photohunt sturdy

My sturdy dog-walking boots, after a hard day’s tramping.

Photohunt Fluffy

Here’s baby dog, Minerva. Compared to her big brother Max,, she’s decidedly fluffy! Weimaraners don’t take a lot of grooming, with their ultra short coats, but Mini’s had to have several baths, and be blow-dried with a hair dryer afterwards. My friend Marleen was enjoying making her hair stand up in a Mohawk She’s starting [...]

Photohunt circular

I often walk Max in Hillsborough forest on a Saturday morning. I gain a real sense of calm by being amongst those magnificent tall trees which have stood there for hundreds of years. There’s always something to marvel at in nature. This pattern of moss on the side of a tree caught my eye. There [...]

Welcome Minerva

Well, on Saturday we collected our new addition – Minerva von Thunder (or Minnnie for short), a cute little cocker spaniel puppy. Her mum is black and white, and dad golden – she is mostly black with tan paws, chest and eyebrows. So far I find her really intelligent – I swear she has different [...]

Indefinable, that’s what hootoo are

Some disturbing news this week: as part of the BBC’s rationalisation (i.e. money-saving) of its online services, it is “disposing” of h2g2. It could have been worse – some sites were closed immediately, whereas this approach seems more akin to putting us in the animal rescue centre and hoping a new owner will fall in [...]

One week later

One week into the new house

In my dreams…

Tell you what I want, what I really really want!

Springwatch

Signs of spring.

Spawn-taneous

Max falls into a pond and finds some frogspawn.

Frog blog

I spotted this little fella yesterday while walking Max in our favourite spot, Drumkeeragh forest. He seemed quite friendly – Max hardly paid him attention, but I watched him for a few minutes before he hopped off and hid under some grass. We had a lovely walk: it really is our numero uno walkies destination, [...]