Glorious Grange

So we all went off and had the most lovely week in Glorious Grange-over-Sands.
Great location, Great Accomodation, Great food (as always) Great bike rides, Great pub lunch, not a bad week at all at work and lots of Doggie-based fun, sniffs and cuddles.

All the facial expressions below are quite representative of the week........

 Dad - "when are we going back to the butchers?"

Mum - "Yes Dear - Dobbie is adorable isn't he?"

Dobbie - "Yep - I'm adorable - REALLY scarily cute"

George - "erm - did Dad something about The Butchers?????"

Beautiful Bala

 So I went off to Bala for the most spectacular snowy walks this weekend.

 Tarka learnt how to do ladder stiles and how to negotiate very deep snow and very slippy ice.

We made it up The Arenig despite drifts up to our thighs and enjoyed a well deserved ham and cheese sandwich at the top.

We set off to do Cadre Idris but made the right decision to turn back half way up when we noticed the only footprints in the snow had full-on spikes on them.

 We were very dissapointed but sure we made the right decision after we saw the warden had posted this sign in the carpark after we set off!!!

Good memories of my favourite picture of me and Amber ? pretty much in exactly the same place??? 

 The most fantastic weekend :-)))

Where's Dobbie???

So Dobbie's carry bags have arrived......

But he is still living-it-up in Notts so I put Teddy in it to make me feel better

 am not sure teddy approves - infact he looks like he is being strangled

...and he wasn't made for the sling

But I am sure dobbie will love it!!!!

Skiing Again!!!

So I went off to La Plagne for another little bit of skiing last week....... 

....with some of my most favourite people.....

 Beers on the first night 

(we got the second best snow-week in 5 years - so we were VERY excited)

 Even whilst sat down completely safe drinking lager on a very stable bench with zero risk of slipping Tiny was fully prepared with her safety aparatus

 ....whilst Me and Bill styled it out risking severe head injury at any minute......

 The Girls - very happy on a nice "crusey blue" completely unaware we about to have to Pole-It for a good 2 miles to get to the bar at the bottom......it was good for the bingo wings tho'

The Most Amazing Lisa (My New Best Friend) bought a fantazi new coat and coped very well with hangin out with her boyfriends weird friends. I will always treasure the memory of dancin' Gangnam Style outside the loo whilst Bill had a poop.......

Mother Mary/The Dalia Lamer/Mother Theresa KICKED ASS on the slopes - booyakasha Mary-Mooster - not only are you the most tolerant person in the world and the best skier of the group (no small thing) BUT you looked NASTY on the slopes - I know my leather-ette H&M NO TOPSHOP trousers were sic-bad but you won (at absolutely everything)

As for me - my skiing was RUBBISH - I had fear all week that I might break something.....not helped by inconsiderate-types falling over and breaking stuff right infront of me and spoiling my day.

The Whole Chalet experience was pretty unpleasant - I think we all forgot how middle aged we are - we underestimated the importance of proper coffee and ground pepper which caused much umbrage and we got served inedible food tds...check it out - ugh!!!!!

BUT - despite that it was a great week

Bring on next year for the 50th's - but lets just make sure we have a cafetiere

Where's Dobbie?

Tiny couldn't find Tarks this morning after she came out the shower - until she looked on my bed - we are all missing Dobbie!!!

Hard Surfacing

So Dobs is up in Nottingham having a really "hard" time........the footstool has been positioned at just the right distance for optimum warming without risking George-style brain-frying. Apparently the fire was on Max all day till Mum came home and put a stop to all the Dobbie-comfort madness.

Stay Firm Mum - when that little tiny ridiculously cute needy face is lookin' at you 24/7 you need to be Strong - its not ALL about Dobbie and increasing your carbon footprint by a zillion times just because you have a unbelievably cute dog is NOT a good defence for world ruination

Calm Down!

So life at Tanglefoot has been absolutely lovely. Its not that we had more fun without Miss Tiny - it would have been much better if she was here - but we just had lots of planned time off for walks and cuddles - which is a luxury we all very much appreciated. 

There was a little bit of everybody-in-bed-together-action given the fact that we all had to get up with Tarks at 6.30am and needed to try to not wake up the whole house...it looks more fun than it was - Dobs is so good at just relaxing - Tarks was just a little pain in the ass - "I wanna join in - but seriously are we Just gonna Lie here???? Let DO something... Get Up Get Up Everybody!!!

Irritating in the extreme at 06.30 hours - Calm Down!!!!!

 after some long walks and big dinners she did settle down at - George tried to show her the way when it comes to chillin'

 "yep just lie down and snooze and think of nice things - like lying down and snoozing - its self propogating - you get me????"

 Dobs of course is an expert at all things chillin & cuddlin'

He has now been taken off to Notts till Easter. 

I asked Him if He was gonna miss Me and He just showed me The Paw

Be Good My Little Man XXX