tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222001412024-03-23T18:02:39.956+00:00The Mermaid SanctuaryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.comBlogger312125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-33168500222098421212014-01-01T15:17:00.000+00:002014-01-01T15:19:42.883+00:00Happy New Year!Well what a state on the weather for a New Year's Day! It's hammering down with rain and that put paid to my lovely long New Year's Day walk with Max, but it wasn't to be, he's not a happy chappie in the rain so there's no way he's up for a stroll with me today.<br>
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And here she is all finished .....<br>
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I'm so thrilled with her! Just 9 weeks from start to finish - whoo hoo!!<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-90364174275382524782013-10-04T15:51:00.000+00:002013-10-04T15:51:04.141+00:00Fame At LastGuess who's in this month's "You Dog" magazine?<br />
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Yep, Maxie Boy!! Can you see him?<br />
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Happy Chappie isn't he?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-8926258318864022022013-10-04T15:41:00.000+00:002013-10-04T15:41:18.615+00:00Catch upSometimes it's hard to find the time to write, but when I do and re-read all the posts, I'm always glad that I did.<br />
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I've been cross stitching rather than knitting lately (Bec's fault, blame her!) She kept nagging me to either finish one or start another - actually, it was "why don't you finish Sabrina?" but I think I got so bored with her, purely because she's so big that I thought if I didn't start one, I'd never cross stitch again, so I started Mirabilia's Peridot Fairy. So far I'm eight week's in and ready to "bling" her up.<br />
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There's a reason why I've chosen this one, not just because August is my birth month, but I also want to do June (my daughter and mum's month) and April (my grandmother's). Can you imagine all three of them together? Stunning!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-25651898172457739932013-08-19T17:04:00.002+00:002013-08-19T17:04:11.631+00:00Swansea ValeAnother glorious walk today, this time a little nearer to home although we did have to take the car. Gary knew about this marshy land and thought it a good place for him to explore.<br />
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First of all, we walked in the long grass...<br />
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Oh hello, dad!<br />
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Thankfully buggerlegs didn't see it or he'd have been off like a er, rabbit up a whatsit...<br />
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Yum!!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-56879584970558325682013-06-23T19:06:00.000+00:002013-06-23T19:06:50.271+00:00WeatherI'm never spun out at how quickly the weather can change, but being caught out in it is just no fun, especially when you have a dog who hates the rain.<div>
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Suddenly, the heavens opened, and I have one very wet, unhappy doggy on the end of the lead....<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-50128760488413923512013-06-23T18:53:00.002+00:002013-06-23T18:53:49.955+00:0018Tomorrow my daughter turns 18, you know the cliche, where did the time go? Yep, it's been like that for me. I can't believe that she's 18.<br />
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She's finished school, started college, passed her driving test (first time), drives her own car and is training to be a nurse.<br />
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So, tomorrow she turns into an adult. Oh. My. God.<br />
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Where did the time go?<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-41955648413203078142013-04-12T16:42:00.000+00:002013-04-12T16:42:18.962+00:00Beach day!Today we took Max to the beach - he absolutely adored it...<br />
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We discovered two cats. Now we have a cat, and they both tolerate each other, but any other cat is game on for Max. You've seen pictures of him before wearing a harness - it's a police one so it's really sturdy and recommended for Staffys. Then tell me this: how did he slip out of that harness?<br />
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He flew across a street and into someone's garden after these two cats, thankfully there were a bunch of kids who helped me chase after him but obviously they wouldn't go near him as he was a strange dog (to them) but to be fair to the oldest one, once I grabbed him, I couldn't hold him and get the harness back on but she held on (she must about been around 10, bless her). Once he was safely back in harness, they all crowded around him and he just lapped it all up. Attention Seeker. I call him a Little Sod.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-35651591336978835952013-02-10T19:00:00.000+00:002013-02-10T19:00:26.047+00:00Four pairs!Well last month I managed to knit and complete four pairs of socks, yes, FOUR PAIRS!! I'm amazed. Do you know what I think it might be? I only log on once a day in the morning: I have to leave at a certain time for work and all my chores that I need to have done before then have to be done. Once I get home at night, my chores are done once more, cook, wash up, laundry etc., and then I sit down and knit. No logging back on, just uninterrupted knitting.<br />
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Now when I say, uninterrupted, you may think I sit and do nothing but knit, but oh no. I have a young dog remember? He tortures me to play fetch which I have to do, as I just can't resist his sweet little expectant look on his face (or the fact that he'll drop his toy on my yarn, or on my pattern, or in my lap, wherever it'll cause the most inconvenience really, but that's by the by.)<br />
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So this is the fourth pair of socks completed in January...<br />
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Darkus by Rachel Coopey<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-37369525318491709422013-01-25T19:05:00.001+00:002013-01-25T19:05:17.337+00:00Cranberry BiscottiI absolutely adore these socks made from leftover sock yarn, I think these may be my new addiction in sock knitting, I have so many leftovers that I can make these several times over in so many colour ways!<br />
