The Wonder Hound got a haircut

Nugget haircut

The Cast List: Nugget The Wonder Hound

How to scupper your Friday night: Leave your much-loved puppy at home with food, water, something to play with and a place to lie down and be quiet until you return. Make sure you close the dog gate behind you. Leave the house. Make sure you put alarm on correct setting and [...]

Wagg the dog: delicious treats for the hound in your life.

I always wanted a dog with the sort of name that makes you look a bit bonkers. OK, so I looked a bit bonkers long before we got the dog, but it always amused me, in a puerile sort of way, to think of someone striding across a park shouting “Doughnut” or “Slapper”. You would [...]

Festive swear words on the Christmas Countdown

 There have been a few extra bodies in our bed of late, and before you start thinking that you’ve tuned into the wrong blog and that it should be beyond the watershed, I refer to:

1. The Wonder Hound, who whined so pitifully in the night because she was cold that we brought her into [...]

Finding the Spirit of Christmas: Peace and Goodwill

It’s been nine days and I’m already feeling the pain. I refer not to the blog-a-day thing, though I have to say that is challenging. At the moment, juggling the Pocket Dictator, Wonder Hound and kamikaze Dimpled One usually means that I spend all day thinking about posting and most of the evening (after clearing [...]

The Gallery: Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness

(at least I think that’s how the poem goes…) It’s Wednesday once more, which means The Gallery. The challenge this week is The Seasons- Tara wants us to show her what we are experiencing whilst she is experiencing autumn. Sadly, I’m experiencing Autumn too. This morning the rain was pounding down on the Wet Room [...]

I have a pink one.

The DH has given authorisation for the bathroom to be remodelled. Clearly my subtle plan to complain about it every day for the last two years whilst the children and I repeatedly (and inadvertantly, I might add) bash limbs and heads on the square edges of the un-family-friendly basin, has worked. So I got the [...]