Month June 2014

Milly has added the outdoor tables to her race track and here she is demonstrating that she has got her skip back. She was a little unsettled by Bobbins, however she is back to her normal skippy self now. Here’s…

Schnukem died in her sleep last night. We suspect she had a tumor inside, however because of her shape we couldn’t see it. Certainly there was no clue that anything was wrong until we noticed her walking stiffly yesterday. She…

Bobbins is settling in with ease. There was a flurry of interest in her from the others, but that soon dispelled. It was only Milly who seemed affected by Bobbins. Ideally we wouldn’t have bought another animal in so soon,…

Introducing Bobbins, she is a 10 week old pup. She is blind and her eyes are deformed so we think they will probably have to be removed. One eye is under formed and the other is over formed, I don’t…

We’ve just come back from the vet with Alfie where he has been x-rayed so the vet could check his lungs. We were surprised to find that he has a pellet lodged in his chest from where he was shot…

We definitely have his and her yorkies at the moment. Millie is my dog and comes running down the hall to see me after classes, and Alfie is wholeheartedly Ian’s dog (at least he is Ian’s chair’s yorkie, as this…

Although Ian tells me that England could still go on to play in more matches. He explained it to me at length, however I blanked out after about 10 minutes. The village does still have representatives of  one team left…

It was very quiet last night, not a beeping horn or firework to be heard….

Listening to the news about passports last week I was able to give Ian the full benefit of one of my ‘I just don’t understand how these things come as a surprise’ tirades, which Ian was delighted to note that…

Apparently the best crumpets that I’ve ever made, in no small part because they actually look like crumpets. Hopefully these will go some way to offsetting the fact that Kate’s rose cut ruby is en-route from India right now.