Happy Valentine's

Recycling piccures again Mum? How lazy!







Some of you may remember that since we got TNP for the last two years he has beed off skiiing on Valentine's day. This the first year he beed here with us and my clever peoples decided to just stay in with me, (TNP goes on holiday tomorrow instead bol).

They did do a nice meal though, I got oxtails and TNP got steak and Mum got some mushroom thing but I doesnt care about that! Mum got the food from town and TNP cooked it.

He did creamy potatoes and Mum bought a type of cauliflowerish vegetable called a brassica. TNP looked at it a bit funny but they said it tasted like a sweeter cauliflower. I did not eat any, but maybe the rabbits will get to try a little bit. It tooked me a whole hour to eat my oxtail from the butchers. Yummmm.




Mum bought her self some simple flowers too.




I hope you all has a happy Valentine's Day with the peoples you loves.

~Lickies, Ludo

Mm & M's

Dont forget Mango Minster's open for voting, You can go there using the link in my side bar and vote for meee in the Action Animals category.

It all very difficult to decide who to vote for, especially in my category cos some of my bestedt blogging friends is in there, hm, I thoughts, do I vote for Honey, Bertie, sammie and Avalon. All extreme adventure animals like i is.
So i voted in the end for an inspiring poster, I hopes you all has it easier than I did!

Also my gal Morgan and Maisie's Mum does not be so good at the moment, I wont say why cos she not posted about it herself yet, just on facebook, but I think she could do with some thoughts and well wishes. Morgan and Maisie be total cutie shelties and their Mom Imogene be super super nice and we so want her to get better soon.
http://morganinpittsburgh.blogspot.com/

They also in the too darn cute category in Mango Minster




~Lickies, Ludo

Hmm

So Mum might have accidentally deleted the last post about her birthday because whilst we were trying to do it on her new Ipad it made two copies and she deleted the non-published one. We will has to try again soon but we did get your comments.

For now I wanted to show you something else. My Grandpaw has retired and other than looking after me he doesn't do very much by way of a pass time, although he is very fond of watching the Where's-the-remote box. Mum and Grandmaw like to try and get him to do things like get exercise and fresh air and has mental stimulation. (Mum says when you has a dog sometimes you can leak doggy things into other areas of your life). Over the years Mum and Grandmaw has got Grandpaw lots of 'hobbies' that he thinks he might like to do. He used to like fishing, but he give that up many years ago and now just likes to watch others fish on the box.

He also used to like taking photos, gardening and keeping koi fish in a big pond. When Grandpawents retired and moved into their park home up in the lake district they downsized and only has a tiny garden now so he casnot do that. Mum got him a stamp collecting kit once as he always talks about how he used to collect stamps as a boy, he likes to look at them and he keeps stamps from my overseas pals crisp mas cards (thank you!), but it not require any outsideness. He got himself a big stunt kite which he used a few times but then gived it away to someone he didn't even know well (Grandpaw has quite a habit of giving away things he shouldn't to people he doesn't know very well... like a car once he apposed to give to Mum). Then he has a remote control airplane and a helicopter (TNP has the helicopter now) and so on...

This year Grandpaw thought he might like a camera for Crispmas, a fancy SLR one like he used to have before he gived it away. Mum and Grandmaw thought very hard about it and decided, given Grandpaws track record a normal digital camera (that looks like an SLR) might be best. Grandpaw was very happy. But he hasn't used it yet!

So Mum decided because we didn't get any snow and it be a nice day Grandpaw should come on a nice walk with us. We didn't get so far as we should have but at least he got out the house! You may have noticed that I tend to do things with Mum and Grandpaw a lot and some people think I hasn't got a Grandmaw cos she doesn't come. But this just cos Mum likes to try and drag Grandpaw out the house and not be a hermit and Grandmaw goes places with her friends and goes to work but if anyone asks Grandpaw to do things, he just grumbles. He really likes it when we DO go outside.

