26 March 2012

Hello Everyone

We are writing this on Monday morning as we got home quite late last night from York visiting Morag's mummy.  We all had a great day out with wall to wall sunshine again.  We have posted a photo of Martini and Daisy having a little rest when we went for a little walk in the sunshine.

The decorating at the salon is nearly complete but the salon will be closed today (26th) and tomorrow (27th) so the final touches can be done.  Everything has to be moved so the flooring can be laid, hence it is easier to close for a couple of days instead of trying to work around it.  The rest of the week is pretty busy although there are a few appointments left if you need to book.

A date for your diary; this year we will be having an event on 16th June which will be a K9 Fancy Dress competition called K9 Capers.  We are also planning a "bring and buy" table to raise funds for a local charity called Matching Partners Canine Rescue (you can find them on Facebook).  We have already been given our first item for the table and the salon will also donate new items for the sale.  For local readers, if you have any spare items like leads, bowls etc in your "dog cupboard" which are no longer of use to you, please feel free to donate them.  If any items are not sold, then the remaining items will be donated along with any cash raised.  Your support will be greatly appreciated!

Are you interested attending in a Canine First Aid Course?  As long as we have 10 people attending, we can hold a course at the salon - the course covers CPR, vital sign, bleeding, fractures, poisoning etc and costs £30 per person (which is excellent value for money and could prove invaluable).  If you are interested, please contact the salon (07785 536088) for further details. 

We hope you are all enjoying the sunshine!

With woofs and tail wags

Morag, Martini and Daisy 

18 March 2012

Hello Everyone

It is Mother's Day here in the UK today so we would like to wish Morag's mummy a very Happy Mother's Day!

We have had wall to wall sunshine today here in Cumbria although we did see a dusting of snow on the tops of the Northern Fells which must have been put there yesterday afternoon.  We did have a couple of really nice walks in the sunshine but we spent a few hours painting the new salon - "we" means Morag painted and Martini and Daisy watched and slept through most of the hard work!  It looks like the very large wall which was painted a dark grey colour is going to take three coats to cover!

We ordered the new poodles for the front doors of the salon and instead of getting black poodles (which were on the doors of our previous premises) we have opted for the colour which matches our salon sign - the colour is, apparently, called saffron but we think they look better.  Today we have posted a photo of our new poodles with Martini and Daisy posing too.  All in all, the decorating work is progressing and we hope to have everything completely finished before Easter.

With woofs and tail wags

Morag, Martini and Daisy 

11 March 2012

Hello Everyone

Today we travelled to York to visit Morag's mummy as it is her birthday today.  We have posted a photo of Morag's mummy with Daisy and Martini who just love their Grandma so a big Yappy Birthday and many happy returns!  A big Yappy Birthday also goes to Macauley who is 12 years old today!

We have had a lovely day in York and it made a lovely change for the sun to be shining and it was warm enough just for a T-shirt.  The weather seemed really nice in Cumbria this morning before we left and, as usual, it was very foggy near Stainmore on the A66 on our drive home.

It has been a very busy week at the salon.  Daisy had her haircut on Thursday with the intention of giving Martini a long overdue hair cut too.  Unfortunately, we ran out of time on Saturday so Martini looks like a very fluffy rug at the moment - there will be no escape this week though and a hair cut is on the cards for Martini.

We hope everyone has had a lovely weekend.

With woofs and tail wags

Morag, Martini and Daisy

4 March 2012

Hello Everyone

We have posted a photo taken at 9am near Keswick in the Lake District as it had been snowing in the morning.  The weather here in Cumbria has been a real mixed bag over the last few days with almost T-shirt weather on Friday!

The salon has been busy this week and we did manage to give the place a fresh coat of paint on Monday (in a fetching shade of magnolia) but we have decided to re-paint it in white just as soon as we have a couple of free days together.  Today we went as far as Gateshead to buy blinds for all the windows and we have also ordered new "poodles" for the double doors at the front, although this time they will appear in a colour called saffron and not black as they were at the Mealsgate salon.  It all seems a lot of work but little by little all the jobs are being done - the biggest job will be to paint the floor which will have to be done in two or three sections over a few days.  Hopefully, we will have new photos for the website very soon as it still has photos of the Mealsgate salon..

We would like to wish Macauley's mummy a very Yappy Birthday for today - she did tell us how old she was going to be but we feel it is more polite to keep that information to ourselves.  Honey (Labradoodle) was three years old yesterday - Honey came to the salon yesterday for a birthday bath and we posted a photo of Honey on our Facebook page which you can get to via the website www.doggydoos.org - so big Yappy Birthday to Honey from the three of us!

We went for a walk a little while ago in the sunshine but it was so very cold we decided to cut our walk short and come back to our nice warm house - mainly because Morag's fingers were nearly falling off!

With woofs and tail wags

Morag, Martini and Daisy