Hello everyone,



It's me again, last time I was here I was talking about Christmas and I mentioned going to see Nanny and Grandad later in the holidays, well we had a quiet day after everyone went home, then we packed the car up and went to Margate, that's where nanny and Grandad live. Nanny and Grandad have a bungalow like Mummy and Daddy's (this is a house without stairs, which is great because I'm not allowed up stairs), but nanny and Grandad's bungalow is near the beach!



I'd seen the beach before, but I'd forgotten how much fun it can be, big areas of brown stuff called sand, which comes in soft stuff which gets up your nose and sort explodes when you pounce on it and hard wet stuff which is great for running really fast on. At the end of the sand there are sometimes rocks, but eventually there is always this huge wet bit (Mummy and Daddy call this wet bit the sea). I'm really not keen on the wet bit, I've run through it playing with some friends, but unless there is a reason to be in their why does every one think its fun to get wet all over. I don't even like the rain when it's really heavy. Some doggies just run in and lie down in it! Why! every time I put my paws in there its freezing.



The beach however, is great fun it is full of all sorts of really interesting doggie things to play with, rocks, old shoes, discarded balls, dead fish, you get the idea. the smellier the better for me. Mummy particularly thinks this is horrid, but Daddy doesn't seem to mind too much, which is strange really, as all this excitement and the dead fish particularly can upset my tummy and Daddy does all of the clearing up. He must really love me.



We spent three days at Nanny and Grandad's and I had a lovely time, my favorite moment though was on the first night we were there all Daddy's family came over for dinner they brought with them Oliver who is Daddy's four year old great nephew. Now Oliver is not really very keen on doggies normally, but he seems to like me a lot, you see I can be a little bit picky about my food, particularly if I think there is something better on offer (being something Mummy and Daddy might be eating). I didn't eat my dinner that first night at Nanny and Grandad's as I didn't want to spoil my appetite for any leftovers that may be on offer. However, they are such a hungry mob of people that there wasn't any thing left for me, so they said. I tried sulking but still no tit bits, Oliver however took pity on me and hand fed me my dinner from my bowl.



Firstly Oliver was putting the pieces on the floor in front of me, but as we both got used to the idea he was handing me the bits and I was taking them from his fingers, much more dignified than having to stick my nose in the bowl and help myself, you see I was born to be pampered. After dinner I went into the hall where my bed was and laid down quietly, but I couldn't go off to sleep because of all the noise coming from the dining room, but my friend Oliver came to my rescue again, seeing I was tucked up in my bed he assumed that I was waiting for a story before I went to sleepies, so he went and got one of his favorite books and read me a story. Now Nanny has since told me that Oliver can't read, but he sat along side my bed cross legged with his book and told me a story that made perfect sense to me, he was turning the pages and everything, so I'm not convinced that Nanny has got that not reading bit right. Anyway it worked because I drifted off to sleep while he was still telling me the story.

We had a lovely few days at Margate, then on New Years Eve we all packed the car up again and went of to see Gary Sharron and Boris! in Cambridge for a few days, you remember Boris he's my Hunky doggie friend. Sorry no pictures this time, but we will have some from the trip to see Boris, he taught me how to ditch jump. Really exciting.

Write again soon, lots of love.

Becka x

Didn't we have fun!

Hi everyone,



Well Christmas is over, when does it happen again, it was great! It started out very quietly with just Mummy and Daddy on the big day, we had a very nice walk in the morning then had something called smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast. Not sure what the eggs were, but Daddy sneaked me some of the smoked salmon, Wow how good was that! Mummy and Daddy also had something called Champagne with theirs but I wasn't allowed any of that, apparently I'm too young (I probably would have swapped it for more of that smoked salmon stuff though). Later in the day we had presents, apparently these were from Father Christmas, but Mummy and Daddy seem to know what was in all of mine, perhaps he's a friend of theirs, nice man though, he brought loads of stuff to our house.


The next day we had all the family come over, my sisters Natalie and Caroline with their boy friends and my brother Russell with his son Jake. Jake is my favorite, you see he is only three and is usually to be found clutching a cocktail sausage or something equally tasty. I discovered in the summer when we had a party for Caroline, that if you follow these little people around patiently they either drop the tasty stuff on the floor, so you can snaffle it, or they just feed it to you anyway. You have to be particularly careful when taking food of the little people because they scare easily and if you scare them then they stop feeding you and one of the big people will shout at you. I worked this out ages ago and I'm very gentle so I get lots of stuff from Jake that Mummy and Daddy don't know about.


