As you may have read on previous blogs my new puppy is called Phoenix, this is a very appropriate name with it’s connection with rebirth and rising from the ashes.
I have for some time now been working as an ‘Associate Highly Recommended Dog Listener’ under the umbrella of the Jan Fennell Dog Listeners organisation. it has been a very fruitful collaboration but for sometime now [... continue reading 'A PURE New Beginning']
A hectic week. Saturday afternoon return to the UK following flights in excess of 24 hours. Half nine Sunday morning off to the New Forest to pick up Phoenix my new puppy (I didn’t drive). Would he still be cute? Of course, even more so.
I brought him home to meet the family including two and a half year old grandson. He settled in right [... continue reading 'Phoenix Arrives']
Here I am back home after three weeks in Australia mainly spent on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland north of Brisbane. For those of you who’ve done the trip you’ll know just how far it is and what a huge country Australia is. I went with my wife Rosemary and we visited her sister and family who moved out there almost five years ago.
The hotel we [... continue reading 'Australia']
I went to see the litter from which I was to select my new Labrador puppy, provisionally named Phoenix, when the were three weeks old. It is a really good looking litter of three bitches (one black, two yellow) and four dogs (two black, two yellow). My preference was for a black dog but I wanted the best litter member regardless of gender or colour. [... continue reading 'Phoenix the Puppy Progress Report']
For months now everything happening out there in the world and being covered in the press has been so depressing. It seems that they can only report on people such as ‘St Jade’, The Beckhams, Jordan and Peter Andre not forgetting Madonna and her divine right to adopt any child she wants because of who she is and the size of her bank balance. And [... continue reading 'Some Good News For A Change']