Abi & Izzy - the next 5 years

So after all the emotion of the past few weeks it feels like this week has brought some peace. It's been half term and while I worked all week, the girls have been variously doing the things they love interspersed with some healthy down time. Izzy managed to get out on her bike for a day's off-roading, as well as heading off to Bristol with her friend Keira - scarier for me than her it seems! Abi of course has spent most of the week at the stables, making the most of the last days of having daylight before we get to the dark days of winter. We have had a number of biblical storms this week and so it's been nice to get out while the sun has been shining. Somerset is a county of big skies so as soon as the weather clears it's always magical - and to think it took us this long to find our way back here! Betty has been continuing to make new friends, and on Saturday I took her and her best friend Rufus out on my own for a walk. The original plan had been to take them early ...

Best of friends, right to the end Ahhh, where to start? How to share the last few weeks where I haven't had the energy to post as there has been so much happening, but so few words needed to say how we all feel. I try and post on a Sunday, otherwise the week gets away from me, but I missed this and by the time I had the chance to put pen to paper on what I might have said, our world had turned upside down and all of that seemed irrelevant.  2 weeks ago we started normally - I walked and fed the dogs and then set off for London. We'd had a lovely afternoon the day before - over at Mum and Dad's with Amanda and family. The weather was glorious and so we all sat outside while the dogs bombed around - all 6 of them - while we had tea and cake and chatted. Laurie was feeling a bit under the weather and the girls were joking he had Corona, even though he had tested negative beforehand. Turns out they were bang on the mark as on Monday he tested positive, as did Amanda. They phone...

Trapped inside so just having a  look outside via the windowsill I can't start every blog banging on about how busy things are, so this week I'm going to try and focus on something different.  This weekend we have mainly been trying to keep our hooligan pupster calm as she was spayed n Wednesday and apparently needs to send 10 days (10 days!!!!) "going for short lead walks, not running or jumping and resting as much as possible".... Hmmm. so, how are we doing? Not that well! We brought her home on Wednesday evening and to start with it was heart-breaking, She was still very dozy from the anaesthetic but refused to just lie down and sleep it off. We might have known at this point it would be difficult. The only place she would settle was outside on the lawn so I ended up getting a blanket and sitting with her outside despite it being cold and looking like rain.  Once I finally got her inside (I had to carry her), she then swayed about until she fell over. I managed to ...