Doesn't time fly?

Has it really been over a month since we last blogged?

We blame the Madwoman as she has been so busy

gluing and felting for the Kim's Home auction

that on some days she hasn't even turned the computer on.

It has also been really cold so inbetween supervising the Madwoman's

sticky crafting efforts we have been doing a bit of this:

 and a bit of this:

 and a bit more of this:

quite a lot of this: 

and after an expedition  to COAM this morning

we now need to catch up on a bit of this: 

A sad week

 

It's been an odd sort of week.

The secure paddocks which the Madwoman hires for us to use four times a week.

have been sold, so we had our last zoomies there on Friday. It was wet enough for raincoats, but we made the most of it.

We've been lucky enough to have the use of them for ten years,

and have had lots of fun there, but we shall miss them. 

There was another farewell this week too,

as Angel's sister Grace-in-America went to Rainbow Bridge.

This is the candle we lit for her. 

The Madwoman decided we needed some cheering up so we

went to Chiltern Open Air Museum yesterday.

We ate blackberries ...

Then we stared reprovingly at the goats, who we suspect of

eating lots of the blackberries ...

And then we came home for a snooze.

It will be our birthdays soon, so we multi-tasked while napping,

thinking of presents to put on our wish-lists ...

We're thinking that this year, a new paddock will be at the top.

Although sucking pig will come a close second.

On our holidays

Belated Easter bleatings to you all!

We took a holiday from blogging in order to spend as much time as possible doing 

snoozing

tennis ball chasing

zooming

more snoozing

lurking under the table waiting for Grandma to drop bits of

roast turkey into our waiting mouths, followed by 

more snoozing.

Well, it is Easter.

Oh, and here is a pic of us with our Aunty Lisa when she visited us last week.
We like Aunty Lisa.
She understands how important it is for us to keep up our strength with gravy bones.
A lesson we wish the Madwoman would take more notice of.

Sleeping position # 4

Sleeping position # 4 in an occasional series

The Harvey Smith*

(can be loosley interpreted as 'go away and stop disturbing me

while I'm snoozing, and you can take that camera away too')

Zzzzzzzzz

Having a lie in.

Come back later.

Too hot for words

We haven't posted for a while 'cos it's just been too hot.

 

We've been busy instead doing a bit of this ...

 

Followed by a bit of this when the full sun got a bit much ... 

 

And when it got too hot even in the shade outdoors,

we came indoors and did a bit of this ... 

 

and a bit of this ... 

 

It's a dog's life ...

Singing in the snow

Snowflakes keep falling on our heads

But we're not complaining, 'cos we're going back to our beds,

Snow is not for us,

We'll keep snoozing 'till the weather's more amusing,

Because we're wippitts

Snow's not bothering us .... 

Posing

All this posing can be absolutely exhausting daaahling ... and even when you're taking a well-earned break you can find a camera being pushed in your face ...

We are wippitts of many skills ... as well as those you've already read about, you can add Posing For The Camera. This is something we've been doing much of lately - hence the paucity of recent blogs. We have been far too busy looking our very best while the Madwoman leaps around clutching a camera and excitedly squeaking things like "Hold it right there!" and "A little more to the left!" While this isn't too bad when you're enjoying a snooze, it's downright inconvenient when you're in mid roll on your back, scratching that itchy place ... Mind you, this posing stuff does have it's good points - plenty of bribery in the form of treats, although we feel it's about time the Madwoman got that last piece of liver bread out of the freezer and started dishing it out.

What's it all in aid of? We did think it might be because the Madwoman is working on a new dog book, but it turns out she's entering us in an online dog show. It's certainly a lot less stressful than going to a real one, so we suppose we should be grateful. If you would like your own Madperson to enter you, then jog over to http://www.sighthoundsonline.org.uk/ where you can check out the rules. It's all in a good cause, although we're hoping we don't win - we believe the prize is a portrait, which would no doubt mean yet more posing ...