It HAS stopped raining!

Good gracious, its stopped raining!  The sun came out!  Time to take them out for a long walk again, besides they need bread so its into Membury we go.

I'm ready and waiting!  People take so long.  They have to change their shoes, find a shopping bag, decide whether to take a coat or not.... and then she cant remember where she put the camera, honestly its almost never ending!  Why they cant just get up and go, like me,  I will never understand.

Really all they have to do is get their priorities right, grab my lead and a bag of treats .....

People just  make things complicated!

 This is the road to Membury.  Its just wide enough for the car.  Mum keeps her eyes shut .. Dad has to drive.  Good job we walked this time cos there was a pony and trap coming down!

There is a little stream running alongside the road which must make it even more interesting to drive down.

In fact, if you look close you will see where one of these stripey posts thingies has been knocked over the stream into th house.

This is where I have my paddle and get a drink.  The water is cold and it tickles my toes cos its running downhill rather fast.

I was a bit nervous first time, cos its a jump down off the wall to the water, but it was hot and I was thirsty so I jumped ... once I got the hang of it I had to go in every time we went past.

Well, it was a lovely walk and I even had half Mum's ice-cream ... and the lady from the shop always comes out with a biscuit ....


We had a lovely holiday, rain or no rain, and we are going to come back again.  I shall look forward to that.

Escaping Neighbours!

There are the neighbours.  There are a lot of baby lambs in there.  They dont have a lot of sense, you know, lambs, but their mum's are quite crafty.  There was one who just would not stay in the field.  It escaped - and its two babies followed it - and we found it half way down our drive.  Me and my Dad soon sorted them out.  Chased them back into their field and shut the gate.

Would you believe they did it again!  But we showed 'em .... back they went.  That sheep-mum got quite annoyed with us and came back and head-butted the gate a few time!

Its Not Stopped Raining!

Its been raining all week, but we really dont mind all that much.  The folks have their boots and macs so its not stopped us going out.  Yesterday we went to Lyme Regis.  I didn't like it much as it was raining hard and there were just too many people about.  Mind you, the pasties were nice.

In fact, I saw a bit of a lady's pasty drop onto the ground.  I nearly toppled Mum over in an attempt to grab it, but one of those dratted seagulls got there first.  Snatched it from right in front of my nose!  The cheek of it.  Mum said they are pirates.  In fact there was a large sign which said 'Please dont feed the seagulls'.  Huh, they are quite capable of feeding themselves, if you ask me.

We didn't stop long cos it was raining very hard and I dont like hard rain, so we went back to our cottage.

Sunny Sunday

Sunday was warm and sunny, so the first thing I did was to take Mum out to find the nearest footpath.  We didn't have far to go, just about 100 yards from Woodpecker Cottage, is a lovely place for me to stretch my legs.  Bet you can hardly see me in this pic as I was off so fast the camera click just couldn't keep up.

Did you spot me?  That dot in the distance is me.  This one is easier - its me nearly back again!

Mum was wittering on about wild flowers, but I was more intested in an intriguing smell....... its not often that I cant identify a smell right away.  Dad says my nose will never go rusty.

Devon grass tastes different, so I have to sample a bit here and there.

I was happily grazing away, giving Mum time to catch up to me (she's terrible slow going uphill, you know, and I have to hang around until she makes it!).  So there I was minding my own business when there was this noise ....

... from the field behind me ...

Baaaaaa Baaaaaaaaaaaaaa


I looked over my shoulder    ...........................

... and shot four foot back in a bit of a hurry.

I honestly dont mind watching them from respectable distance ....

... but, really, it was time for her to take me home - when she managed to stop laughing, of course, honestly some people need to get their sense of humour in order .....

... and later I walked them all the way into Membury along the lane - they call them 'roads' , you know, but Mum says they are more like footpaths with a bit of tarmac thrown down as Dad has had to flip the side mirrors flat to the sides to the car to get through without taking half the hedge along too.  Now that was a long walk and quite tired them out - I, of course, was ready to go again!  Still it was a two-poo-and-a-paddle walk, and therefore quite satisfactory for one day.

Off to the Country ..

They turfed me off the bed at 7.30 on Friday, which I thought was a bit over-enthusiastic of them until I realised that the time had come - we were going on holiday!  Thank goodness for the new wheels - there was room for two of my beds, plus their boots, which meant I could stretch out, roll over, and generally make myself comfortable for the long trip.

We stopped just about every hour so I could have a stroll.  They wanted me to wee, but I wasn't about to do that - a Lady does NOT wee in public.  Mum got a bit anxious, but Dad said "Callie will wee when she is ready".  Right on, Dad.

In one of the places we stopped there was a wonderful smell coming out of a van with a window.  There was a man inside cooking sausages - big long fat sausages.  Mum got one in a bread roll - with ketchup.  I just love sausages in a roll with ketchup so I helped Mum eat her's.  After all, it was much too big for her to eat all by herself.  Dad had a massive beefburger in a roll, so I helped him out too.  Good stop that, will watch out for that place on the way back.

This is the front of the cottage we are staying in.  Its called Woodpecker Cottage.  This morning, from the bedroom window (which goes all the way down to the floor so we have lots of view) we watched a Greater Spotted Woodpecker tapping his way up and down the fence posts of the field next door.  Its real country here.

In the next cottage there are four dogs.  They will have to walk past our back gate to get to the field behind or the little car park, so I thought I would sit here and wait for them.

Its only neighbourly, after all, to say hello.

Its been such a busy day.  I'll just sit here until Dad gets my dinner up, and after that its definitely time for bed.  Tomorrow promises to be most interesting so I will need some sleep if I am to stay on top of the game - and make sure the folks get enough exercise.