Tara:
Both Mum and Dad were off Work Stuffing today! So we did a Pack Walk! I LOVE Pack Walks! It woz ACE!!!
We went to a sniffy place called Thornton Abbey where Henry VIII visited and decided stuff. Whether it got knocked down, or not. It didn't get knocked down. Mum says. But then someone else knocked it down later.
And I mountained and explored. Even Cato enjoyed it.
We had to be carried through the Cow Field to get there. The ticket lady said the cows had baby
This is me having the wriggliest most elasticcy stretch.
it woz LOVELY
Mum says my tummy is utterly irresistible. So I wanted you to be irresisted too.
Tara:
It was AWFUL Aunties. I didn't want to show you my piccses, but Mum said I had to be brave and show you, cos it will prove how brave I am, and heroic and stuff. And it will show you all how extra specially beautiful I am when my piggies grow again.
So this is me with Bed Head on Monday morning, before we went to see nice Mrs Groomer
And this is me after my Spa Day, with my piggies All Gone. Mum and I woz very sad. Dad said he didn't know who the strange paw was w
Hello Aunties!
Here is me in my donut bed.
and washing my knickers. Cato never washes his knickers. Thats disgusting, isn’t it Aunties? Boys are disgusting.
I HATE Spa Days! Mum did tell us, but that doesn’t make it any better! I didn’t want to get out of bed this morning. Mum had to put my lead on first, and the drag me out! (Mum: actually Tara it was more like a gentle nudge)
So Mum abandoned us, like usual. And I had to have a stinky b**h. Cato woz all
Mum:
I know that lots of your do a proper groom. Table, set positions, lying on the side, different combs and brushes and stuff.
But that isn't how we roll.
We have a grooming table, which I love, but I only use it to do Tara's hair, and for face, foot, knicker and tail trims. The rest of the time grooming is a comfortable snugglefest on the sofa in the front room, while watching tv. One brush (pinbrush) and Wen revitalising leave in hair conditioner.
This is usually fanta
Tara:
We had MacDonalds burger! It was YUM! We were going to have sausages, but then it rained, and Mum said we would have to sit in the car and eat and wait to see if it stopped raining. I said I didn't mind the rain, but nobody ever listens to me. But the burger was LUSH. Although I didn't get much, and I was starving.
Then we went to Foxy Park and I splatted Cato. It was ACE!!! Burgers make me even more Ninja. So I should have them every day, shouldn't I, Aunties?
I had
Cato: Oh aunties, Mum is very down in the dumps. Her camera is dead.
you know how I don't like all the piccing, cos it is more important to focus on the sniffing. But Mum LOVES it. And she loves blogging you with her silly flowers. And you all seem to like them.
anyway, we got our sausage, with AuntieJane, and then we went down on the beach - and the camera died with the first pic!
Mum said a bad word!
Dad thinks it might be the black string thing that Tara isn't allow
Cato: So Dad is feeling better, and it was OK to leave him and see Auntie Jane. I had my bottom trimmed sprecially, and Tara had her sprout pinkified. And we went for breakfast.
Auntie was late, so we had to wait for a table, but it was good cos we got to sit in the shade.
Afterwards we had sausage, and walked back to the car with Auntie J and went to the park! It was fun, but hot. Mum says it will get cooler again tomorrow, but we may not walk in the middle of the day f
Sidney:
I have forgiven them. We had a nice snuggle on the big bed, and I purred like a... a... well, I purred a lot. Like a TIGER. Mainly on account of the ear and cheek rub that Mum does. And I didn't bite anyone. Sometimes, when I have had enough of being fussed, I bite hands and arms, to tell people to stop. Didn't need to this time.
And I kneaded the bedcovers, and my injured paw kneaded properly, for the first time since my War Wound happened. And my broken off claws were
Cato:
Hot hot hot. But the sausage breakfast woz nice. And seeing Auntie Jane woz nice too.
Foxy park woz very still and hot and sunny, and even Tara didn't bounce ALL that much.
although she did a bit. mainly in the shade!
This is my EntMoot snoozing in the sun.
and these are the knickerprickle grasses wot Mum uses treats to keep us out of.
Tara:
This is me squishing Cato. He was a bit floppy by this time. He
Mum: just to explain - today is Mother's Day in the UK.
Sidney:
Mum usually does stuff on Sundays, so she gets up nice and early, puts down food and opens window. Very satisfactory.
Until today.
This is at around 7 am
This is around half an hour later.
unfortunately, the Runt and the Brat are too stupid to realise how annoyed i am.
there was some nonsense with a card and some chocolates. I ignored it all for as long as i could, but had to l
Tara:
We had 2 walks today! 2! it was ACE. And we had BURGER! although only a tiny bit. And the woman in the shop said we were like living teddy bears. And I sat on AuntieJane in the park and was taller than a Viszla! it was FANTASTIC!!!
Mum said it was one of the best weekends she had ever had, and she has had lots of weekends, cos she is OLD!!!
Cato can tell you all the boring stuff. The detail. But LOOK at MY MUD!!! we haven't seen any forEVER, and then we found all t
Tara:
Auntie Jane couldn't meet us today. but it meant we could go for a big Pack Walk with Dad and Mum. And at least we got the sausages first this time!
This is me sitting waiting for my sausage. I have Bed Head, cos Dad rushed us out really early before Mum could do my hair. Mum says I still look cute though. I am sitting on the table bench. Hahaha! I hopped up when we were waiting for Dad to fetch his food, and no one told me to get down! lol.
