We’ve had our dogs for 13 year [see above]. We got them when they were 6 weeks old and we had only been retired 6 weeks not what Mrs Summerhouse had in mind for our retirement she thought we were going to travel the world and then I showed up with two fluffy bundles and…
Category: Dogs
Puppies into doggies. Ahh, cute, well no
I hate bloody fireworks. Why do they have to make a noise? Isn’t it enough for people to see the pretty lights without the bloody bangs? We had a terrible night with our dogs, one dog particularly. He spent the night or most of it in bed with us, lying on Mrs Summerhouse’s pillow while…
Retirement blog : a gardening edition
One of the activities that we retired people enjoy (some of us anyway) is gardening. Admittedly these photos (mostly of the decking area) are both taken by Mrs Summerhouse and it’s mostly her efforts that have produced this floral extravaganza, but I’ll take the credit for using these nice images in this Friday retirement blog….
Dogs and back in time
Retro retirement blog number 19 from 2013. I remember that the friends who we mentioned in this blog felt we had grossly misrepresented their input / advice and reading it again and recalling the visit they were probably right. If I wrote this blog today it would have a very different flavour to it. We’ve…
So much to give
Number 13 in my series of retro retirement blogs. Exhumed from the year 2013 and a very early version of a theme that was to endure, namely our retirement experiences with our dogs. It got much better as we all went along. I apologise for having two retro retirement blogs this week. It was a…
Dogs and retirement blog
Retirement retro blog number 10 in this retirement blogs revisited series. I’ve been writing quite a bit about our dogs and the difficulties of traveling abroad with them in tow. So it’s appropriate to go back to 2013 and look at how it all started, this dog-owning part of our life. Little did we know….
Retirement blog – the things you do when you’re getting on a bit
It’s alright she won’t go in, she’s too intelligent. There’s no way she’ll go in, she’s far too sensible. OMG she’s gone in. These thoughts went through my head just as we watched Millie, our intelligent collie jump into the torrential stream to retrieve her ball that was bobbing around enticingly in a whirlpool, where…
Retirement blog : retired couple meet people in the park
Why would you not, you ask? Before we had dogs my idea of a social interaction in the park would be something along the lines of, 1. Pass person (if they can’t be avoided), 2. Put head down, avoid eye contact. 3. Look at ground and 4. Grimace (you certainly couldn’t call it a smile,…
A retirement blog about getting dogs when you retire
I recently replied to a comment on my retirement blog about the importance of planning one’s retirement – and then completely ignoring this sound advice. My commenter maybe was feeling he should have planned a bit more for his retirement. I assured him that this was not so or at least hadn’t been for me….
Retirement blog : a walk in the park
Something a little different for this Friday. Mrs Summerhouse’s photos (just taken with her phone) from our frosty walk with the dogs in one of our local parks yesterday. Last picture actually has the dogs and me in it although we seem to be walking in different directions.