Journal
Saturday – off to the frozen North
Why go to Iceland for your 30th wedding anniversary, you might ask? Well, it's a place that has interested me for years ever since I saw TV pictures of geysers and bubbling mud that emanated from the earth. Besides, we've just been to Crete and, having lived in steamy...
Puppymoon
Oscar's first night with us, almost 15 years ago, was of its time. Totally inexperienced in the language of dog, we left our poor puppy, separated from his parents and litter siblings for the first time, alone downstairs in his crate to cry all night. Actually I have...
MsCellania – May 2023
So much for good intentions. As you'll recall, I decided to update my blog with these regular digests as a way of avoiding regular apologies for not writing for such a long time. The original intention was to produce a monthly update post but I've been so busy in the...
Tuesday – Lasithi Plateau and Dikteon Cave
Disappointed with the overcast weather on Tuesday, we changed out of our swimming costumes and into sturdy(er) walking shoes for a trip to the Dikteon Cave which is, as legend has it, the birthplace of Zeus. Dikteon Andron contains striking stalactites and stalagmites...
Welcome Fergus!
I'm delighted to announce that we brought home our new puppy today. Meet Fergus, Gemswin You're In My Heart, who is a flatcoated retriever puppy and 10 weeks old tomorrow. I felt terrible parting him from his litter sister and large extended flatcoat family but it's...
Garden tulips
It's been a great year for tulips. I thought I'd share some pictures of the display in our garden planted by our @Heftys_garden. The large raised bed in the centre of our front garden is planted with a different colour display each year. The potted red tulips are...
What’s in a name?
New dog in the old life
Honestly I was in no hurry to do the puppy thing again. I've had that experience once; it was hard work and I had no desire to repeat it. Besides which, there are countless hundreds of thousands of poor, unwanted, homeless dogs in the world, failed by humans or in...