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He's had a severe bout of diarrhoea and I mean severe. It was coming out of him like a fountain, literally.<br />
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We phoned the vet on Saturday night because his back legs wouldn't support him anymore.<br />
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Mr G stayed up all night with him and Max laid on top of him for warmth.<br />
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He had some cooked chicken and rice but the diarrhoea still wouldn't go, I had to get up with him a few times in the night and let him out and also wash his bedding.<br />
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It was time to take him to the vet.<br />
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a nasty bug was diagnosed and some treatment prescribed. Chicken is firmly on the menu and he's loving it! He gets it twice a day and I've introduced his dried food back in too. I've never seem him enjoy his food so much. He so much better now, back to his old self. Thank God, he had such a pull. <br />
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Max woke me up at 2.30 this morning, whimpering to go out. Okay, you can't leave him in distress, if he needs to go, then he needs to go.<br />
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Max woks me up yet again at 3.20 a.m. Not happy, but still, I saw to him again, whilst he was up the garden doing whatever it was he was doing, Jasper came for a visit (read: wailing his head off for some grub). Right both animals sorted, quick visit to the bathroom and back to bed.<br />
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I was so tired this morning I went back to sleep only to he woken up by Mr G telling me he was going. I always get up just after him to see to Max and get the coffee on.<br />
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Freezing this morning so Mr G told me there was black ice and to be careful. Okay.<br />
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Stubbed toe (on Max's discarded hoof treat) and a jammed finger in the cupboard door later, I was on my way to work.<br />
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A taxi driver opened his door as I was going past making me swerve (and swear like a sailor due to the black ice) I was finally on the main road. Now I haven't posted that I've only just had the car back from the garage because Mr G pranged the back end of it last week, and my lovely friend Sue has been giving me a lift in and takes a different route in, so I thought, give it a go. If I did....<br />
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I had another car door open on me. This time a frantic woman begging for help as her sister was fitting in her car. I pulled over and asked her what I could do. Another driver phoned an ambulance so I just reassured her whilst she was giving all the details to control. As I looked up, who did I see parking up? My lovely friend. <br />
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She couldn't work out what had happened. She thought a car had run into the back of me, mine was in front of the lady parked up but the other helper was parked in front of me, guess what? She only thought that I had a prang on the front too!!!! Good grief!!! One prang is enough!! Duw, she has some imagination that one!!<br />
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Anyhow all seemed well when I left, I hope she's okay and doing well now.<br />
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Oh and another thing, I was queuing at the cashpoint and a woman picked up a silver 5p off the floor, gave it to me and said "Silver. For luck."<br />
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I nearly hit her...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-20594677038061265942013-01-06T20:24:00.001+00:002013-01-06T20:27:15.258+00:00Love, love, love!This has to be one of my most favourite photos of Max I've ever taken ...<br />
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"Whatcha doin'?"<br />
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What really wound me up was that the second sock was looking very similar to the first in the way the colours were blending. Then I came to a knot. A knit in a skein is bad enough but the fact that it was joined at a totally different point really peeved me, even more reason to dislike them.<br />
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Apparently they soften up with washing. We'll see when I try that at the weekend, must find my sock blockers first though ...<br />
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So, Winterscape are on the needles. I'm knitting in in Noro Silk Garden, a wonderful nubbly yarn I picked up from The Black Sheep.<br />
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I would never have chosen it myself, but it was part of a yarn of the month club I was in at the time.<br />
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It's called Night Mail by The Yarn Yarn, base yarn is clan. The pattern is Grumperina's Jaywalker which is a free download on Ravelry and extremely well written.<br />
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Anyhoo, happily putting it all away and an uneasy feeling came over me. Where was the turkey crown? Went through all the bags. Nothing.<br />
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Ok, don't panic. I phoned Customer Services who asked how much it cost. I hope they weren't refunding me! Not at all. I think it was a security question. She rang the driver and it wasn't on his van so she phoned the store for a replacement. I was dreading her telling me that they were sold out. Well you know how it is. But to be fair, they had one the same size. Phew. The store manager phoned me to apologise and sent another driver out straight away with another.<br />
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Panic over, crisis diverted... But I didn't get my nuts, sigh...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22200141.post-32990828370521789922012-12-22T14:39:00.001+00:002012-12-22T14:39:32.152+00:00Just walking the dog...This is Max's favourite thing to do whilst out walking ...<br />
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When he'd finished chewing up the end, he decided to carry it home with him. It's so big he kept bashing the back of my legs with it, the sod....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15772273139209430057noreply@blogger.com0