puppy pals

We took Penny (on the left top picture) to meet a friends 5 month old puppy, Ruby, this week, as you can see, after 3 hours of this sort of behavior and tearing round and round the garden, they wore each other out. Penny is a cockapoo puppy and is part cocker spaniel and part toy poodle which explains her fondness for standing up on her 2 back legs a lot! Ruby is part cavalier king charles spaniel, part pomeranian, part jack russell and obviously thought anything Penny could do she could do as well.

Plumb tuckered out!

The puppy could and still can do this with cute panache but I alas cannot. I consider myself to be "recovering from" rather than "suffering from" cfs/me and often overstretch myself just to try for a while to keep up with the fast pace of others around me, it doesn't last long and I am soon put in my place and have to rest up (no choice in the matter). The house is a mess and needs a good old fashioned "bottoming out" but that will have to wait, in the meantime I can make lists. Truth be told I could make lists for England! and then lose them again in all the clutter! lol So today I am making lists, shopping lists (trying to keep that one very small, still getting over the shock of soya mince doubling in price!), his and hers lists for jobs around the house, gardening list, wish lists, reality lists! Even if I only manage to cross one thing of my lists it will be an achievement and mean I am going in the right direction again.

Puppys first year!

It's was our puppys first birthday yesterday! She celebrated with a charity shop stuffed fimble toy (doubt it will last the week! don't worry though i do check it's condition several times a day for safety), a new tug toy and a pigs ear. How quickly that went by, and how she has grown. Her coat is just beginning to grow back towards the typical cockapoo teddybear like appearance after a very close clip to get rid of some tangles. Regular brushing and trips to the groomer should stop the tangles but it isn't cheap, however this cuddly pooch is definately worth it.