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About June
Yeah, we know. It’s not quite the end of the Month, but it is the Last Friday of the month, and so we must put pen to paper and to complete the “Last Word”.
Where has the time gone. Mum still thinks the Time Bandits are knocking around the house in a plentiful amount. We don’t mind ‘cos time is time and what will be will be and all that stuff!
We were busy at the beginning of the month. Us three Scotties went camping with Mum and Dad and the families of their three best friends (with kids …… yeah, noisy right!).
We arrived a day before and stayed a day longer than the two nights the rest of them had booked for. We can’t describe how noisy it was for us, we’re so used to camping with bigger people. The smaller people are a bit too energetic for us. We were told that we had been very good boys throughout – hey! what did they expect.
We camped at a place called The Pudding Room. They had a big field in which several tents, trailer tents, caravans and motorhomes could pitch. Its a pretty basic site: No electricity, only two toilets, both containing a shower – lengthy queues there then, beside a rather noisy road, but, the owner was very welcoming and friendly and overall the four families thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
We’ve not done too much more, other than our usual “morning walks”. Haven’t been groomed (properly) yet as Mum left the grooming bag in Doris, and she’s have some more extended work done to her. So we’re a bit tangled, but hey! do we care – not one little bit. Mum does though. I’m sure we’re in for a torture session soon.
SWAT was launched – funny hey! – but we keep on seeing and hearing such wonderful sights and sounds that we must share with you. So keep an eye out for our SWAT-ting.
We’ve got our own Twitter account, so if you fancy following us on there, then look out for our name : @sparhawkscottie we’ve never had so much fun barking, muttering, yapping and whining using only 140 characters. We’ve taught Mum a lot – but she’s still got more to learn.
Just heard that our next “Horder” gathering is nearing completion, we’ll post something later on that; we think it’s in August, but we weren’t listening too well.
Gus has just got told off for helping the birds finish off some cookies Mum put out for them. He’s a right scavenger. Just the other day a young man offered him a crisp (which he, for Gus, politely grabbed!) and since then any male coming towards us Gus thinks has food for him!
We’ll sign off for now. If you “paw” through our blog, you’ll get an idea of what we’ve done during June.
So for now Rooodles to you all.
About May
Well here we are again, the Last Friday in May. It doesn’t seem 5 minutes that we were writing about what happened to us in April. Where does the time go! Mum thinks we have Time Bandits living in the house stealing the time from us – we just think she’s not organised enough. However we mustn’t grumble as we do get out on our regular morning walks.
As you know Gus the scottie dog, was poorly again but after a couple of visits to the Vets he has rallied and is back to his usual self. This is a good thing because he’s the one that makes all the sweet noises in the morning to get Mum out of bed to feed us! If it wasn’t for Gus Mum would probably still be in bed!
Dad bought some baby Koi carp the other week and so a lot of time has been spent with our noses looking into the pond. We can’t understand what we are looking for. However, the fish food smells “smelly” and Gus is really keen to have a “taster” of this. Mum is quite careful to keep it away from him.
The other day Dad caught Gus “spying”. He was sitting in one room, but had his head craned around the door jamb looking into another room. Dad thought this was funny and decided to call Gus “Double 0 pie, licensed to smackerell” Well most of you won’t know what that means, but we’ll tell you. Gus the Scottie Dog is a food monster! Gus just loves to eat. Dad just loves reading about Winnie the Pooh, who also is a food monster. Pooh is always looking at ways of obtaining food, and this is exactly what Gus, our adorable Scottie Dog does.
We didn’t get away camping in Lady Doris this month. We have that pleasure awaiting us in June!
We did get groomed though. Despite the struggles we always put up when being groomed I must say we Scottie Dogs do look the business when its all over. Mum bought a new brush to brush our scottie dog coats with. It works particularly well on me, Finlay Scottie Dog, as I have quite a flyaway coat.
The weather seemed to be a bit more typical – dull, cloudy, rainy, but lets hope that this is all done with and June will start with a summery flourish which will last till Christmas!
Talking about Christmas, Mum has started organising the Scottie Christmas Party for STECS. So make a note of the date, or check out the new Scottie Chat website http://www.scottiechat.wordpress.com or the official STECS site http://www.stecs.net The links can be found on our blogsite.
Won’t bore you anymore with things. There’s a nice long weekend looming. Dad’s bought a bridge to go over our stream so that Mum can sit on it whilst feeding the fish. Wonder whether we’ll be allowed to sit on it as well. Not sure what Bobby will think – he doesn’t like stuff like that – scaredy cat!
Arroooo to you all – until the next time – woof, woof
About April
It me, Bobby, my turn to write!!!!! Not started off too well, what with Gus being poorly. Thank heavens that’s all done with. Been on a few glorious walks on our local patch. Mum and Dad getting ready to take us to Scotland – not so sure that it’ll be as warm up there. Anyway, few more days to go before that. No doubt we’ll all get tortured (!!!) by being groomed so that we look good on our arrival.