So with all that lots of ado, here Some pics of me, by Grandpaw. (oh and a couple other things, we walked along the golf course)

~ lickies, Ludo

Mum's birthday without me

Here you go, Mum bought an app for her new ipad so we can blog on it, so for Hsin-Yi's viewing pleasure here the piccures from Mum's Birthday. I know some of you already seed them and so we not gonna post the words all up again... but they went to a very nice place called Sharrow Bay on the edge of Lake Ulswater. It be a lovely old place with antiques all over the place, but it not allow dogs! TNP does spoil Mum a lot, I would loan him out but then I would not has him and I not very good at sharing! Hehe!
I thinks you can click to bigify the piccures...




Hey look, my comments came back and everything, how strange.

A trying walkies

For Mum anyways!
Last week we had a nice sunny Saturday and as usual TNP said to Mum 'Where do you want to go?' Mum doesn't really like making decisions and TNP doesn't like Mum not making them so eventually she said somewhere new and somewhere woody. We went somewhere near Wastwater lake. It started off very nice...

And just a little bit of a climb, but it be nice and sunny and pretty views and good sniffings for me. Early on we could choose between two forks in the road. Mum said 'let's follow the sun' and chose the high path. At the top we got to a stile what TNP had to carry me over and then we walked through some fields which would normally have cows in. Mum never likes these kind of fields cos they doesn't have a proper laid out path and TNP usually leads us along the cow's paths which Mum grumbles about a lot and gets left behind. She says the cows leave it all wet and muddy and make lots of holes so you can't tell where to put your feet cos the grass grows over the holes and it hurts her little leggies plus she says she casnot look at the pretty view cos she has to look at the ground all the time. I has four paw drive so I don't mind at all! Although I do mind her being so slow!

On this particular walk the frost still be on the ground and so the mud be nice and crunchy and not sinky and so Mum felt quite happy. Until we started going down hill and there more water and so it got pretty slippy. Mum put her foot on a thawed out boggy bit which sucked her shoe in and and then felt pretty unhappy when her foot got all wet and it just got worse (for her) from there. Her legs started getting tired from walking on the uneven ground and she hit a slippy bit and fell on her bum.

After her trip Mum photographed the 'so-called-path' and blamed TNP for it's existence. As you can see, I not in the piccure, I thought it best to stay out of a hysterical Mum's way.

Then it just got worse! Mum's nerves got a bit frayed,  TNP kept looking at  his map and trying to show Mum that they were going the right way and then she fell over again and dipped her camera in a mud puddle. TNP tooked it after that cos Mum started doing her scary cry/laughing and TNP got a bit distressed. He and me not like it when Mum not happy. You know she a 'Southern Softie' really not a tough northerner who beed doing walks and climbings and sporty things all her life. Anyway she only fell over one more time after that but both peoples felt pretty miserable until we spied a gate and the 'real path' back again. I love going through gates so it made me pretty happy too! Doesn't be worried about Mum though, she didn't get hurt cos she was going down hill and just fell backwards each time. TNP tried to hold her hand on some bits but Mum likes to be a scaredy-people and choose her own 'safe' looking bits to step on.

After that it got better and Mum felt a bit braver and cheered up.

A bit deeper in the woods we came across a shooting party. It be pretty exciting to me, loud bangs and men and dogs (I spotted Labradogs, springy spaniels, and some german pointers). They was all running around happy doing their jobs, some ignored me and a couple said hello, but they all wanted to find some birds! Hunting a pretty popular sport up here and it makes Mum upset because she a weirdo vegetarian (I know, right?! she gives really rubbish left overs) the hunters buy lots of baby chick pheasants and put them in the woods and feed them and then come out and shoot them all. But she says at least they do get eaten and get to live naturalish lives, better than poor battery hens.

We carried on walking until TNP's may pointed out a ford, not a car, but water going across the path. TNP skipped over some stones...

Mum didn't thing that seemed like a good idea, so she walked along the stream a bit and found a little log bridge thing. She felt very proud of herself for getting across on her own steam. Of course, I just walked right through.

To end the walk on a happy ending, just as we left the woods, 3 pheasants went strolling past us way higher than the shooting party. Go Pheasants! (I doesn't like pheasant, or else I might be saying something different, hehe!)

And now lastly, For True colours... (sorry it not a thursday) Celestial blue and primrose yellow!

Oh, and me, going home.

With some of the woods in my tail for keepsakes.

~lickies, Ludo (The adventurer!)