Dosed Up on Dosa

That's what the humans are. This evening TJam deserted the animals and went for a human extravaganza at Pin and Huddersfield Town's House. The lovely Wry Sprite was there too. They had dosa made by the lady from the Farmers' Market, sitting around a beautifully laid (lain?) table with sparkling wit and repartee flowing. TJam didn't actually want to come home, but she had to or we would have eaten the place.

You can see from those smily faces that us dogs missed out on a real treat.

Cousin

We have a new cousin.

Fliptop has a puppy living in her house. Forever! Meet Loki!

I hope he doesn't chase me.
If he chases Chips, he will have a harsh lesson coming his way...

What's that you say? So very very cute?

TJam can't wait to meet him.

Guinea Pigs

Today, TJam went to visit Piglet and Puppy (and she left us dogs at home. You will see why in a minute...)

Yes, TJam has been cuddling some other animals too. Tastey little animals that are not for dogs!

Here, TJam cuddled Caramel, while Piglet wrestled with Bernard, who was trying to make a quick getaway towards the vegetable plate!

TJam went to Piglet's school and saw her Victorian project and Storms and Shipwrecks. Puppy went on his scooter, but he went too fast down the hill and had to use his bottom for a brake!

TJam had a lovely day.

Swindle

I have been using this trampoline for 2 days now and I haven't lost a pound!

Deja Vu

We all had a surprise this morning. More snow!

The dogs got to see some beautiful scenery. Of course it was wasted on them.

Luckily, Chips was wearing her new coat, which TJam is very pleased with cos it doesn't fall off. I think Chips was pretty glad of it too.

Me? Well, this is what I think of snow.
It's for dogs.

Influences

Today TJam has been doing some scanning. She has been considering her doggy influences. In the 70s people did not go with Deed not Breed or anything similar. They kept kids in cages and let the dogs run free. It was safer that way. You can never trust a child. When the kids were wise and trustworthy enough, they were allowed out.

Were dogs more long suffering in those days? I don't know. Old Hans certainly got his fair share of cuddles. His least favourite game was reinacting Belle and Sebastian, when he had to pretend to rescue TJam (Sebastian) from an avalanche. If it had been real life, TJam would have frozen to death. Hans was not big on role play.

In the 80s Remus made his entrance. It took him a while to grow into his ears and this pose did influence some of my own, later work. I call it "Sand on Nose."

Remus:

Me:

So it would seem, TJam's earlier influences affected her choice of dog companions, and that these dogs' work has rubbed off on us. The bin raiding and junk eating we made up for ourselves and we would be proud to pass it on to any future generations.

Technicality

It was the floor that broke the plate, and not me. I just happened to push it off the counter.

I plead not guilty on a technicality Your Honour.

From the Wardrobe

One minute I was in a wardrobe, the next....

... so since we were out in the field, so to speak...

... we decided to make an expedition of it, B1B2 led the way...

...although B2 did end up with a frozen beard.

That's a true explorer's beard.

Back to Work

This morning was more of the same, but no less beautiful...

Pin came to the rescue today. TJam's car doors were frozen shut so Pin gave TJam a lift to work. At least there was a space on the carpark today, although no one stuck to the designated spaces.

TJam reporting for duty.
"Ready for some INTENSE work boss!"

Snow Day

Yay!!

Chips is now up to her chest and can just about walk along. I say she needs a coat. Ha ha ha.

TJam was snowed in. We were glad.

Reminiscing

Today is the day that TJam allows herself a brief moment of unadulterated reminiscing. Every year she has to spell check that word...

Anyway, today, TJam is going to remember a comedy incident involving a certain female tan crossbreed as featured in the following, youthful photo of TJam and Bamgee.

One day, Jump and TJam were staying in London Town with TJam's mum, whom we shall give the Spy Name of "Brazil". Brazil was looking forward to her lunch: two pieces of mackerel on toast and a cup of tea.

When the food portion was put on the table, lunch looked a lot like this:

Jump was nowhere to be seen.

Brazil turned around to pick up her cup of tea, and when she turned back to eat her lunch, lunch looked a lot like this:
Jump was still nowhere in sight. Not a crumb on the table or floor. The only explanation was that a whole piece of makerel on toast had magically and completely disappeared.

A true professional and dog after my own heart. Ladies and gentlemen, I doff my cap to Jump the Dog.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to Everyone!

love from me, Chips and Carlsberg

Index of 2009

And so, here is our summary of 2009.

In January, it was foggy and we ate a load of stuff.

In February, TJam showed us how to blog from our mobile phone, the humans went to Chinese New Year celebrations and we had a bit of snow.

In March, I hurt my leg again, we enjoyed Alexander the Meerkat and TJam didn't manage to cook a jacket potato in the dishwasher. We all went to visit TJam's family in London Town.

