Dog walker

Had   a busy week this week mostly mending garden fences, for the third time Chips has pulled the willow trellis apart for the third time. , well I suppose it keeps me busy.

I went to a dog show on Sunday in Essex, got up 4.30 am travelled 120 miles, didn’t do much good, but then when you’re too lazy to train the dog any more, how can you, I enjoyed the day, meeting up with old friends and having a chat, left around 4 pm got hom 6.30, boy was I tired. Tango had on his nosy head in the ring, and didn’t perform well.  That’s the last show I’ll be enteri ng, well this year anyway, I’ve got a couple of judging appointments in October, so I’ll at least have control over what happens in the ring.

Went for a nice walk on the beach to-day, now that the grockles, that’s holiday makers, have gone we are actually allowed on the beach with our dogs, it was fun and they loved it, the weather was quite nice., it made a difference to the usual sports field.

it looks as though summer, such as it was, is over, the swallows and martins are gone, and the blackbirds have returned, saw a nice skein of geese over the marshes last week, and the blackberries are turning into little nobs. There are lots of sloe berries on the blackthorn bush, I toyed with the idea of gathering them and having a go at making sloe gin, but nah, I don’t drink anyway, so why all the hassle, read how to make it though, you either have to wait till they get frost on the berries, or put them in the freezer, split a bottle of gin into two bottles and fill them with berries and sugar and water, they must be shook and turned each day, but apparently it’s a nice liquer.

I thought I saw what was a rare yellow butterfly , but it wasn’t, t was a common or garden clouded yellow, not a Bergers. bang goes my mention in some paper or other.

I’ve only just noticed that there aren’t many earwigs around, in fact I haven’t seen any for a long time, plenty of slugs though, my resident hedgehog isn’t making much inroad into eliminating them.

Decided to go to a hotel with daughter no 2 at \christmas, then pop into daughter no one on the way home, Boxing day daughter no 2 is having us all for a buffet on boxing day.

I should have gone to dancing club this evening but too tired, will have an early night.

tags, dogs,walks, beach, summer, swallows, butterflies, yachts on solent,piper and dancer, christmas.