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Brancaster beach

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We had a wonderful day at Brancaster beach yesterday. Beautiful sunshine and warm enough to get my feet wet. Yogi loved it once again. He found all the lovely things hidden in the sand he can chew on and pick up and throw about. And of course he loved to just run.

Before the fun started at the beach, we stopped in Thornham at the Orange Tree Pub and Restaurant. Lovely place with amazing food.

admin @ May 22, 2010

Ian’s development blog in PC PRo has been published now!

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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2010/05/18/adding-video-to-your-website-with-html5/

admin @ May 18, 2010

Yogi – man about town

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Yogi’s social life is better than my own. On this lovely sunny Sunday we went off on a walk to Stourbridge Common. But before we even get there, we bump into Max, the Border Terrier and Harry the Norfolk Terrier and they have a good runaround. Yogi secretly – well actually openly admires Max, Harry is off to pretty much do his own thing.
We then continue along to the Common where we meet Jerry, he is a Corgy-Collie mix, too old for a wild run but he indulges him with a loving wrestle. Yogi for the first time does a hump, no idea what brought that on, I guess it really is time to get him snipped. Eventually we move on, we are all thirsty, but before we get to the bridge that leads home we bumps into Deo and Angus, his Pug friends, they seem to have a kiss and a little chat. No surprise he is now knackered, lying in the sun on the terrace. What an exciting walk!

admin @ May 16, 2010

Sun sun sun

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Horray, lovely weather, been on long walk today along the Cam. We were all totally knackered afterwards. My legs are still hurting, Yogi of course is all fit and bouncy again after a short snooze. Must go for another little walk now, so that will be it for today.
Yesterday, we went for a nice walk too but also into town, around there and had lunch outside at the market square at Don Pascquale, great family run Italian. Good value too! And yummy cake for desert, hmmmm.
After a rainy but warm start today, it’s all blue sky and sunny. So off we are… bye!

admin @ April 25, 2010

Spring is here!

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Yay! Just had to write that Spring has arrived eventually! Up to 18 degrees Celsius today, it was just wonderful. Went for the lunchtime walk with Yogi just needing a cardigan. I am so happy. Looking forward to spending time on the terrace again! Need to sort out my plant pots this weekend, need to put some seeds out, it looks all so empty and dark.

Anyway, I am a bit tired today, after getting a little less sleep last night due to St. Patrick’s Day drinks at the Geldart. Yogi had a lick of Guinness off my finger and seems to be very keen on it, it’s full of iron, so can’t really be bad for him ;o).

Putting in another order of Kinnie, the fabulous Maltese soft drink, why oh why is this not a staple drink all around this world like Coke I wonder! In absense of that, I am ordering it at the Maltese Culture Movement, those lovely people there will be sending me 2 cases shortly.

http://www.kinnie.com/page.asp?n=home

If you are ever in Malta or Gozo, try it, it’s wonderfully refreshing. Bitter Orange/Herbal limonade, might not sound nice, but it IS! I promise!

Best regards
Bisa

admin @ March 18, 2010

Beach Yogi

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Yesterday we went to the beach with Yogi for the first time. I chose Old Hunstanton as it has a dog friendly pub right by the beach and beach parking as well.

He absolutely loved it. He was running around like a little nutter. When we were far away from anyone else I let him off the lead and he just sprinted around as if he had never tasted freedom like this before. Well the vastness of space there is quite amazing even for a human. I am always stunned when I get there. It was low tide so we just did a walk up to the waterline and back, but that took us a good hour with Yogi running after his ball and crissing and crossing around. In the end we had to take him on the lead again, as some idiotic people decided to go exactly where we were and he spotted them and wouldn’t stop running to them and trying to say hello. He didn’t jump though which is great.

There was so much space, these people should have really picked another path, nevermind.

Possibly not so bad, as he was wearing himself out. On the way back he was wet, sandy and shivering making some little whimpering noises, I think he was a bit cold. But the moment we were on dry sand he was back to his old self. We then had lunch at on the terrace of the Ancient Mariner Inn pub, as the weather was lovely. We had to keep our coats on but the sun was out and it was fairly sheltered. Yogi went into his little travel box for a well-needed snooze.

We then went for another little walk in the dunes. Sat down and had hot tea from the flask and a chocolate cookie I’ve got from a little tearoom beach shop.

Yogi slept most of the drive home and for the rest of the evening wasn’t getting up again. He was well and truely knackered.