In April, TJam made easter cakes and Carlsberg may or may not have licked them, we climbed up a lovely hill, Bready did some reading and Chips discovered there IS a limit to how much she can eat.

In May, Chips ate semoline, TJam became an auntie, we all went to the beach with Bamgee before she went off on her travels and we didn't see Winnie the Pooh when we went to meet Piglet and Puppy. I was fine with a horse, Xaja had his birthday, I subluxated my elbow and TJam started work on the garden. Carlsberg braved the flynet.

In June, Chips got quality time with TJam while I rested my leg, TJam fed Silky's cats and Carlsberg catwatched the cat next door. We went for a walk and got lost and we saw some interesting clouds. Tjam made some photography discoveries, what not to do, and we went up a hill with Pin and Huddersfield Town.

In July, Chips ate the cat food, we made the home alone videos and went to TJam's nan's 90th birthday celebrations. We walked with Nursie and Bready and I injured my chest.

In August, we went to the agricultural show and TJam fed next door's cat (no catastrophies!)

September was quiet, with a few photos here and there and we got a 2 person (or dog) tent. Work started on our porch and TJam messed with the cement.

In October, we went to Baby Chilled's naming ceremony. TJam went to Tajikistan to see Bamgee, but she never put her photos on here. They are on her Facebook page, where humans go, but no animals. Here is one photo,
so you know I am not making it up.

In November, Carlsberg started exploring bed options around the home.

In December, we got Christmassy and had snow, and went to TJam's family for some great gifts!

To end the year, as we were walking, we saw an owl in a tree. It was only about 2m away from TJam's head and didn't move as we stopped and looked. TJam had a go at taking a photo on her phone in the dusk, which you might be able to make out (it's right in the middle). It was a "had to be there" moment and truely breathtaking.


- Beanz, signing out and wishing you a happy 2010!

Christmas Presents

I would just like to say a big thank you to Father Christmas and friends for all our fab presents. This present went down well with me, although TJam is not so impressed!

Luckily we also got this present: (click on it to make it big and see what it does. Thank you B1B2 for this!). Of course it will never work...

We are also looking forward to using this:

We'll let you know what we get up to with it in 2010!

Brr

We had a great Christmas and I will tell you about our brilliant presents soon. We are home from our travels and still have snow and a frozen pond! Brr!

Embarrassing Christmas Side Effect

by Carlsberg

Why would TJam be scrubbing the mini trampoline with disinfectant on Christmas Eve?

Oh, because I ate a bit of that long, tempting, irresistable piece of Christmas tree decoration and did not realise that what goes in must come out. Only, long pieces of glittery gold make a poo pretty hard to disengage. Friction, gravity and a 5 metre sprint from the sand pit, through the catflap to the mini trampoline were what was required to remove the begger.

As they (almost) say in the Young Ones: Dirty Trampoline, Clean Bottom!

Merry Christmas everyone. Don't eat any decorations. At least not when anyone's looking

Love Carlsberg
Signing Out for 2009!

Jingle Bells

We are in training. A certain fat and jolly gentleman asked if we were busy tonight as he's a couple of reindeer down. Just trying out our formation running in the snow...

Don't Believe Your Eyes

- by Chips

Although it may look like it, that is NOT the cat's bowl under my bottom. It is... um... it's a... um... yellow.... um... not cat bowl, which I did not steal from the desk and take to my bed to clean.

Snowy Adventure

-by Carlsberg

Today, the humans (TJam, Nerospal and B1B2) and dogs went for a walk in the snow. TJam fell over twice in the first 5 minutes. The dogs were pretty sure footed...

but the humans made more of a meal of it...

B1B2 and her dog, B2, had a quick cup of tea at the cafe...

Then everyone set off to the pinetum. The dogs usually go pretty wild there. They must be communing with the spirit world. You can see Beanz heading off to frolic...

They went to their special tree...

...before heading off in the blizzard, singing Christmas songs.

When they got home, Beanz went for a lie down in the garden...

... and I pounced on everything that moved. You will notice that photos of Chips are severely lacking by this point. She was in her warm bed...

...and now my favourite photo, in which I am bigger than Beanz!

Guilty Secret

I couldn't help myself.

Mystery Tracks

There have been some mysterious tracks in our lovely new snow...

...was it a triangular footed bird? rabbit? deer?...

... and it turned out it was the tracks of my tongue as I licked up the snow!

Yum yum

Truce

We are having a truce in the bed wars. The fire is on and there's only one place to be.

Getting in the Spirit

The weather has been getting colder, foggier and more Christmassy by the day...

... and when we went for our Saturday coffee, Nerospal's cappucino definitely had a festive feel about it...