This always makes me Bark Out Loud. This is the stream quite close to home. But I always make sure I grab a drink …. a long drink from this stream. I do this on purpose ‘cos Mama is usually desperate for a tiddle herself by this time and on the odd occasion she’s had to stand very very still until the feeling has passed!

This is Kelpie. Sadly she passed away in 2008 at the young age of 9yrs and 4months of chronic renal failure. But, she lived life to the full. There was never a day she wouldn’t try and steal some sort of food.

Here she is, during one of our pit-stops, helping to clean up a cup of tomato soup! Nothing stopped her ….. only the inevitable.

A well deserved “pit stop” for a delightful slurp from our walking bowl.