Her Name is Lola

Her name is Lola
She was a Show Girl........

Or in this case she was a young black greyhound wearing a rather superb chunky-knit sweater; turtle neck, cabling, stripes and toasty-warm thickness. She looked very well in it, and we all had to make a fuss of her.

Meanwhile, do you realise this blog has nearly been running 2 years. I first posted on 18th November 2006, when I was a very young girlie, so Tuesday will be a kind of Birthday. (Dad , if you're listening, you know that Birthday cake translates as "raw pork ribs" in Westie-lingo.)

In the sleepy bungalow suburb of Hastings where Pud-Lady, Stamp-Man and T-fer live, nothing normally happens worth reporting. A text from T-fer today, though reads...

"Who said it was boring here? 6pm Tuesday, blue flashing lights galore outside our house. 3 fire engines, 2 ambulances, 5 cop cars and one car on its side. Chopping off doors, boot, roof etc. 5 people extracted. It was going up our road and clipped the front wheel / wing of my Espace, crossed road and ended up on its side. My car has damaged front wing and bent suspension, so it's the joys of an insurance claim for me. Happy Days. T"

It's all go!
Hope you get it all sorted, T-fer. At least there shouldn't be any doubt about whether there was an incident number!

Deefski

Lola, India and Bacchus

Finally it rains, after a run of hot sunny (but breezy) days. This seems to send all the normal dog owners scurrying for cover, so we meet precisely nobody out on our dog walk.

Dad and Mum have more luck out after supper, assessing gardens for "Gardening for Wildlife", and come home smelling strongly of Creek and even more strongly of Lhasa Apso. They were down by the creek at a garden and welcomed enthusiastically by Lola (She was a show girl), India and Bacchus.

The lady, unusually, got the "Deefer" thing straight away. Most people look at Mum or Dad a bit strangely, and try out pronounciations around "Diva" just in case "we" are saying it wrongly. Not this lady - she was straight in with "Ah... as in "D" for Dog ?"

That's the garden assessing all done for 2008. Now just one village to go in Village of the Year (Environmental Action), and we can have the undivided attention of Mum and Dad back!

Deefski