This is when we got
Cato: Sorry Aunties, Mum has not been doing her Mum Duty today. She forgot the camera, used her phone, AND she rushed our walk so that she could have a hot chocolate!
It was a nice blue sky today, but really cold. We didn't want to have our jumpers put on, but maybe we should have. We walked all the way to the beach promenade, and then I didn't want to go down on the beach. Cos of Tara's beachy bouncing. And then Tara saw all the big dogs on the beach, and she didn't want to go d
Mum:
No walk today. Out with Auntie Jane for breakfast, as usual, but when we returned to the car, we had a flat tyre.
I pumped it up, dropped her home and then came home myself. If we are going to fight with the spare and organise a puncture repair, I would much rather be doing it from home than stuck in some park car park!
Anyway, the Hounds are sleeping off their sausage, and harumphing cos they were deprived a walk - can't do it now. Too hot on the pavements and then
Cato:
Auntie Jane for breakfast in the sausage cafe! Yay! Then stinky bum fox park. They spent AGES talking about work stuff. Yawn. Thought the walk was NEVER going to happen. But we got there in the end, and the sun had come out.
The bicycle man was there, in his flourourourorescent jacket, cycling round and round and nearly wobbling over onto us every time. And Fat Bruno was there. Except he has been on a diet and is now nearly Slim Bruno. Tara lay down for him.
More ca
Cato: Sausage breakfast, then a really boring walk along the seafront. We have to wait til the end of September before we get the beach back so we walked by the stinky flowers, wot Mum had to photo for you. Yawn, and then back along the path bit.
It woz a bit hot, and I got thirsty. Sausage makes you thirsty anyway, doesn't it? And Tara climbed on everything, of course.
Mum: Today was a completely different routine. There was a charity fun run (10k) so lots of roads we
SUNDAY
Cato:
We were supposed to see Auntie Jane today for breakfast (sausages, yum!) and a walk in the little park. But she isn’t feeling well, so we didn’t. And it was raining. So we had a boring morning sleeping instead. Then it rained all afternoon. Then it got dark. And then it was bedtime. We didn’t do anything interesting AT ALL, ALL DAY. I think Mum was bored too. She decided that my Tinkle needed a trim. I don’t like that. But I can wee without spraying my fe
Tara: Oh Aunties! today has been terrible!
We went out with Mum this morning for breakfast sausages. And AuntieJane, who we LOVELOVELOVE
So that woz fun.
But then it turned out that AuntieJAne has hurt her knee and couldn't walk! So Mum and us took her out to LOOK at the sea. And the beach. And all the sniffs we could see from the car but not sniff! It was awful. AND it rained! And rained.
And Mum and Auntie sat and talked and talked and talked, and Cato and I had to
Cato:
We found the donkeys! Yay!
and the Pier!
and we got down onto the beach and had a lovely sniff and explore under the pier again. And checked on all the stuff that needed checking, and widdled on all the stuff that needed widdling on.
Someone has stolen all the old fishing nets And someone else has moved in lotsandlotsandlots of sand! It is higher under the pier and comes higher up the ramps. Halfway up Mum's waist higher. That's a LOT!
Mum
Cato:
Mum didn't take us out to breakfast today with Auntie Jane!!! We were left at home!!! We woz very miserable, and Tara cried at the door.
Mum says it was cos she thought it was going to rain, and she wanted to go to a weird indoor breakfast place that we have never been to before, that doesn't let dogs in. But that is terrible. It can't be a nice place if it doesn't let dogs in, can it?
Then they came and picked us up, smelling of bacon and sausages and stuff, and we all
Cato:
down to cafe for breakfast sausage, only it was very windy and cold. It was warm at the house, and cold at the cafe. We woz both shivering, even tho Mum got our bed out of the car for us. Mum says we should have our coats kept in the car for next time, just in case.
remember that pic of our car with the netting put up by dad?
well this is the netting put up by Mum. Much safer. Tara hasn't wriggled through since!
not many pics today cos Mum and Aunty Jane were
Cato:
Remember last week when Mum and AuntieJane got all cross and bothered about some flowerbed? Well this time Mum took some photos to show you. From all the flapping and squeaking and stuff they were very upset. But no one lifted me up to show me, so I didn't see.
But there was lots of sniffage around the wall of the raised bed, so I didn't really mind. And some recycling bins that smell fascinating. Mum says there may be rats and foxes that check out the bins at night. Isn'
Tara:
Aunty Jane and Mum were telling us about The Easter Bunny. So we looked and looked and looked on our walk in Foxy Park today. But we didn't find him. And we didn't find his eggs, either. So I practiced my Bunny Hops and Bench Hops and Spring Bulb Trampling as much as I could, just in case we see him later and he wants to play. Practice makes perfect, Mum says.
Oh, and I LIKE the new bed! I get a bedroom all to myself, and there were toys and chews and everything all r
Cato: no walk! and it wozn't even raining! But we did do stuff with Mum. We aren't usually allowed in the understairs cupboard. It is all sniffy in there. Really interesting! There are boxes. And tools. And the sniffy floor mop stuff. And we got behind the bin. We never get behind the bin!
we helped Mum work on our new beds too. We got sawdust on us when she used the buzzy saw. We walked through the sawdust and trampled it EVERYWHERE. We stood next to the crates so she could
