Those are magic words in our house. At the sound of those words (99% of the time anyway!) two dogs jump up from their bed or sofa of choice and make their way to the back door. Those words kick off the start of the bedtime routine. It took us some time to put together…

I had a little look on the t’interwebs today – something on the radio referenced a reduced sporting calendar and it made me wonder. And yep there it was – last New Years Day, Mohican Ennis ran at Swindon as the black beauty in blue at trap 2 and came second. Mohican Kingsley didn’t race…

This was Sam and Beas first Christmas in a house, with a family. I don’t count any Christmas days before that as I doubt there was a difference between that and any other day for them. That cannot be said for a Newbury Christmas! There were Christmas decorations to represent them on the tree (a…

Being British I don’t celebrate thanksgiving – although a holiday based on Turkey and pumpkin sounds pretty amazing to be. It does represent a nice opportunity to consider things we are thankful for, especially considering the strangeness of 2020 as a year. Joe. I am always thankful for Joe. He makes great tea, takes the…

That’s what my husband calls me anyway. He is of the view that when they are curled up with him in the living room, they are doing so with an ear and an eye on the doorway, just waiting for me to appear. It’s very unlikely that I can walk into the room unnoticed –…

It’s incredibly cheesy and I need to hand my rock card in at the door but I was musing the Westlife classic “Flying without Wings” as it was on the radio the other day (Bea likes Magic as a station) and a lyric stuck with me – “it’s the little things that only I know,…

Elizabeth. Queen Elizabeth. Queen Bea. You are undisputedly the Alpha female (second only to me of course!), the leader of the pair, the one Sam looks to for confidence and guidance and support. But I see you. Slowly I am starting to see you. You started out here like you owned the place. A Queen…

I wonder sometimes how the days of your life were spent. Was every day the same, broken up only by food and a short kennel break? Was a race the highlight of your week as something happened, something you had been made to work towards, something you tried so hard at to please people in…

Firstly, let’s clarify that I’m not questioning the sentiment of a happy birthday for Bea, it’s a question of whether her birthday is today or in 2 weeks time. Records are a bit contradictory, so we are saying our Queen, like her namesake Queen Elizabeth, can have two birthdays as well. Whilst I acknowledge that…

This used to be bliss – total peace and quiet. This no longer means that. It now means that I start looking to see what the not so little monkeys are up to. One of the things that you find on the internet in the rabbit hole (not intentional!) of googling greyhounds is that they…