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Turbo Training

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Weekend in Brighton

always exhausting............

Its arrived

so I have spent all my savings on bike, garmin and turbo trainer and I have a custom made training plan thanks to the boys at Cycle Tec........so now all I have to do is DO IT.......Land End-John O' Groats here I come (via endless pain misery and dull chat no doubt!!!)

DuvetDay

So we all had a nice morning hanging out at Tanglefoot today whilst Mum tried to sew a New-Car bed for Spoilt Tarks.

After opening Aunty's post for her I got on with all the things I like to do to annoy Tarka whilst we are hanging out together.......

 Firstly I like to steal her toy and lie on her new Car-Bed.....

 ..........if she manages to get it back off me I take it away again and get up high on the sofa........

.......when I get bored I like to leave it just out of reach.....(she ain't allowed up on the sofa!!)....

 ......she got fed up and found some of mums wool............

 .....and got in a right tangle............

 she gets really car sick and puked up all over Mums new car on the way home from Wales and so she won't sit on the floor in the car now like she is absolutely supposed to...............

 which is really annoying!!!!!!

BEAUTIFUL DAY

So We All took Monday off from the relentless toil and hardship of our generally difficult lives to do an early morning walk in the rolling Wiltshire countryside..........

 (didn't everybody take a cheeky snow duvet-day the last few days????)

 Tarks loves the snow - could sniffing get any more exciting?????

 .....Whats THAT smell???????

Is it pheasant, deer, rabbit, hare, wild boar, giraffe, lion, elephant???? 

I dunno.............its just all very ridiculously overwhelmingly bloomin' excitin'!!!!

 gimme the snow-thing - gimme gimme - its cold and weird and smelly and I like it!!!

 Wiltshire is BEAUTIFUL!!!!

(TARKS - "nope - I dont wanna recall - there are PHEASANT down HERE!!!! - its NEARLY as intoxicating as Welsh Sheep")

I do love my mum but I wish she would stop banging on about Recall - she's got Chicken in her pocket so am going with it just for a few seconds - I will stay with her....she will give me the chicken and then I'll run off again to Get the Pheasant/rabbits/boar/giraffes- doh!!!

 It was one of The most beautiful days I can ever remember.....breathe in the Fresh Air, crunch the snow under your feet, sniff out some wildlife....!!!!!!!!!!

Low-Slung-Dobbie came home with 2 tonne weight of snow-balls attached to his armpits, beard, chin, little-tiny-cold-willy and paws. I spent half an hour defosting him - poor Dobbie!!!!

Belly Balls!!!!

when your legs are 2 inches long and your belly hangs low the snow creates a unique problem........

after a while these belly snow chugnuts get so big it is actaully quite difficult to walk.....

 luckily Dobs had his high viz fleece to keep him warm......

 Tarks and Dobs did a lot of searching about in the snow..............

 and ended up with quite a lot of it on their noses.......cute!!!!

SO me and The Sis went off to Austria last week..........

We had an absolutely fantazi time!!!!

We kicked off our hols with a nice little dinner by the riverside in Bristol on saturday night and had the most stress-free delivery direct to Neustift via Easyjet and the hotels taxi service (no travel sickness for the sis - phew!!!)

The weather was pretty challenging.......

........zero visibility and BLOODY cold!!!! Minus 37 at one point at the summit - the sister was "a little bit scared" at times but I ignored her and skiied on and she followed VERY bravely - a good technique it seems as she kept up like a trooper to make sure I didn't freeze to death.

we decided to Go with the Helmet trend (everybody is doing it!!!) and thankgoodness we did - my reluctant 200 euro spend protected me from the extreme cold and a premature closing of the chairlift barrier right on my swede by the russians)

It was so cold we had icicles in our hair - very pretty!!!!

The hotel was fab - big quiet room, under floor heating, spotlessly clean and we enjoyed the spa but even The Sis was a bit freaked out in the nakedness. I had one towel and did not know where to put it - so I kept it on my head and tried to cover up as much flesh as i could with my hands - seriously comfort-zone-stretched and completely ASTONISHED it is "completely normal" to stand out butt-naked on the street to cool off............

 We spent a whole lot of time drinking Gluwein, drinking the BEST hot chocolate I have ever tasted, playing scrabble and blokus, having very long sleeps, eating AMAZING food and it was just a great week..........

I had to abandon The Sister at Innsbruck to get home in time for work and it was a terrible journey for her back to Notts and I have come home without my luggage but despite all that am still planning to book again for next year.....

It was all absolutely "perfect"

High Viz innit

Aunty T bought D the most fantastic High-Viz top for Christmas..........He loves it coz its cosy and there is adequate willy-clearance so no unfortunate wet patches. I love it coz it covers his low-slung belly from the mud that fills our daily life - less wiping is a good thing for both of us.......

and yes - he really does glow in the dark in it - absolutely fantastic!!!!!

WE NEED DOBBIE!!!!!

There have been 156 hits on my blog since I last posted......thats a whole lot of dissapointed Dobbie fans!!!! So after much insistence I post some really quite pointless photos for your enjoyment

 cute bottom...........

 ...cute furry face 

(too furry for my liking - bring on the spring shave)

gratuitous cute face close up

AND relax everybody - Dobbie fix tended to - yikes - I promise not to leave it so long next time XXX

Happy New Year

I really was quite rubbish this new year in so many ways - but particularly with my taking-of-pictures. I blame it mostly on being properly ill and in some small part on having the worst hangover of my entire life on New Years Day.

BUT we did have fun at Bryn Melyn. We rejoyced in the gas-fueled aga and had a lovely no-greenery Bill-meal along with a quite hefty session of early-onset power ballads. Bonnie Tyler made an appearance at just 8pm and was followed by 4 hours of baton twirling, backward crabs and singing into our knitting needle + goats cheese microphones. The boys went to bed at 10pm not being able to stand a moment longer of Elaine & Barbara duets. The girls collapsed into bed at 2 minutes past midnight after a threeway redition of auld langs eye and we all went off to the beach the next morning for a blustery walk on harlech beach.

It was Tark's first ever beach walk....

....and she loved it!!!

Dobbie and I are lying in a sand dune taking deep breaths at this moment (thanks for the company dobbie - nobody else gave a monkeys)

Tiny, Tarka and I had a marvellous walk the next day whilst Dobs chilled on the sofa with Bill and rachel. Despite my advice Tarka got "introduced to sheep". Funnily enough she don't recall well when off the lead infront of a herd of sheep. You could actually see her brain short-circuiting as her body started taking up sheep-dog poses that she didn't know how to control and then had a little go at herding them off into oblivion all by herself with nobody to offer assistance. I stood in the field sweating and shaking waiting for the farmers gun to go off and after what seemed like an eternity but was probably 2 minutes she suddenly came back for no particular reason at all.....and Tiny and I agreed not to fall out about it and had a discussion about the fact she needs to be slightly more sensible in the future..........

(Tarks - performed repeated dramatic drops into the grass tussocks on the way home due to unnacustomed sheep-herding exhaustion)

But back to the high points - Bills German accent, Rachels introduction to "the inner circle", the fact that Lisa Is A Majorette!!!! - could she Be anymore Fantsatic???, power ballads, The Downton Jig-off, Mat putting up pictures and telling us about his car drama, the Plumber "Francis", The Gardener "what a lovely spaniel" and me gettin' chatted up just 4 days onto 2013 by a fine specimen of a welshman.

Happy New Year X