I'm sad to say my wonderful Pippin died this week so this will be the end of the blog. He was my BFF and a total delight for more than thirteen years and I can.t imagine my life without him.
Penelope

Well,I know I have the odd grumble about P but.....she has let three years go by without updating my posts so you can see things from my point of view now. Still, she made sure I had a great 13th birthday,I did in fact have two parties, one in church in the morning with cake and candles and cards and gifta and one in the afternoon at the Rocking Horse Cafe at Rock with more cake, candles, cards and gifts, we were both very tired when we got home but when all said and done we are both getting on a bit now.

Guess what, I have a new best pal, Saber, the cat from next door. We spent a year chasing each other, at first we meant it then it became a bit half hearted now we don't bother at all.

I don't mind at all if he comes in the house and I really like our little walks round the garden but I do feel a bit left behind when he climbs onto something high and I can't follow.

Well, yesterday, 13th February, was my tenth birthday and I had such a lovely day. I attended my first party in the morning with cake number one

P and I got home in time to get ready for party number two with, of course, cake number two. At least this time there was a little cake for me made from meat.

I rather like my bow tie and wear it for my more formal occasions, I think that I look rather young for a ten year old lad.

The celebrations aren't over yet, tomorrow some of my doggy pals are coming to tea. I would think that by tomorrow evening P and I will both be totally partied out.

I've had three friends staying for the day and we had some fun walks.

Spike, Tilly and I found something REALLY interesting. Blue pretended she didn't want to know what it was but I bet she did really.

I was a bit put out when we got home, Blue and Tilly commandeered MY sofa and refused to make room for me, personally I prefer my window but I wasn't going to admit that to them.

HOWEVER.......sorry, I shouldn't shout, however, Spike took over the window watching for his mum coming home - not sure having company is such a good idea!!

Everyone has gone home now so P and I can mellow out and enjoy the evening.
WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR from P&P xx

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS XXX

Wow, little paddy-paws got a bit cold this morning but it was all very beautiful so P went back for her camera which meant we had to do the walk twice. I for one was more than ready to go home for my breakfast porridge.

Today is P's birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY... I helped out a lot by grabbing as much birthday cake as I could to make sure she didn't eat too much, there are times a lad simply has to stand up and be counted. We've had a good day.

I had some of the gang round the other day and P said we could do whatever we wanted but her sofa was out of bounds. Well, she shouldn't have gone through for a drink should she? Any self respecting dog is going to head straight for a warm cosy sofa. I wasn't quick enough to get my usual window seat but I did make sure I had room to stretch out.

I have just been subjected to a totally unnecessary bath!!!!!
The indignity of it!
Ok, I was a little muddy and ok, I had plodged through the mud and ok I had rolled in a satisfying amount of deer poo (this was the clincher as far as P was concerned) and ok, looking at the photos the water isn't exactly clean...BUT.... I liked the smell and it took a prodigious amount of effort to get that smelly but never mind, tomorrow is another day and another pile of deer poo no doubt.

I've been on an adventure today. Our normal dog walk goes down the path of the old railway line but becomes very overgrown at the end. P wanted to get as far as the river so that she could catch water pokermon so we enlisted the help of Spike and Clare and Clare's machete.

We followed Clare into the undergrowth with P bringing up the rear carrying nothing more useful than a camera.

A path was cleared right to the river and Spike went in for a swim. I had hung back for a bit to keep an eye on base camp.

We rested for a while back at base camp then home for lunch. I rather enjoy adventures.

Spike, who lives next door came round to visit yesterday. He found my stuffed pheasant and rather took to him. I was not amused!!! His owner said that Spike has been known to 'kill' toys so she rescued it for me. P then hid it in the spokes of the garden umbrella, not the best of hiding places, Spike had sussed it in no time and set up retrieval offensive. P found a better hiding place and Spike returned to happily playing with his ball. Whew!

I do try to indulge P whenever it doesn't interfere with my own wishes so I have happily accompanied her on Pokermon quests of late. In all fairness we have had some really long walks that I have really enjoyed so I was prepared to accept her latest obsession......as long as it didn't take too much of her attention away from me. HOWEVER her pesky Pokermon have invaded my home, not only that, one had the temerity to sit on my sofa!!!!! Well, as you can imagine dear reader I could not put up with that and was forced to give him a severe scare.....I think.

I thought you would like to see some photos of the gang coming back from a morning walk so I got P to take some photos. Now wouldn't you think she would manage to get everyone in view at the same time? Ah well, I will put two photos up so that you can see all six of us. I love it when we all go out together. Obviously as soon as I see a camera I sit right at the front to be shown off to best advantage but I didn't mind when my best pal Spike came to sit beside me.

P and I had a very exciting day last week, we were invited on board one of the beautiful tall ships that is part of the Tall Ship Race at the end of the month. Even with her sails down (if that is the correct terminology) she was just lovely. I have to say that getting an aged P and a small dog on board wasn't easy but well worth it.

I've been rather stressed lately because P has been a bit poorly but she is much better now and we are able to do things again. We were the ace raffle team for a friend's pop-up charity shop which was great fun. I think P got a bit tired but she did well as my assistant.
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What a long time it's been since I talked to you, sorry about that but my paws don't cope with the keyboard so I have to rely on P and she has not been on the ball. Now however I have some lovely OU friends that I want to keep in touch with and P has promised faithfully to keep this blog up to date so that they know what I'm doing.
Since we last met P and I have moved house and we live in a railway cottage now. There are lots of dogs near by who are my friends and we go for walks together along the old railway track and it's rather good fun to be one of the gang. I obviously need a lot of rest with all the walks and my favourite place is on the windowsill in the sunshine.

I went on a trip last Friday to Chesters. I thought looking at old Roman stones wouldn't be fun for a chap but there was lots of field to play in, things to climb and treats when they stopped for coffee......which they did rather a lot,  my friend Ben came too so I had company. Rather a good day actually.

Somehow I don't think they're dogs?????

I went to Debbie's house yesterday and she has a garden just made for dogs. I chased rabbits and played in the woods and ran until I was out of breath. You have to look carefully at the photo to spot me coming out of the woods. P spent a long time picking bits out of my fur then Debbie gave me ice cream, it was a good day.