hoursold, originally uploaded by waveneyavenue. I would say that every person who reads this blog is already aware that I have had my baby. Just in case there is anyone out there who does not know – I had little Martha Amy on 19 September. We have spent the last 4 weeks getting to know [...]
Mentally I am the same size I was before I grew my bump. Physically I cannot fit through the same tight gaps – especially between car wing mirrors. According to my mother my arse looks bigger. I guess it’s a balance thing, my arse grows to balance out the big belly so that I don’t [...]
Well, if you haven’t been enjoying the weather what have you been doing? Yesterday I was at a training course in Craigavon. I don’t normally mingle with others in my field of work so I found it strangely reassuring that everyone, everywhere is exactly the same. The same old stories of being passed over for [...]
Going away on holiday has many positive points, not least of which is the greeting that the dogs gave us on our return. Both waggled with excitement from their noses to the tips of their tails. Gracie’s full greeting takes up to an hour and includes much waggling, jumping up, climbing onto our shoulders; where [...]
I started the bank holiday weekend a little early by taking the afternoon off work on Friday. I used the time to cook the ‘no knead bread’ I had started the night before and to go for a photowalk in Top Wood with Dave and the dogs. Gracie was in fine posing form and Maya [...]
Paddy Plays Tugger, originally uploaded by ZMB. Yesterday Nelly, Dave and I went for a walk in Portglenone Forest with the dogs (Gracie, Maya, Bonnie and Paddy). The dogs had a beezer time and Nelly and Dave nearly poisoned themselves eating Lords and Ladies. Dave had picked up a leaf he thought was sorrel and [...]
So, me, Dave and the dogs were sitting chatting about how the dogs would have to take a cut in their pocket money due to the credit crunch. The dogs were keen to help in any way they could and suggested that perhaps they could go out to work in order to bring in a [...]
Just to prove that I am not a Christmas grouch, I give you Gracie and Maya frolicking in the winter snow in their Christmas hats. No dogs were harmed in any way in the making of this photo. Gracie hopes that she will get a Big Bone from Santa Paws and Maya wants Sausages and [...]
I know that in my last post I said that I would love to have Gracie in work to keep me calm and that I would keep her in my drawer. Well… today I had both dogs in work after having locked myself out of the house at lunchtime, following the dogs lunchtime walk. Naturally, [...]
3 today! Or tomorrow, sometimes it’s hard to remember!
Gracie is lying on the sofa giving lambdoodle (a long limbed toy lamb) a thorough chewing, while Maya whines and barks from the floor. Occasionally, one of lambdoodle’s long fleecy limbs strays to the edge and Maya grabs hold of it, but Gracie is still the stronger of the two. Lambdoodle has a squeak which [...]
Yesterday I listened to Spirtiualized – Songs in A&E 5 times. Once while visiting the Fairhill Market, once while doing the rounds of the local charity shops (coincidentally managing to meet a heap of my family – Granny in a car on Mill Street, then Granny again with Auntie T on Church Street, Mum in [...]
It is almost inevitable that at some point a hard drive will die. This is why we are told to back-up our files, make multiple copies of them, make discs and keep them in fireproof boxes. So far, I’ve been lucky. Any lost files have been due to my own carelessness and accidental deletion. Then [...]
I am typing one-handed as a small dog is lying, softly snoring, on my lap with her head resting on my left wrist. She can quite often be found on my lap when I am at the computer. She is also very fond of lap lying while I am knitting. This week I won the [...]
Silky Ear Originally uploaded by ZMB. Gracie is 2 today and has decided to celebrate her birthday by having a lie-in. Normally she spends time downstairs with me before retiring to bed for the morning. I give her milk, then she goes outside and barks like a crazy thing at imaginary cats. 2 of our [...]
