Sunday 11th August, and we find ourselves invited down to Portsmouth Harbour to catch up with a couple of friends. While Annabel heads off to relax on a leisure cruiser at Fareham Creek, I spend the day on a launch, which tends to pleasure boats broken down around The Solent. We couldn’t have asked for…

Annabel’s Christmas gift was a trip up the Shard followed by a meal out in London. With the weather set fine, and our dog charge having left us to join her owners in Cornwall, today was the perfect opportunity to catch the train from Hook and head to London. Going via Waterloo to London Bridge…

Following the party yesterday, Mymble had no idea that she was once again going to be the centre of attention as she was driven to Oakhanger to accompany Red, who we looked after before Christmas. I had been asked to take Red into the Oakhanger dog show, as her owners were busy with other activites…

My cousin who also turns 50 this year had planned a garden party to celebrate the year. From our house sit in Hook, we loaded an eager Mymble into the back of the car and decided to head down to Fareham, stopping on the way at Hinton Ampner a N.T property. We had visited Hinton…

Well the day has come, and Annabel and I know it. We will miss our two lovely Scottish Deerhounds, the castle and BurntIsland too, ( especially the bakery 🙂 )! We packed the car, and braced ourselves for a tear to two. Thankfully the weather and time permitted a last sit in the garden to…

A quick post tonight. Second week here, and second attempt to feed a snake. Having reflected on our failure of last week, this time we made sure the rat defrosted and dried more effectively, before double bagging him/her/it for a good poaching. Annabel prepared; I handled the rat. It’s surprisingly hard to identify if a…

Burntisland held it’s Highland games today, with a parade in the morning, which we’d planned to see. Sadly just after breakfast, one of our dogs came in panting heavily, so we stayed with him, and missed the parade, but we did make some of the games. Wondering down to Burntisland’s lovely open park situated just…

Part of our travelling is about finding a location to live, once we grow up that is. A few properties have perked our/mine/Annabel’s interest, so we decided to head a bit further nother and visit some. In the process we arrived in Perth, an active city on the River Tay. A lovely city, with an…

A simple day today, get the car out of the drive, and point it left. Over the rolling hills, banking curves and open expanse of the Yorkshire moors found us at Robin Hood’s Bay. We arrived to a manic carpark, with a dog that was whining in the back. We retreated back up the steep…