During all of the following and hoovering up of the buffet (seems a buffet is where the table gets covered in food and everyone helps themselves, get your Mummy and Daddy's to try this you will love it) we had even more pressies seems Father Christmas got confused and delivered things all over the place. This Father Christmas chap must be very busy and a really nice man because he brought me even more on the second day than he did on the first. I'm still chewing my way through treats and toys now and as for the pressies he left for everyone else it was amazing how much stuff there was. I did disgrace myself a little bit though, you see not only does Jake drop tasty stuff on the floor, but he also left some toy cars around and a metal VW Beetle was just too good to resist, trouble was it made a big crack! as the roof collapsed. Jake didn't seem too worried as you can see from the picture he was happy with something called chocolate, seems I'm not allowed that either as its bad for me. Mummy and Daddy were just a wee bit stern rather than really upset, so it couldn't have been too bad.




As you can see in the last photograph I was watching very carefully to make sure I didn't miss anything whilst all the pressies were being opened. I'll write again soon, a day or so after all the pressies and everyone had gone home again, we went to see Daddy's, Mummy and Daddy apparently they are my Nanny and Granddad, I'm still not entirely clear how this works, but they are the ones who like airports remember? Well they have a beach which is very exiting. I'll tell you all about it next time.

Lots of love and Mummy and Daddy said to say Happy New Year, whats a year?



Becka X

What's in a name?

Hi every one,

Its nearly Christmas and at some stage over the holiday I'm going to see my friend Boris, he lives with his Mummy and Daddy close to Cambridge, he is a Ridgeback and Mastiff cross, a real hunk! This is us the last time I went to visit him, now you may be wondering why I asked the question 'Whats in a Name' well I don't understand, that I know Mummy and Daddy as Mummy and Daddy, but Boris know them as Lesley and Paul, weird why is that? Likewise Boris knows his Mummy and Daddy as Mummy and Daddy but I know them as Sharon and Gary, why do Mummy's and Daddy's have two names. I'm confused.

The real reason for the question though is, when we are all together, why does our two names cause so much laughter amongst our Mummy's and Daddy's and all their friends, what is funny about two dogs called Boris, Becka can anyone tell me. I think its something to do with Sharon being a Wimbledon tennis line judge, but as I don't know what tennis is I'm only guessing.

Boris' Mummy and Daddy are different from mine, you see he is allowed to sleep on the furniture at home, probably because he is so big he sort of sleeps where he wants, but my Mummy and Daddy have, on the other hand, banned me from all the furniture and beds in the house. When I last visited Boris, however I discovered the delights of the sofa and despite the fact that his Mummy and Daddy can't move him off his favorite spot on the couch, he was willing to give it up for me, thats real Girl Power! That's my bed that he curled up on below me, I think this is where I should be, but Mummy and Daddy disagree, so once I got home it was back to the bed on the floor. I'm really looking forward to going to see Boris again!

We are preparing for Christmas at home, we have a big tree in the lounge! I sort of remember this from last year, doesn't smell much like a tree though, at least not like any of the trees outside. Father Christmas is coming again this year, I remember him from last year although I never got to meet him he brought me lot's of nice pressies, chewy things, toys and some really tasty treats. Apparently I have to have been a good girl or I don't get pressies, and you will remember I did chew big lumps out of the kitchen a little while ago, but we had some more snow recently (remember I told you about snow) and Mummy and Daddy like to watch me play in the snow so I may have redeemed myself. I think I have, Mummy and Daddy seem to have very short memories when I'm naughty, which is lucky. I'll let you know what I get for Christmas in the New Year. Hope you all have a super time I know we will Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

Love Becka XXXX

Question?

Hi everyone,

Its me again, I have a question, whats 'engaged'? Mummy and Daddy got one whilst they were away in Cardiff (at that Millennium Stadium place) and they have been really happy ever since. I've been chewing big lumps out of the kitchen and except for one telling off I've almost been getting away with it!

Can anyone tell me where I can get some more 'Engaged' from, it seems to make them very happy and I might need it in the future, always good to be prepared.

Please let me know.

Love

Becka xx

Baby Sitting

Hi Everybody,

Well I had an eventful weekend, Mummy and Daddy went away for the weekend and I had to look after Natalie and Gregg whilst they were gone. I don't know where it is but Mummy and Daddy went to the Millennium Stadium to watch the Welsh Rugby team play Argentina. They took some pictures to show me, but apart from lots of grass to run around on and big men to chase after, it didn't look like much fun to me, I can do that at home. Still each to their own, I've posted a couple of the pictures to see if it appeals to you, the flames look a bit scary though.

