It’s your Tern

Having Tan here feels very strange, rather like having Griff back again. Not that Tan looks anything like our old boy but  her manner is very reminiscent. I was astounded last night when she came and flopped down in the bedroom with us when we were watching a film. She lay where Griff would lie. Tan …

A bit of self-indulgence

We spent yesterday afternoon in the garden,  firing up the barbecue for tea. Barbecues don’t happen very often here because barbecue weather does not come along unless there is a month without an R in it during a Blue Moon. This witnessed by the fact that yesterday we got out the last disposable BBQ from …

Didn’t we have some splendid times?

  It was great having you for a pal. We shall miss you. I am sorry your end was not easier.

Ménage à dix

HUGE post: dogs, cats, tears, laughter… and chooks! Lots of cute pictures

NaBloPoMo 5 – Big Bangs

Remember, remember, the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why Gunpowder Season
Should ever be forgot.

Christmas Picnic

Set of photographs of the dogs at the beach on Dec 25th, 2008. The deep/dark colours are due to my forgetting that I had a polariser fitted. In most cases, I don’t mind at all. There’s something deep and rich and lovely about these images – they remind me in some ways of oil paintings… like they already have the patina of age, somehow – just vague memories already.

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