RoooOAAARRRRRRR
Have had week from hell. No.1’s officially (after two months pretending it’s not) in relapse. Boy has lost the ability to fall asleep (11? Every night? Tired enough to fall asleep in class?). Jolly has decided that twice nightly visit to Mummy are perfectly acceptable. Pink’s had a cold and is whiny. BUT. After re-instigating the Pants To Be Proud of sticker chart (am thinking of applying for a patent, has worked like a charm for two children now) my girl now poo’s in the toilet. That’s a little slice of happy, anyway, yes? Tweet
You know you’re tired when…
… you sit bolt upright in bed at 3a.m. (having been asleep for at least… an hour…) and realise you haven’t taken your lenses out. Lie in bed for five minutes debating with self over sleeping-with-them-in-and-risking-blindness-from-evil-infections vs heaving-self-out-of-warm-soft-comfy-snuggly-cosy-luvely-duvet-wrapped-bed-to-remove-them. Going Blind finally outranked Feeling Tired, so you stagger off to the bathroom. Peer blearily in the mirror and poke a finger in your eye, none too carefully. Ow. Burnies. Owowow. Hurts. Lots. Maybe you took the lenses out after all. Yep, that’d be them, there, sitting all neat and tidy in their case. Feckers. Tweet
Pink and Blue – the romance continues
I expected No.1 to love Blue, to welcome her into the family the way he has all his siblings with love, tolerance, and making sure they have a healthy respect for his No.1 status. And so it was – though I hadn’t quite expected him to fall so in love with her so fast. But he spends long hours talking, training and playing, and is happy to take on the chores of feeding, cleaning up and walking her too. He is also quick to reprimand her, and has no qualms with putting her in her crate when she’s being a nuisance. I expected Boy to fall madly in love with her. It has his been never-ending wish for years on end to have a puppy, a friend in canine form to run jump and play with. But the reality of a puppy, the chewing, the unwanted energy, the...
Blue finally gets to meet The Big Outside – Win Green
(I know, I know, something other than puppy-posts soon, I promise. She’s a bit all-consuming at the moment!) So, finally, Blue has had her second injection and we can take her to meet the Big Outside. Where did we walk her for this landmark event? There was never any doubt – we didn’t even need to talk about it. Win Green. Oh, how we love that place! It’s not much – just a hill top. The highest hill top for miles, from which there is a 360º view of the chalk downlands surround the Cranborne Chase. Tis magic I tell you. The tip of the hill has a small clump of trees standing on a Bronze Age Barrow, always a very special place to stand and just… be still… and breathe…and listen. It’s the very first place my...
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