Hats Off

I do like the occasional dig, and do consider myself somewhat of a connaisseur. So I would like to take my hat off to this gutsy little fellow enthusiast.

Me and Curiosity

Curiosity may (hopefully) not kill me...

... but for a moment there I thought it had made me go blind.

German Shepherd Envy

Not that I'm jealous or anything, but on our holiday, TJam has been drooling over our neighbour, an 18 month old GSD called Shadow.

Sensing that I might need to up the anti and put my best Shepherd foot forward, I braved the icy ocean...

but I'm afraid my non GSD side may have peeked out in reaction to my first above-the-elbow wave...

darn collie genes.

- by Beanz the fearless.

Cat Maths

Lazy gardener who doesn't cut grass + sunny day = my favourite. Purr ...

Toaster

The humans had an executive breakfast while we were all camping.

The problem came when Bamgee tried to fold the camping toaster flat again ...

Hey!

Wait a minute! What is all this stuff in my field of long grass? And where has my grass gone?
On the way home we saw a dead bat on the pavement. Chips and I sniffed it respectfully and we didn't eat it.

Morning Dip

We are having a refreshing start to the day.
- by Ol' Seadog Beanz

Genes

Beanz got the "sitting in the rain" genes and I consider myself the brains of the outfit.

Signage

Mmm my favourite sign...

Couldn't Care Less

I title this piece of work "Couldn't Care Less About Nature". Just because TJam has a new camera, doesn't mean I have to appreciate it.

TJam says to say, if you click on the picture, it is an amazing piece of nature.

Bothered?

My Weekend

I have mostly been laying around on this lovely weekend. Although I did spend Friday night in the porch. Curiosity got the better of me as the dogs came in from their last walk of the evening, I popped into the porch but TJam didn't see me. She thought it was quiet during the night but only came looking for me on Saturday morning. I made her feel suitably guilty and she still owes me one.

I made up for it by sunning myself all weekend.

The humans deserted me on Saturday night to go out for dinner with Unliz, Bready and Coach. They had a lovely curry.

TJam is buzzing now because out on her walk today, she saw none other than David Bellamy. He was doing a tour and talk about local woodland. The dogs went and only slightly disgraced her by eating something unmentionable and then half a cheesecake that someone had dropped. A minor blip really. Look, here is DAVID BELLAMY talking to the people.

Settee Rules

This is my fur and I don't know how it got on the settee because I am not allowed on there and I would never break the rules.

Beach

This weekend, we went to the beach. I took advantage of the litter situation to bag myself a nice little plastic bottle to play with and chase and chew up...

TJam tried to get Beanz to pose for the camera, but Beanz was in snogging mood. Look at that tongue (and try not to imagine where it has been...)

We found a cool park to go in to have our lunch.

Then we walked back along the beach, where Bamgee admired this kind of kite surfing craze thing that my humans are too old and uncool to know anything about...

here is a close up in case you can help us out on the name...

and here are some British donkeys for our American and overseas friends who may not have seen such a thing:

We didn't chase the donkeys. They have enough stress with carrying children up and down the beach all day, without me and Beanz making things worse for them.

Clever Friend

B2 is our particularly clever friend ...

Walk

Phones and Washing Machines II

TJam and GGirl have been messing around with washing machines at work. This is something that you should never do. You should not put mobile phones in, even if it is only pretend. What would happen if it suddenly filled with water?

Comfy Pillow

The title sums it up nicely.

It Wasn't Me

TJam's good friend's son had a birthday and TJam was a bit late in getting his present sorted, much less posted. But she did get something and did wrap it, and things were looking very positive.

TJam went out for an evening, and when she came home, she saw this on the floor:

I can't quite believe it, but as I lay innocently on my bed, TJam seemed to get the idea into her head that I had something to do with that mess on the floor...

and then I realised, I had been set up!

... and someone seems to think I was somehow responsible for this destruction!

Testing

TJam has been up to lots of things but been too busy to blog! Honestly, what it that all about?!

One thing that happened was that Bamgee came home and she made TJam a birthday breakfast. Ginger jam on toast with after dinner mints debout. Yum. I was not allowed any.

TJam is also testing a photo taken on her new phone, which will not be going through the washing machine.

Muppet

Sometimes TJam can be a bit of a muppet. This is photographic proof if ever it were needed.

Dietary Indiscretion

This is the face of a dog who has committee a dietary indiscretion. Apparently. I don't know what all the fuss is about. My dodgy tummy is long gone!

Quiet

Well, it's all been busy around here, so we've been quiet on the blogging front. Firstly, Brazil and Boy Wonder, TJam's mum and dad, came to stay for a week. The Boy Wonder has done a marvellous job on the back of our house and it looks better than new.

In the meantime, if you haven't heard from TJam, it's because this is the phone that TJam put through the washing machine.

To its credit, the phone does still turn on, but the screen doesn't work and if you try and phone out, a woman's voice says that the number is unavailable. Luckily, this has happened before TJam asked for a new phone for her birthday. Let's hope it doesn't happen again. Doubly lucky, TJam still has FlipTop's old phone, so she is using that.

We loved having Brazil and Boy Wonder here. I enjoyed walking on Boy Wonder during the night and keeping him awake.

Unfortunately, Chips caught a nasty dog-bug and had a very poorly tummy. Every hour. In the end she had to go for some injections to heal her. This week, Beanz has picked the bug up. TJam has been sleeping on the settee, and with Brazil and Boy Wonder gone, I have had the bed to myself. Although it is a little lonely up here...

Grand Old Duke of York

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the Grand Old Duke of York
She had ten thousand dogs men

She marched them up to the top of the hill

And she marched them down again

And when they were up they were up

And when they were down they were down
And when they were only half way up

They were neither up

Nor down (ok, so we ran out of "down" pictures).

Sad Bumbags

We are sad to report that we stumbled upon a bumbag in the woods that had committed suicide.

Catching Up

It has been such a busy Easter, we have not had time to blog. Imagine! Life getting in the way of blogging! The CHEEK!

Firstly, we went of a walk with Echo. He is pushing 40kg now but in this picture he was in the low 30s). That is about 4 stone for those on imperial and 56lb for our American friends :)

Then we went down to stay with TJam's parents, Brazil and - hmmm, need to think of a spy name for Boy Wonder. ah, that can be his spy name.

It had been raining so much round there that our usual path was a stream. I loved it but the Boy Wonder had to go through the brambles to stay dry.

Next we met up with TJam's old friend who we will call Astra. She brought her dog, Dylan, and we had a grand old time, walking in the woods. The humans chatted and chatted, catching up on 20 years, so us dogs could just get on with being dogs. Bliss.

Then we met up with Piglet and Puppy (who you may remember from last year when we went looking for Winnie the Poo). They have grown up a lot and are a lot of fun to play with. They are pretty good tree climbers too.

When all that walking and socialising was done, and a bit more walking and some other socialising, and the humans had eaten a Chinese takeaway and we had had some of the leftovers (yum yum yum), Fliptop washed our van for us, and we came home. Thank you Fliptop!

What a couple of weeks we have had!

Be Warned

TJam better put plenty of newspaper down tonight. That bag was full when TJam went ok. It was the biggest bag of nuts and raisins you can buy. I don't know what TJam will have for her snack tomorrow. That's not my problem.