Anyway back to looking after Natalie and Gregg, the first I had to do was to introduce them to Sheila and Graham next door, which Gregg seemed to understand, but Natalie was not impressed with, she told me off and I had to stay in my bed for a while once I got home. Still if I do nothing else I do cute really well and it seems I was forgiven pretty quickly. However, later that same morning Gregg had gone to work and Natalie was in Mummy and Daddy's bedroom doing her hair, when I found this new toy on her bed, seems dogs are not supposed to clean their teeth with human tooth brushes. No one told me! surely this nice minty tasting brush thing was the ideal thing to clean up with before going out to meet other doggies in the park. Apparently not! back to my bed for the second time in a morning, for someone I was supposed to be looking after she is very scary.

Anyway it took a bit longer but seems I was forgiven again and when Gregg came home we all went to the park with Gregg's mum and her doggie, not very social though, still I just went off and played with all the other doggies in the park, which Natalie thought was great fun because she chased me all over the park, eventually I let her catch me and it was time to go home for tea. Pizza! I like Pizza, she must have really enjoyed our run because I got some pizza and lots of cuddles on the floor with both her and Gregg.

Sunday we went to the Bird sanctuary, I like this park because there is hills, trees, lots of fields and usually plenty of other doggies to play with, and there was, we had loads of fun and apparently I was really good, well I thought I'd give them a bit of a break they had a big day yesterday and they are only young after all. Mummy and Daddy came home in the afternoon and we had big fussing, lots of tummy rubs and cuddles, although Daddy walked in and within five minutes had found my gateway to next door and blocked it up again, Meany!

I'd better go now, I think Natalie and Gregg may need baby sitting again soon so Mummy tells me, something about taking my Nanny and Granddad to the airport, I'm not sure what an airport is, but Nanny and Granddad seem to go there a lot. Still it does have the benefit of having Natalie and Gregg to look after, I don't mind really they are quite good kids.

Write again soon, lots of love.

Becka

Houdini me

Hi

I've had a great time over the last week or so, unbeknown to Mummy and Daddy one of the fence panels blew down in all that wind and rain and they thought I had got into next door through a fox hole. I had loads of biscuits through the hole before they came round to get me and bring me home, seems they thought that I'd be daft enough to take the biscuit and come through the hole for more, I should co co I'm way too cute for that.

The fun's over now though the man next door and my Daddy put the panel back and just for good measure Daddy blocked up the hole as well. We went out for a long walk on Saturday morning, it was supposed to be in between the rain storms, but Daddy timed it exactly wrong and we both got soaked, I didn't like that at all, it was cold and wet. Whats this thunder and lightning stuff too, very noisy and a little bit frightening, stayed close to Daddy when that was going on (he does have his uses).

No pictures this time, it was much too wet to take a camera out, best go now as I'm hatching my next escape plot, I haven't seen the people on the other side for a while, they are always nice so maybe I will have a closer look at that fence.

Write again soon.

Becka.

Brrrrrrrrrrr

Hi its me again, you remember that the last time I wrote I mentioned frost, ice and snow! well as you can see from the picture the frost and a little tiny bit of snow on the garden looked really pretty, especially against the blue sky. As long as it stayed like this it was okay, I could run around and keep warm in the garden and my balls bounced really well of the hard ground so that made chasing them much more fun.

The hard ground did have a small disadvantage though, it made digging my escape tunnels a bit more difficult, that combined with Daddy getting to know where the weak spots in the fence were made my visits to the neighbours more and more difficult. I did still manage the odd visit though.

Well I promised to tell you about snow! we went to bed as usual on Sunday, it had been very cold all day and this white stuff had started falling from the sky around Tea time, I had a little look out of the kitchen door, but it didn't seem like much to me. Anyway the next morning Daddy came into the kitchen and we went to go out side for our usual early morning greeting and tummy rubs and the courtyard outside the kitchen door was gone! the whole area was covered in a thick layer of white, very cold, fluffy stuff, which when you stood on it, it eat your paws and legs. In protest at this freezing cold assault on my paws, I did the only sensible thing and laid down, refused to move and cried to be picked up and brought back into the comparative warmth of the kitchen.

Later that day, Daddy having called his boss and discovered that the company was shut (I'm not surprised why would anyone want to go out in all that white stuff) we had to go out for a walk. Mummy and Daddy got dressed up in lots of cloths and big boots and I got my lead on, seemed very unfair. We had not got to the end of the path before I started to change my mind about this snow stuff and by the time we had walked to the park, I was in seventh heaven, I could run though all the snow create huge plumes of dust bury my nose in it and generally thought it was the best conditions I had come across in my first year. I'm really hoping that we get to play like this again this winter, it was great fun.

As you can see from the photograph once the stuff had stopped falling, the sun came out and although I never stopped it eating my paws I had great fun in the snow. I'll write again soon.

Becka xx