New painting

I started a new painting for charity a couple of weeks ago, see original picture, I had to leave it as I wasn’t sure of the colour, but I’ve seen the dog and hopefully I’ve got the colour in my mind. Watch this blog for finished work, then I’ve got a shibu to do.

Dogs and other things

Chippie & Tango

Hi there My name is Arlene and I have two collie dogs, and being a good person I wlk them twice daily, some walks are b o r i n g , and some are eventful, but most are quite normal.

The dogs are Tango who is almost ten and Chippie who is almost two, he was rescued from Wales as a puppy, and boy was he one handful, I don’t think I’ve got one intact ornament or one piece of whole fencing in the garden. I occasionally walk them on the cliff top near my home in the south coast of England, whilst walking there the other day I met a nice couple and got chatting, he put me on to this site to start a blog,  I was taking a photo of a nice yacht gong past the needles, at the same time he was, bet mine’s best <smile> his wife runs a garden business www.gardendesigner.co.uk lots of interest there too.

Daughter no 2 phoned to-day to discuss Christmas, WHAT? I’m still waiting for summer, however, instead of trying to feed the five thousand this year with daughter no. 1 and her daughters, plus various boyfriends [the daughters] they pondered going to an hotel instead and having a slap up meal and no washing up or preparation, so it puts me in a quandary, go to daughter no 1 for trad meal or no 2 ???? I’ll toss a coin on it.

I thought I’d made the garden totally dog proof, but no, that Chippie squeezed through a space widening it as he went, ran round the back, jumped up on to the veranda via the fuchsia in a pot, breaking the stems, then leaping down to get in the front garden, for what?? Lord only knows, but he had to have a stiff telling off, again. Tango looks uncomfortable as he is the personification of all things good, When Chips is naughty Tango scurries indoors peeking round the door and looking a me to let me know.

I enjoy gardening, when the weather is good, and it has been lovely, so I managed  to catch up on things, the Rudbeckia is flowering well as are the geraniums, Batchelors Buttons are going over a bit losing their freshness. I’ve planted some grasses for the first time in gravel, so we’ll see how gthey fare, no doubt Chips will use them as a piddling post at some time. 

I also do some painting check out me website www.colliepaintings.com  I’ve jsut finished a German Shepherd dog called Brodie, he lives way up in the Orkneys I’ve [hopefully] posted up a pic of him, I’m waiting for the final bid on an auction to do anothr dog, Heaven only knows what I’ll get, I do a lot for charity auctions, nice to think that something you can do gives pleasure to one person and helps out another in some way, and I’d like to think when I’m gone from this world, something I’ve done will live on in a nice way. right I think I’ve blethered on enough for to-day.Brodie