Archie has a birthday!

It was Archie's birthday yesterday - 10 years old!

After brekky with a few blueberries as an extra treat the celebrations started in earnest!

A bit wet out so we got dressed up in our coats to go out.

The birthday walk.

As it was Archie's birthday he was allowed to decide which way to go.

Made a nice change from the Madwoman's usual high-handed

"I'm in charge so we're going this way" attitude.

 

Birthday blueberry muffin!

The Madwoman actually got up early enough to

make a batch!

Nom nom nom ...

Hasn't anyone ever told you it's rude to stare while

we're eating?

Opening my present!

 

There IS something in here, isn't there?

 

Got it!

A squeaky new squeaky tennis ball!

Just what I wanted!

 

Test driving the new ball.

Got to make sure it works properly ...

 

Birthday dinner.

With turkey of course.

 

Party games!

The Madwoman got out the Spinny game, filling the holes

with bits of turkey.

 

About to take a nap.

While keeping a close eye on my new ball.

Don't want the Madwoman pinching it and

wrapping it up again for Christmas instead of buying something new.

You may laugh, but it happened once before ...

 

Brambling

Yes, we know, we're late posting again.

Well we do have other things to do, you know, 

apart from keeping you all amused.

Anyway, this week we went brambling.

We're pretty good at it and can usually clear all the blackberries

up to the heights of our noses, and the Madwoman picks the ones

we can't quite reach for us.

But this year there are hardly any to be found.

The few there are, are puny little things, barely worth the careful

and delicate manouevring necessary to avoid getting

prickly bits in our schnozzles.

So this is a picture of us being forlorn.

Looks like we'll just have to make do with raspberries and blueberries

off the Madwoman's allotment.

Nice, but not as much fun as self-service eat-all-you-can-pick

rambles through the brambles.