If you don’t like dogs you’d better skip this blog (it’s mostly photos anyway and I can’t claim any credit for them as they were taken by a guy we met in the park and was super keen to take these and many more photos of our pups). lf you do skip it, you will…
Category: Dogs
Retirement and a weekend away from the pups
As you will no doubt be aware, travel, or rather the lack of it, has featured constantly in these blogs, if that is not some kind of oxymoron. At the heart of the matter is the fact that we used to travel quite a lot, that we thought, before we retired, that we would do…
Dog poo and retirement
The things that become important to you when you are retired. I’m pretty sure that our retirement routine, as I’ve told you, means that the pups get two walks a day. From an exercise point of view this sounds pretty good for me as well, of course, for them. Given I’ve got two diabetes and…
A dog’s life in retirement
A friend sent me the amusing list below via Facebook. I don’t know who the author is but it reminded me of something and then I turned round from reading it and there they – the pups – were. I took the photo (right) just to prove it. I told my friend I thought we…
Retirement : A dog’s life?
How fragile life can be, you potter along complaining about life (and retirement) and something happens to bring you up short. I wrote a blog a while ago asking the question should a person/s get a dog or even two dogs when they retire? With hindsight the answer, or at least one version of it,…
Happy birthday, pups : AKA Should you get a dog when you retire?
Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday dear puppies (if that is what you still are now you are one year old), happy birthday to you. Yes, today is the pup’s birthday which means we’ve had them for six weeks less than one year. As we took them home when they were six weeks old. Not…
Another balls up
Another blog in the series about cognitive decline in retirement. OK, agreed, getting out of the car wash while it was mid cycle is up there with the things idiots do but this episode also deserves some consideration for ‘most stupid’ prize. It also is worthy of the prize for shortest lived doggy toy. It…
Puppies : We need a mantra
Is this retirement? Not quite what I thought it would be. We need a rousing exhortation or at least a comforting mantra – the darkest hour is just before the dawn. Will that do? I would say, if this isn’t the darkest hour, then we’re in for a very long night. We are not having…
My dogs can swim and eat vomit
The following is what was on my phone when I looked at it next day. It’s the ‘transcript’ of the text ‘conversation’ between my daughter and I when she found out from her mother that there had been a bit of a drama with the doggies. It made me smile, which is good, because jumping,…