Dad jet washed the ground-sheet on Sunday – what a noise – I wish he’d gone to see his Mum for Mother’s Day – but he forgot – silly dad.
Dad told Mum to measure the bed in the over cab of Lady Doris (our motorhome) so that they can have a mattress pad to ease their slumber during the night – mum not happy as this was dad’s job. Mum hopes that she’s got the right measurements – and so do we, otherwise they’ll both be grumpy, Mum in particular as Dad’s a little more laid back, like take it or leave it. That’s ok when at home, but in Scotland – I don’t think so!
Went to visit our “niece” on Wednesday to celebrated, belatedly, her 10th Birthday. She’s now the first entry in the “X Clan”. Met another Scottie called William – why are they all called William! – lovely chap, very grey, but not that “old age” grey – he was probably born grey. Had lovely walk – all 6 of us, weather was beautiful, in fact we Elkin Sparhawks had two walks that day – faaaanntaaaaastic! We should have birthdays everyday.
Weekend arrived and Dad got “busy” cleaning some cupboards in Lady Doris, ready for our trip to Scotland next week. We just sat in the garden with mum all afternoon – bit boring, but better than been groomed, which is what I heard her say would happy today – hopefully she’s forgotten. I don’t hold much hope out because she always messes with our hair before we go away – just because she has her’s done, doesn’t mean we need to!
Sunday 10th April: what another beautiful day. I sat with Mum watching the lady Blackbird build a nest (same place as last year so it’s only a bit of refurbishment works required!) The Wrens are debating whether to use the nest they’ve been working on, so they get a bit noisy in the morning and towards dusk. The Starlings – what a noisy bunch. They’ve decided they like picking the leaves from the dead pampas grass in the front to build their nest in the roof eaves. There’s pampas grass leaves hanging out of our wall – Dad’s not too pleased. We have so far avoided being groomed – yippee!
We all kept a low profile over the next few days as Mum prepared Lady Doris for our trip to Callander in Scotland. We are to set off on Tuesday evening, so it’s all go!
Tuesday morning Dad set off for London – yeah, he’s going to London first, then driving all the way back to Nottingham, having tea then we are all setting off later that night! Phew don’t know how he’s going to cope. Anyway, Dad got back, we all had tea and then got ready to go at about 10pm!
You can read all about Callander and our Scottish Holiday separately as I think Mum or someone else will be writing that post.
Anyway, we are now back home having spent 11 days in sunny Scotland, give or take a few days to get there and get back. Mum and Dad spent Saturday pottering around the garden at home, we again all kept a low profile ‘cos we didn’t want to be brushed – we are so tangled I just know she’s going to get us – and so we had a very quite couple of days.
Tuesday 26th April: been caught!! We’ve all had a “session” on the grooming table. Unfortunately I realised it wasn’t long enough and so I’m sure there’s going to be more tampering with before the end of the month. Had our usual walk this morning and I’ve heard that it’s only a 3-day working week – so we hope to get plenty of walks and stuff in before the weekends done with.
Wednesday 27th April: Fortunately Mum had “one of those days” again. Her year has not been good: firstly she went to the wrong funeral in January; then to the wrong hospital clinic in February and had to go back in March; then in April just before we went to Callander, she arranged to have Sainsbury’s deliver our food on Wednesday – no small problem there I hear you say, well yes it is, because Dad told her we were travelling to Scotland on the Tuesday and so no one would be here to receive the food, and we would have no food on holiday – fortunately Sainsbury’s to the rescue and the delivery was made on the Tuesday. So what was wrong with today? Well, Sainsbury’s were due to deliver between 3pm & 4pm, and Mum had her day planned: we would go walking in the morning, and have haircuts in the afternoon, however Mum needed to check when her hair appointment was due so on the way to the walk, we called in at the salon, only to find that Mum’s hair appointment was today at 2:30pm! Well, we raced home and rang Sainsbury’s in a panic, however, the wonderful Customer Care Team sorted Mum out and re-arranged the delivery time – Well Done Sainsbury’s.
Soooooo . . . . . . . no we didn’t get our hair cut, but it doesn’t mean she’s forgotten that! She may be forgetting other things, but I’m certain she won’t forget us! Anyway, Thursday is busy, and I know she’ll be watching the Royal Wedding on Friday, so I think we are all safe until the weekend!
Royal Wedding Day and Mum (and Dad!) sat in front of telly for a few hours. Very moving. We paced around a bit, but didn’t interfere too much as there’s plenty of garden for us to roam around in. Kept a low profile simply because we didn’t want to be groomed. Think we’ve been let off for this week!
As this is the “Last Friday” in April (yeah I know there’s one more day) I’m going to call it a day, look for some other photos for you and sign off.
Hope you’ve all had as good an April as we’ve had.
Arrrooooooo to you all.
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