something wrong! I would like to think I'm connecting with someone out there.

So I'm going to a) try to remember to add labels and b) try to add a bit more variety to the subject matter. Move over Murphy!