Oh he did bring up some food, I think that was due to the amount of saltwater and sand he must have ingested, but he seemed fine afterwards, going straight back to sleep.

Only got up when I made him this morning at nearly 10am, can’t recall the last time I’ve stayed in bed that long, but I was pretty exhausted myself.

admin @ March 14, 2010

Can’t wait for July

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Our holiday for July has been booked. 10 days, one week Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall and then 2 days in the Cotswolds on the way back to break up the long journey.

Will be here: http://www.heath-farm-holidays.co.uk/granary.html

And then here: http://www.thetollgate.com/accommodation.html

On a grey dark stormy and rainy day like today, thinking about the summer, warm balmy evenings in beautiful landscapes is just the thing to do.

Bisa

admin @ February 28, 2010

Woes and happiness…

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…are often close neighbours. As much joy as we get from Yogi, he unfortunately has been causing us some serious worry recently.

First time last week on Friday and then again yesterday he displayed some scary signs. He would suddenlly have spastic fits, his legs would be all over the place and he would make mad fearful dashes around mixed with whining, panting and shivering. We had no idea what it could be. First time I went to the 24 hour vet, not recommendable as it costs an absolute fortune but they couldn’t help. Yesterday I managed to still go to my usual vet and they said we would have to do further blood tests. There are two possiblities that look likely, I hope it’s the first rather than the latter. It could be hypoglycemia, which is when the dog has too low suger levels, so it’s like diabetes. This isn’t good but can be dealt with fairly easily it seems. The other option would be liver shunt, which would be much worse and require an operation to close the artery that passes the toxic blood around the liver into the system.

And despite best efforts to insure the little fellow, he managed to get this all in the inbetween time. So although the 24 vet bill should be mainly covered by his initial puppy insurance that his breeder set up for the first 4 weeks, any further treatment he needs for this we have to cough up, as I arranged him to be covered by a different insurance a week before his other one ran out and the problem occured again in the one week inbetween where his last one has expired and the new one doesn’t cover him yet as they have this silly 14 day rule. Meaning in the first 2 weeks of him being insured he isn’t covered for any illness, injury and whatever and of course whatever this turns out to be it will be treated as a pre-existing condition and they won’t pay a penny towards his treatment.

Gladly, he recovers fairly quickly after a few hours and I personally think it’s likely to be the hypoglycemia. He hasn’t eaten all his breakfast and lunch and I then stupidly went for a walk to pick Ian up before feeding him and he displayed this right after we got home.

Anyway, whatever it is, we love him so much and won’t give up on him, although it will hurt financially.

On the positive side, he slept in the bed between us all night feeling all cosy and secure and we went for a fantastic walk at Wimpole Hall. He thoroughly enjoyed playing with a Schnauzer - off lead for the first time and walked wonderfully next to us not in the slightest interested in running off too far. We fed him of course right away when we got back to the car and I just gave him some canned Hill’s food when we got home to ensure he is topping up his calories. He is currently snoozing happily on the sofa ignoring the Rugby on the telly and the mad Irish man next to him who randomly shouts at the screen.

I am off to the shops now to get something nice for us to eat and to buy a bin for Yogi’s bagged poo. Joy!

admin @ February 27, 2010

Hoooolidayyy!

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Well it’s still a while to go, but in Summer we are going to the Lizard in Cornwall for a week. We have just booked a lovely cottage on a farm near the costal path by Coverack. I have never been to Cornwall and always wanted to go, so I am very exited to go eventually.

And the best of all, this will be our first holiday with Yogi! I can already see us go on lovley walks along the coast and as the beaches are dog friendly, to see him brave the waves… maybe.

We have also had a bit of a breakthrough regarding toilet training, no indoor accidents at all today, he goes to the door whenever he needs to do his business, what a great, clever boy! So fingers crossed the worst is over regarding this matter. Went all rather painless.

Now we have to get over our own issues with leaving him in his crate (mainly Ian). It’s quite hearbreaking, but it’s only for some hours at a time, I go home for an hour over lunch and he does actually sleep most of the day even if we are here. He then get’s active when we are home in the afternoon, so all is good really.

Can’t wait for tomorrow as he can be taken out for the first time. From having taken him out on walks in my arms, he is quite scared of the big outdoors still, but I am sure he will eventually love it. In any case, it will be lovely to see him explore his surroundings a bit and take him to the pub. Horray! )