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This morning our short boring walk that is all Joy is allowed at the moment was made much more exciting by the second spotting of the gorgeous Kier! Unfortunately I didn't have my phone with me, so again no photo. This afternoon the same walk and there he was again! This time I was better...

A beautiful morning so Joy and I set off to walk to Hebden Bridge, thinking that we might go on from there to Hardcastle Craggs. Unfortunately we didn't get very far. About 20 minutes into the walk she went rummaging in a bush and emerged with a large gash to her left hind paw. I took one look...

To Wallow or not to Wallow? That is the question.

Only a somewhat tenuous link to a Labrador here, but still a tale worth telling: Many years ago, when Trevor and I were first together he told me about a washing machine fire that he was called out to. The father of the family was a massive Serbian man who thought the fire was his wife's fault...

Joy and I were enjoying the first of the ripe blackberries this morning, eating them straight from the bush. As we meandered and munched I found my thoughts unaccountably turning to gin!:shock: I thought that if I started some blackberry gin off now it would be very nice indeed in time for...

Just catching up with the local news. According to Dogs' Trust on average five dogs a week were stolen in Yorkshire last year. Just awful. GGJ is rarely out of my sight but I will be even more vigilant now.

It's @Boogie's birthday today! Happy Birthday Mags! Hope you have a lovely day! Love and wags from GGJ and me.:partyhat::cancan::dug::celebrate::gift::gift::cake::cheers::happyfeet:

As our latest adventure, which didn't go quite as planned to say the least, comes to an end and we are Homeward Bound ( cue music) I have remembered that it is was two years ago today that little puppy Joy left her home in Barnsley and came to join us in Sowerby Bridge, her Forever Home. Happy...

Much of the time, particularly when it's just Joy and me, I talk to her in a variety of silly voices and I doubt that I'm alone in this. Recently I have been noticing that she often seems to respond more to the tone of my voice than to the actual words I use. Quite often I will say to her...

Today it is wet in Hucknall. Really wet! It looks like there should be about a two hour break in the rain, during which Joy and I can go out and do stuff in the garden. In the meantime we're confined to quarters and both of us but particularly Joy, bored. She's lying down with that despairing...

Joy has spent the day with a friend of mine and her dog today. This was because I was having some work done on the house. The workmen were due to arrive at 9am and I wasn't sure how long it would take, then I had a hairdressing appointment at 2pm and I wasn't certain that I'd be able to fit...

That's all I can say really, it worked and well done all! Tee hee, we can be sneaky when we want to though!:happy::clap:

Mags has started the thread 'A place to come when we are feeling down' , which I applaud and think is quite essential and brilliant. I would like to add 'A place to come to say 'Thankyou'. My evening out last night just left me feeling sad. Tonight I have stayed in with GGJ, eaten nice food...

GGJ is two today! On Good Friday! How very apt! She's fast asleep in bed at the moment, but has a lovely day ahead of her, with walks, pub lunch, treats and presents and two of her favourite people staying. Thankyou little Joy, for being sweet and brave and a GoodGirl and exactly the dog I...

Tomorrow afternoon I have an appointment with a solicitor to make some changes to my will, due to my change in circumstances. It has occurred to me that I really want to have something in there about what I want to happen to any dog that might be in my care. I initially thought that I would say...

This is what happens when you live with a dog and nothing else as your constant companion, most of your conversations are with fellow dog owners and you spend a fair chunk of each day on forums such as this: As I was having my post-walk cup of tea thisafternoon a takeaway menu for a recently...

Something isn't right with little Joy thismorning. She woke me up at the usual time for her breakfast and ate it, she's been into the garden and had a wee and a poo but she didn't come to help me with my breakfast and she clearly doesn't want to go for a walk. She's waggy and licky but not in...

Little Joy and I are off down to Norwich on Monday to stay with my lovely friend Liz for a few days. I'm really looking forward to it,particularly as Joy will be seeing the sea for the first time. We've been having some more practice train journeys this week and she's been doing pretty well...

OK, late evening post, but I've just watched the BBC News and there's the first female jockey to win some big horse race or other and that would be lovely and laudable, but she was hitting her horse. How can this be even approaching OK? I don't know much about horses, they're a bit big for me...

On March the 25th little Joy and I will be travelling down to Norwich to stay with a friend in Oulton Broad for a few days. We're planning to do some walking and I was just wondering if there's anyone in the area who'd like a bit of a doggy get together.:tail::pull::dug: