tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78600593618247985752024-03-13T15:36:32.868+00:00Bun Mountain CottageLynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09024237340152393255noreply@blogger.comBlogger314125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860059361824798575.post-81205559759303792522015-01-08T23:44:00.000+00:002015-01-08T23:44:58.689+00:00A Short Walk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Earlier this week, (Tuesday),</div>
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Well the sun was shining,</div>
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so it seemed a good idea.</div>
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If it hadn't been so cold,</div>
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it could almost have been spring.</div>
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A nuthatch was hopping amongst the branches,</div>
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making a devil of a loud noise.</div>
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Who knew they were so noisy?</div>
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There was an intermittent breeze.</div>
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It won't be long before we see leaves in bud.</div>
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That will be quite a transformation.</div>
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So that was my short walk.</div>
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It's proving to be a regular one.</div>
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A walk along the road,</div>
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to the river,</div>
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and over the bridge.</div>
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It's nice to continue the walk down to the river</div>
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and alongside it in either direction.</div>
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But with all the rain of late,</div>
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it is just so muddy underfoot,</div>
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requiring me to don borrowed willies,</div>
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several sizes too big.</div>
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So, I'll reserve that for another time,</div>
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or perhaps when it has dried underfoot.</div>
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That won't be for a while I expect,</div>
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it rained very heavy yesterday.</div>
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Though you wouldn't think it</div>
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looking at these blue skies from the day before,</div>
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would you?</div>
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Five days into the new year.</div>
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Time for a trip into the countryside.</div>
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Looking towards the Lakeland fells.</div>
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Past interesting sounding places like</div>
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Scarrowmanwick,</div>
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not so nice sounding places as</div>
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Dead Man's Slack</div>
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and Foul Sike,</div>
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and the nicer place names such as</div>
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Rose Farm, Fetherston Hill</div>
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and my favourites,</div>
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Raven Beck and Daleraven.</div>
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It was lovely to rediscover some of the places and views</div>
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I have travelled in an earlier lifetime.</div>
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As lovely as ever.</div>
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Wishing you all a Happy New Year.</div>
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<br />Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09024237340152393255noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860059361824798575.post-30139583254348977302014-11-20T23:11:00.000+00:002014-11-20T23:11:07.323+00:00Fish in a Jumper<br />
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This morning was lovely and sunny, too nice to be indoors, so my sister and I took a short walk with our cameras.<br />
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We walked as far as the river, which isn't very far at all, and admired the views from the bridge.<br />
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My sister spotted a dipper. I took this photo on full zoom, which isn't enough to show the bird up well. My sister's camera captured it better with it's bigger zoom. It was lovely to watch the bird diving into the water and swimming around.<br />
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Then I spotted this fish beneath us on the bridge. It was just keeping it's place in the river with very little effort against the current. It looked most peculiar, as from our position above, it looked to me as though it was wearing a jumper. It's head and tail were pale while the rest of its body was dark. It was probably a salmon, a big one too.<br />
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Altogether, a morning to brighten the spirits.<br />
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This morning started off sunny.</div>
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it was lovely and sunny,</div>
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The sun cast distinct shadows.</div>
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It lies on the wall</div>
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At<a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/lanercost-priory/" target="_blank"> Lanercost Priory</a>.</div>
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Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09024237340152393255noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860059361824798575.post-19230854522300058102014-10-22T00:29:00.000+01:002014-10-22T00:29:35.912+01:00Bleak dayYesterday was a bleak day for us,<br />
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It's the same walk I did with Paddy, Jewel and Rufus,</div>
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all lost to osteosarcoma now,</div>
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After we'd walked round the tarn,</div>
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no cake for me.</div>
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The very same place</div>
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finished off someone's ice cream that they had dropped.</div>
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Fond memories.</div>
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Very sad to say that we lost our Big Boy, Paddy to osteosarcoma today.</div>
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He was diagnosed with heart problems a year ago and was given medication on the understanding that it would give him a further 6- 12 months.</div>
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On Wednesday, he was diagnosed with bone cancer.</div>
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Today Mike drove to a special place to spend some time with Paddy,</div>
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just the two of them together.</div>
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'It seemed a special moment in time that we were both caught up in....'</div>
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February 2003- 20th October 2014</div>
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Paddy was special.</div>
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He was often anxious, and sometimes fretted.</div>
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He's the only greyhound I know of that had to go on a diet.</div>
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One of his favourite things to do</div>
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Our other greyhounds would stop eating their food part way through and swop bowls.</div>
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Not Paddy,</div>
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no one swopped with him</div>
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because there was nothing left to swop!</div>
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He was a most handsome fellow.</div>
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He couldn't understand it if we passed people on the footpath and they didn't stop to stroke him.</div>
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When people did stop to say hello,</div>
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it was Paddy they were drawn to,</div>
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and Paddy who would push his way through to be closest to them.</div>
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He was a charmer and loved to be stroked.</div>
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There will be a big gap in our lives without Paddy.</div>
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Left to right: Jewel, Paddy, Rufus, all lost to osteosarcoma,</div>
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Such a lovely day today,</div>
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(yesterday),</div>
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I'm so out of practice writing posts,</div>
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it takes me ages.</div>
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I went for a bike ride.</div>
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It was a bit hot to be riding a bicycle.</div>
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But I only rode as far as Bernkastel, (7 km.).</div>
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until I arrived in Bernkastel,</div>
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where I noticed where this cruise ship originally was from,</div>
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River Harmony was registered in Valletta, Malta.</div>
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I like seeing the cruise ships on the river.</div>
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They are a touch of luxury against the working barges.</div>
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It was obvious that lots of people had the same idea of getting out on their bicycles, despite the heat.</div>
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Mike met me in Bernkastle. He had left after me, but had come on his motorbike.</div>
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We enjoyed an ice cream together under the shade of a tree before going our separate ways.</div>
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This is a café half way up the hill to the castle.</div>
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There are lovely views across the river from there.</div>
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Leaving Bernkastel,</div>
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I stopped to take capture this lovely chapel snuggled</div>
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It's lovely cycling next to the river.</div>
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I had more photos to show,</div>
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before embarking on the return journey.</div>
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I was so busy enjoying the ice cream,</div>
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continuing with our trip to the Eifel Wild Life Park...</div>
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It looks as though Reuben is playing hide and seek with the deer.</div>
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Maybe he was.</div>
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It was quite a distance to walk all the way round,</div>
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and the path eventually led up a hill.</div>
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The quickest and most direct way down was by this:-</div>
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I thought I had persuaded Reuben to have a go on it with me.</div>
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The playground suited him far better.</div>
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There was climbing,</div>
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that he had multiple goes on,</div>
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The title of this post is somewhat misleading, as the photos here show anything but a lazy day, or two! The two lazy days that I am referring to are those that follow the very active day walking round a wild life park followed by a days cycling and I'm forgetting, before that, we had an unplanned walk up a hill to a castle.</div>
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It all began on Tuesday evening when my daughter, Siobhan, arrived with her son, Reuben. After picking them up at the airport, Reuben quickly reacquainted himself with the hounds. He became firm friends with Arthur who you can see here with Indie. Ignore the plant on the left, Danny has taken to eating the leaves off it.</div>
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The next day we had to stay close to home as Mike was away, and I had to get back for the hounds. What started off as a walk round Bernkastel, (which we've done lots of times before), we carried on up the main street, (which we haven't done before), crossed over the road and followed a very nice woodland path along the stream, up the hill, leading eventually to the castle at the top. We have been to the castle before, but not taking this route. It was very pleasant and picturesque. There was a lovely waterfall part way up that we took a short detour to. Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera with me, so no photos.</div>
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The next day was earmarked to visit a wild life park. We have been to two similar parks before. But this one was new to us. The car park was a little distance from the entrance, and once inside the park, Siobhan said that she thought we wouldn't be able to go out for the picnic that we had brought with us. It was in a cool bag, so not the easiest of things to carry round with us. Though we did notice some lockers! Never mind, we set off to discover what the park had in store for us. There were various attractions for Reuben to have a go on.</div>
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The weather was lovely, warm and sunny, but not too hot. These are only half the photos that I've picked out to share. I'll be back tomorrow with the rest, now I have some gardening to do. I think I can manage that after doing very little over the last two days.</div>
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Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09024237340152393255noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860059361824798575.post-69601677573180970842014-04-17T21:16:00.000+01:002014-04-17T21:16:59.677+01:00Hooray<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm able to upload photos to my blog again.</div>
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It's taken a visit by my daughter to help sort me out.</div>
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Still no photos, what a shame. I must try to get that fixed.<br />
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A birthday treat for me today as well. 'Love Patchwork and Quilting' arrived direct to my door. A birthday present from my daughter, son, grandson and relative partners. What a lovely thoughtful gift. It's brought a smile to my face, and will do so every month I'm sure.<br />
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<br />Lynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09024237340152393255noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7860059361824798575.post-18584234485453615042014-01-07T22:53:00.000+00:002014-01-07T22:53:22.792+00:00A Birthday WalkI never post without including photos. But having spent considerable time earlier this evening choosing and organising photos to post, I've given up. I just can't get them onto this post. Which is a shame as some of them actually show blue skies.<br />
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I had a birthday just after Christmas. If the weather was nice we thought we would go for a longer walk than usual. The weather was wet and grey. So no walk.<br />
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Again, we planned a longer walk on New Year's Day. But the weather was grey and damp. So once again, just the usual walk with the dogs.<br />
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Today is Mike's birthday, and at last there was sunshine. So we took ourselves off with the dogs for a walk through the woods. It stayed dry until the last bit of the walk when it had dulled over and started to spit with rain. But before that we had enjoyed some lovely views overlooking the River Mosel. Just a shame I can't show the walk in pictures.<br />
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Still, Mike says he enjoyed his birthday.<br />
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A New Year,</div>
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At last, the weather has broken and it's cooler.</div>
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I picked these flowers whilst out on our walk yesterday morning.</div>
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Marigold.</div>
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Cornflower.</div>
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It seems to be getting hotter.</div>
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We've had beautiful weather here on the Mosel for weeks now.</div>
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Spring was wet here, unusually,</div>
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Paddy and Arthur spend most of the day in the cellar where it's cool.</div>
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Now I've made a start, best to continue.<br />
Thank you for the lovely comments welcoming me back, such a surprise to see that I hadn't been forgotten.<br />
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These are the photos I tried to upload/download on my last post. They were taken in April I think. It's warm enough for me not to need a jacket, but the trees are still bare. <br />
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Featured from left to right, we have: Danny; Indie; Arthur: myself and Paddy. Jess who sometimes walks off the lead has run over to the photographer- Mike. <br />
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Unusually, I feature in each of the photos, (I don't like seeing myself in photos these days), but I liked the different expressions of each of the dogs. So I couldn't resist including them all.<br />
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I've been away from Blogging for over a year but have started visiting blogs again, mainly lurking.<br />
It seems that if I don't do something about claiming my blog before the end of June- I'm not sure what will happen, so here goes with Bloglovin.<br />
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The morning had a dull and icy start to it.So I waited for it to warm up a bit before taking the hounds out. Sure enough, the sun came out and it was lovely out, even warm, when all wrapped up of course.<br />
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After the walk, I then drove to the vets to get some more painkillers for Rufus. I saw the lady vet who treats all our hounds. She is lovely. She said she had just been thinking about Jewel (there is a photo of Jewel on the windowsill behind the receptionists counter), and was wondering how Rufus was. So I updated her.<br />
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To get to the vets, we have to travel upriver to Bernkastel and beyond. It's only a matter of about 6 miles. There are some locks on the river in the next village to us, and from then on, all the way to the vets, ice covered the river. Not only ice, but the snow that fell yesterday, making a river of white. It was spectacular, sparkling in the sun. Just a shame I didn't have the camera so I could have shown you.<br />
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So instead, I am showing you a bit of colour in the form of this throw that I made last year. These photos are dated the beginning of March, so I guess it's been finished for about a year.<br />
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Well I'm hoping the sun continues to shine over the weekend. It makes everything so much more cheery. Hope it's cheery for you, whatever the weather.<br />
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I took this photo a while back. After having an incredibly mild winter, Mike passed a comment about how we hadn't had a winter. Shortly afterwards we had some frosty mornings. Then about two weeks ago we had a light dusting of snow which has lingered until now in places. And from then on it has just got very cold. There is even ice on the river.</div>
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Yesterday afternoon it snowed again. It was bitterly cold when I took the hounds out for their afternoon walk, and there were light flakes of snow. At teatime when I looked out of the window it had snowed properly, not deep, but a proper fall, covering all the surrounding roads. Fortunately, that has thawed in todays sunshine. Last night when I took the hounds out for their walk before bedtime, the moon was full, and even though it was cloudy, it cast a light which together with the snow, made it almost as light as day. I was able to see the surrounding hillsides, right to the top and the other side of the river too. Magical.</div>
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Thank you for all your good wishes regarding Rufus. The vet gave him some painkillers, and he seems comfortable. He has a very healthy appetite, his coat is soft and healthy. He doesn't appear to be ill at all. He's usually on the sofa next to me when I'm on the computer. I have to type one handed as he objects when I stop stroking him.</div>
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Thank you also for your birthday wishes for my grandson. When I talked to him on the phone, he was most impressed when I told him that people from all round the world wished him a happy birthday.</div>
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My other hand is continually stroking Rufus</div>
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He doesn't like me to take my hand away from him.</div>
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