29TH NOVEMBER


I have a new hobby! Bird watching! Now that P has filled the containers there are hundreds of them it's just like having my own private television. I don't suppose you can see them on the tiny thumbnail but take my word for it they are there. Of course you can double click to make it bigger.

I have been getting some lovely messages so thank you to Joseph, Imogen, Eleanor, Fiona and Anon. I enjoyed hearing about Dasher and Maisie, more info please Fiona. I also liked hearing about Christmas presents Eleanor, I took P to the pet shop and sat by the Christmas stockings until she bought one. It has a little stuffed mouse head on the top which is quite fitting, I have brought a lot of mice in lately. P does give me that look when I let them go but honestly they are only small and it is my home I should be entitled to have guests! It has been pointed out that I am a bit slow posting copy but it isn't easy when you have to rely on someone else is it? I do spend a lot of my day doing engaging little things that one would think would have her rushing to the keyboard but no!! Evidently she doesn't want to get behind with her open university work BUT .......priorities P priorities!!

18th December

I am sorry to have been away so long, I had to look after a poorly Penelope for quite a while then once she was up and about again things seemed to be a mad rush getting ready for christmas. I enjoyed hearing about Dasher and Maisie, I think we would have a lot of fun if we lived near each other. You asked if I had goals to achieve.....well....in my own little world I already have world domination so that is out, I would like to be as tall as Flanagan, P's last dog, but that is unlikely.....I would like to be friends with Willow the cat but that is also unlikely, maybe just being perfect and adored is enough??

NOV 19th


Penelope and I have had a quiet few days, she has had a lot of work to do on the computer so I have had to entertain myself rather too often. I rather like the routine of our days though, it all goes something like this.

When we get up and I have had a quick whiz outside for reasons we will not discuss here it is cuddle time. We curl up on the sofa and I get stroked and petted and told what a good boy I am. This is my favourite time of the day but all too soon the computer is switched on and P reaches for her glasses. I go out to play. It isn't always easy to see what is going on next door so I climb onto King Arthure's Seat for a better view, I can keep an eye on most things from here. Then we have a walk round the village, great fun but P does stop to talk a lot. When we get home I have a doze while P pops out to shop or whatever. Another walk in the afternoon, the beach is my favourite, then I get a chewy treat to play with while P finishes her work. As soon as she takes her glasses off I know she's stopped working so I belt across the room and leap on her. As soon as she's got her breath back I find my ball and it's time to play. I can only play for a while because I like to go and watch for the children coming out of school, I know lots of them now and sometimes they come over to talk to me. We go for a last walk before it gets dark then P lights the fire. I saw the fire for the first time last week and I have to admit I was rather worried about it. Even though I now like to sit by it because of the warmth I feel safer if I take gorilla and duck with me. P and I wander out into the garden last thing because she likes to look at the stars and I need to......well, never mind about that. then off to bed. I have a lovely furry bed that once belonged to Willow but got passed on to me, I have tiger and rabbit to sleep with and once P finally puts the light out and stops reading I can go to sleep. And so, dear reader, that more or less sums up one of our quiet 'at home' days.

11th November

ANIMALS DIED IN THE WAR TOO!!

2nd November
I know that I haven't spoken to you for a while but that is because I have been trying to be good and to be honest the days when I'm good by P's standards are singularly uninteresting and leave me little to tell you about. However, every so often I have to assert my independence and this was the case last week. We took the car to the garage to have it fixed (again!!! I have no idea how it's still on the road). Anyway, whatever it was was not going to take long so we walked over to the cafe to wait. P chose a table outside and..to my disgust.....tied me to the railings until she went in to order. As you can imagine gentle readers this was more than bone and fur could stand so I chewed through the lead, went to the door, waited for the next person to go in and slipped in with them. I thought she'd be pleased to see me. She wasn't and the owner was decidedly frosty! All the while P had her cup of tea she went on and on about how the lead had cost twelve pounds and now that it had a knot in it would no longer retract. Can this honestly be something I should have to worry about???


Anyway, past and done, today is P's birthday and I am being very nice to her and a very well behaved pup......just for today.

Whoa, those cows have LONG legsThe sheep have been moved from the field at the bottom of the garden, I quite miss them. Now we have cattle and they are BIG. I went down to the bottom gate and barked as loudly as I could so that they knew I was a dog to be taken seriously, but they all came over to say hello. It was nice to make even more friends....I wonder if I could bring them inside to play tonight???...... but I was a bit put out that they were not even a tiny bit scared. When the cows followed us to the top of the garden and looked over the wall their legs seemed to have grown, I don't quite understand how that happened.


9th October

There have been times when I have given the impression that P wants everything her way????? Perhaps she is a closet control freak! By now she must have accepted that Pippin the Pup is all powerful and those who have been chosen to serve should be grateful and not carry on about the Life Decisions that I make. A chap should be allowed to smell however he wishes, take yesterday, I had wandered down to talk to the cows when I spied a little gap in the fence through to the field. My friends wanted me to go in and visit so I squeezed through and joined the herd. Even I will admit they are pretty big close to but they were very nice to me...then I heard it, frantic calling...must she always over react? Anyway it was close to teatime so I made my way back across the field when I spied it - a large steaming cow-pat - how could I resist? I rolled and rolled until I was covered then squeezed back through the hole. Give her her due she picked me up but not without muttering some pretty harsh words. I am not used to being spoken to like that!!! SHE BATHED ME!!!!

27th September
I often get the feeling that P is not always pleased when I bring my friends home to visit. I will admit that the frogs take quite a bit of persuading to go out again....and that some of the mice haven't actually left yet....but the slugs and snails have never been a problem. Well, when I brought the grass snake in last night she gave me that look, the one that has begun to un-nerve me a little. It was that look that made me get things a bit wrong. Anyway, I brought him in, put him in the middle of the floor and went to find my toy box to give him something to play with. I had just decided on noddy when I got the look, snake had 'legged' it under the sofa. P obviously thought this was a situation that needed rectifying so she lay on the floor, peering. I felt a bit guilty after all she wasn't well so I thought I'd help. I ran across the room and jumped on her back to show moral support. Do you know, I could hear the air gush out of her, I think snake heard it too because he came out all on his own. P looked as though she was having a bit of trouble getting her breath so I picked him up and took him out. We had more fun outside anyway.

7th September

When I go out in the garden in the evening I meet up with a family of hedgehogs, the little one (I have named him Spike) is my friend. When we first met he was a bit frightened and rolled up like a ball so it seemed natural to see if I could roll him along.....P put cream on my nose.....now we are the best of friends and he follows me round the garden then we sit on the step and think about the day.