27 August 2012

Hello Everyone

If you are reading this and not in the UK it is a public holiday here today.  It feels a bit like a Sunday and we are having a very quiet day.  The weather is not good - wet and windy all day so far and poor Martini and Daisy are sick of getting dried when we have been out for our walks.  We should have taken a photo yesterday as we were out in the sunshine and went for a lovely walk towards Sandale around 5pm but as we have no mobile phone signal in our village Morag didn't take the trusty phone to take any photos.  Note to Morag - remember to take the phone for photo opportunities.  Talking of photos, there is a free sitting this coming weekend (1st September) with photographer Joanne Caffrey at the salon.  You would need to book a 30 minute slot and there are two slots left so get in touch if you would like your portrait, or one of you dog(s) or family members.

For a long weekend the weather hasn't been terrific but we hope the people who went to Solfest this weekend managed to enjoy themselves and it wasn't too muddy.  Solfest is a local music festival held at Tarnside Farm and we know some of our former neighbours from Mealsgate go every year.  We know they took their wellies and they would have needed them today no doubt! Martini often looks like he is wearing wellies when he gets really wet as his legs are so fluffy.  We have posted a photo of two bedraggled little poochies (aka Martini and Daisy) which was taken a few minutes ago.  Martini's ears start to ringlet when he is so wet and poor Daisy looks sorry for herself but they were very happy to go out for a walk rain and all.

We hope the weather is better wherever you are!

With woofs and tail wags

Morag, Martini and Daisy

13 August 2012 - Yappy Birthday Martini

Hello Everyone

It is Martini's birthday and he is 6 years old today so have a very Yappy Birthday Martini!  We have posted one of our very favourite photos of Martini because it is his special day and we think he looks like a supermodel.

We are still unable to post on Sundays as we still don't have broadband at home but the exciting news is that an engineer is coming to our house tomorrow to finally have a look and see what the problem is.  Fingers crossed everyone our broadband will be fixed tomorrow at long last!  Thank you so much to our neighbour James who has been kind enough to let us use his broadband in the meantime.

We had a very busy week last week and some of our website models came to get their hair done on Saturday.  All seven sisters came along so Saturday was very busy and very noisy at times. Five of them are on the home page (posing in the bath) of our website www.doggydoos.org.  We had little Coco Chanel on her own once they had been collected and it seemed very quiet suddenly.  

We hope everyone has enjoyed the Olympics as much as we have - we thought the coverage was excellent and really enjoyed the interviews with the winners and (sometimes) the losers.  Team GB did so well to come third in the overall standings - Dream Team GB!

With woofs and tail wags

Morag, Martini and Daisy

6 August 2012 - Stair Gate

Hello Everyone

We are a day behind with our blog as we still don't have internet access at our new house but the internet provider is "looking into it" so we will just have to patiently wait for it to be sorted out.  We are lucky enough to have internet access at the salon courtesy of Cumbria Computer Consultants who let us use their broadband - thank you James!

In the meantime, we would like to give a big bow wow THANK YOU to our dear friends John, Elizabeth and Ann for helping us move last weekend and Elizabeth very kindly brought us a picnic too!

We have called this blog Stair Gate - as in Water Gate - as there was a mystery surrounding the opening of the stair gate.  Very occasionally, Martini and Daisy have to stay at home and in our new house the whole of the downstairs is a very large kitchen and utility room.  The stairs leading to the lounge and bedrooms has a stair gate.  The first time Morag went out she thought she had closed the stair gate but it was open on her return.  The second time she went out she double checked it was locked but on her return it was open again.  Well two little naughty dogs (aka Martini and Daisy) have worked out how to open the stair gate so it is child proof but not doggy proof! Today, we have posted a photo of Martini looking a bit guilty sitting behind the closed gate and not only can he open the gate, it has been discovered that he can even crawl under it!

We have had torrential rain here in Cumbria so we hope the sun is shining wherever you are!

With woofs and tail wags

Morag, Martini and Daisy