Update

After several requests for a Dobbie-Blog update recently I have finally pulled my finger out.
I would love to announce I am bringing you some groundbreaking news of parachute jumps and sky diving but no its much more pedestrian than that.......

We have been doing some reluctant early morning wake-ups.........

and some lovely lie-ins.........

and an attempt at a festive photo shoot..........

WTF is this????

WTF is that???

 am just sayin' you look a bit weird....

I don't think we should fall out about it.....

Maybe if we get the old santa hat out???

.....I just think you look better in the hat.......

Ah you've got to love Norfolk!

So apart from the fact Dobbie was The Most inconsiderate selfish noisy roomie the whole weekend we loved going back to Norfolk for the first time in years.

Lovely runs on stunning Holkham beach, cosy pints of good wine at The Hoste, several hours of Naylor-gurl hat-shopping and fab grub from the local fishmongers and butchers more-than made up for the noisy 3am "revellers" in Burnham Market (aka Butlins for posh wannabe/Chelsea tractor drivers)

4 hours journey door-to-door for me and I loved it so lets go back next year. But lets take Tarka with us - SO many birds to chase!!!!

Happiness

So I am sure we have been doing lots of really interesting stuff but all I have photos of is this sort of thing........tsk.........

New bed appreciation.............

 

New living room appreciation.........

 

...and the joy of STEALING food.....

my sister and this bunny....

...could they be soulmates????

What a lovely Naylor weekend all coming together to help give one of the most lovely women on the planet a suitable send off. She would have so approved of how we all scrubbed up so well and chatted to her friends and then sneaked off for afternoon cinema and pizza and double chocolate brownie with icecream and vowed to worry less and spend more (if we can afford it) AND make more effort to be nice to each other and more interested  in everybody else as much as we can possibly manage. Rest in peace smashing smashing Barbara. In just a handful of encounters You left a very positive little impression on my life X

Car Guilt/JOY!!!!!!!!!

So 2 years ago I was priviledged enough to enjoy driving a brand new car off the forecourt and it has caused me exactly NO stress and I hand-washed it exactly ONCE in 24 months.....

...........the lease was due this week so I dropped it off at the Ford garage and just went and picked up a brand spanking new one.

Thank The Lord that Salesman-Sam was so happy to get my business that he didn't even take a glance at the state I left it in - coated in dog hair, littered with pastry-lunch-on-the-run-debris, peppered with in-a-rush-in-Waitrose-parking-dents and scratches, boot full of bike-related scratches and dents..........I felt really deeply ashamed leaving it with him - but I think deep down he knows something that I don't...so I continue to pay out a considerable amount each month to support my general slovenly car-behaviour...but really - it feels GOOD!!!!!! Vroom vroom VROOM!!!!!!!!!

Wrong-ness

So I went off to Daylesford for my foraging course and it was fantazi.

We stayed in a ridiculously gorgeous cottage only slightly marred by Dobbie projectile vomiting all over the beautiful stone bath.

To be fair I think he was still bilious after finding an interloper on his spot by the Aga at daycare last week......

 erm....me dog...you cat......

 ....this is the bit where you run off looking real scardy and I chase you looking real mean?????

.......this is so very very wrong

Adam's Farm

So we went off to Adams Farm for a MUCH overdue rendevous with Aunty Sis and had the most lovely time. I arrived to find camp completely set up which was BLISS!!!

There was a lot of this........

(Kate Humble's sheep apparently- although me thinks really a labrador dressed in sheep's clothing so enthusiastic was she about FOOD!!!)

and this.......

ITS A SHEEP!!!!!!!!!

and this............

camping dog snoozing (whilst watching sheep-television) - such fun!!!!!

and this........snoozin' together on our big bed...........

and this...........

(Dad's AMAYZING camping burner - very very pleasing to use........)

So a jolly enjoyable time was had by all - especially dobbie who took it all in his furry little stride as always.

Adam did not make an appearance (how rude) but I have his emergency phone number (just incase)

That Big Day

So the whole summer has been dominated by This happening......

 ......as for all us "Ice cream Bridesmaids"....we agreed it was the best day we ever spent.......

 and Mrs Lunt was the most happy, calm, fun-filled, beautiful bride I have ever seen......

So glad I was there at The MOST Crazy Silly Massively Happy Beautiful Day.....

And now.............RELAX!!!!!!!!!!