Not such a Wise Old Owl, more a Confused Young Owl

Hi Everybody,

I had a wee bit of a shock a few days ago, I was a sleepies all snuggled down in my bed when BANG! there was a huge noise at the window, Mummy and Daddy either didn't hear it or they ignored it, because they didn't come down.  Scared me at the time, but as Mummy and Daddy didn't seem to be bothered by whatever the bang was I snuggled back down into my bed and went back to sleepies.

Anyway the next morning, Mummy noticed a mark on the window where a bird had flown into the glass and the dust from its feathers had left a shadow of its wings on the outside of the glass.  I went outside to check to see if the birdie was alright, I had a good look round but there was no Dickie on the floor nor was there any feathers under the window so if it was stunned then it must have woken up again before the fox came through the garden.  This is me having a good look around.

On the weekend, Saturday afternoon actually, my sister Caroline came around for dinner, she and Mummy were going to a boot fair on Sunday.  Anyway she noticed the mark on the window, but now with the afternoon sunlight shining on it you could see much more detail, Daddy took some photographs and this is what he got.

Now I wonder what this little Owl though he could see in the glass that he thought would make a tasty snack, not me surely? I'm much too big.

I've got to go now, Mummy is poorly and wants to use the computer so I have to give it up But before I sign off I wanted to add two more photographs Daddy was being all artistic on Sunday afternoon and actually I thought they were quite nice, so I thought I'd share them with you.

Okay Mummy really wants the computer now so I've got to go now.  Write soon.

Love, Becka X

That can't be right can it?

Hello everybody,

I need some help here, I'm not sure if Mummy and Daddy are telling stories or not.  Now according to Mummy and Daddy my ancestors came from Rhodesia, I know that much is true because I'm a Rhodesian Ridgeback, the clue is in the title really.  But, now here is where it all gets a bit unbelievable, in the olden days in Rhodesia, my ancestors were trained to hunt lions, well not so much hunt them as track them and then working in pairs or threes to keep the lion occupied until the hunter caught up and trapped or killed the lion.  Sounds like a good story, but Mummy and Daddy went to the Zoo a week or so ago and brought back some pictures of lions, the first one is a Daddy Lion and the second one is a Mummy lion.

Now you can see my problem, have you seen the size of those claws! even with big Boris who is a very big dogie I wouldn't want to try to keep one of these big cats busy until a hunter arrived.  The Daddy lion is laying down and is huge can you really believe that intelligent pretty dogies like me would want to be chasing big scary things like this, surely not!  I think Mummy and Daddy are pulling my paw but I'm just not sure, can anybody help, did my great grand parents really track these huge pussy cats and if they did is that why all the local little cats keep spitting and hissing at me.

Mummy and Daddy had a nice time at the zoo and saw lots of animals, they showed me lots of pictures when they got home some of the animals are really cute and some of them are really scary but the ones that looked like the most fun for me to play with were the Meerkats.  They seem to have lots of energy and I'm sure they would be good at hide and seek, it looks like this one is seeking.

Whilst these two are looking for places to hide, you see I don't want to hunt cats but I'd like to play with them and these look like much more my size of cat, aren't they sweet!

Finally I have one more question, does any one know what this is and why has it got two heads, its a very strange looking animal I've never seen anything with two heads before where do they live.  I've looked around all my favorite walks and I've not seen anything like this.  Can any one help me?

If anyone can help me with this you can email me at this site.

Look forward to hearing from you, lots of love Becka X



What a weekend that was!

Hiya everybody,

Remember last time I wrote I was looking forward to Boris and Cassie coming to stay, well we had a great time in the garden and in the Plantation (one of my favorite walkies spots).  As I suspected Cassie was a bit miffed at all the attention Boris was paying me, well we are old friends after all.  Anyway she started shouting at me really loudly and to be polite as she was a guest in my garden, I let her get away with it for a while, but eventually I had to put my paw down and I had to introduce her to a new game I invented on the spot.  I've since called it 'my snarly teeth are bigger and more frightening than yours', for a new game I found my self being quite good at it Cassie was very impressed, even Boris was a bit stunned.

Things settled down fairly quickly after that and we all got along quite well for a first meeting, this is us playing in the garden, well Boris and me playing and Cassie looking on.

I tried to get Cassie involved with the games, as any good host would even sneaking up on her from under the table, as you can see below, but she really wasn't that keen on my bossing Boris around like I'm used to so she stayed out of the way of the 'my mouths bigger than your mouth' games which Boris and I love.

later in the day we all went to the Plantation, which has lots of narrow tracks for running through and bushes for jumping over , we had such fun chasing noises, smells and each other look at Cassie's ears when she runs they stick up! she is really cute, not as pretty as me of course, but cute all the same.  Once we had been running around in the Plantation for a while we all started to feel a little tired, so I persuaded Mummy and Daddy to take us home for some dinner and a little rest.  Nat Nat and Gregg were at home waiting for us when we got home, which was a nice treat, although Nat Nat was not feeling very well.  I still got big hugs though.

We played, eat each others food and swapped rawhide bones all week end, that caused a bit of confusion and a few growls from all three of us you see we all wanted the biggest bits and none of us was particularly bothered about what was fair or who actually owned which bit.  Daddy got annoyed with this though and took all the bits away, we did get them back at the end of the visit though.  By the time Boris and Cassie had to go home they seemed quite settled, in fact I don't think either of them really wanted to go.  I think I'm quite a good hostess really, although all the effort in keeping everybody amused and happy is very tiring.  As you can see from the last picture I had to have a little rest after they had gone, actually, to be honest, I went back to bed and stayed there for the rest of the day. 



I'm hoping that Boris and Kassie can come back soon, or perhaps I could go up to see them, I'll have to have a word with Mummy and Daddy to see what we can arrange.  I'll let you know how I get on.

Write soon, lots of love Becka. Xx

Old friends and new friends!

Hello everyone,

We are having visitors at the weekend, you remember mummy and daddy's friends Gary and Sharron and their dog Boris, he's the one who taught me ditch jumping (quite a hunk actually), well he's got a new girl friend, they all live together in Cambridgeshire and they are all coming to visit on Saturday.

Boris' new girl friend is called Cassie, I've seen pictures of her and whilst she's not as pretty as me she looks great fun, I hope she likes me I'm sure I'm going to like her.  I'm told she is really good at 'my mouth is bigger than your mouth' as she plays it with Boris regularly and he taught me how to play so she would have lots of practice.  I'm really looking forward to them coming to stay it's going to be such fun I haven't had any one for a sleep over for ages.

I'll tell you all about it next week its soooooooooo exciting!

Lots of love

Becka X

Nat Nat's 21st Birthday Party

Hello everybody,

Remember the last time I wrote mummy and daddy were planning Nat Nat's fancy dress party and I was going as Scooby Do, well last Sunday was the day, daddy and I worked all morning in the kitchen making lots of yummy food, some of which I can tell you was very yummy as I helped taste testing it!  But some of the especially yummy stuff that came out of the oven, I was not allowed to taste test it all, daddy can be so mean at times!

While daddy and me were working hard in the kitchen, mummy was cleaning the house and Gregg was setting up the bar and the tables and chairs in the garden, Caroline and Anthony arrived and set about setting up the music and helping move the food into the garden on the tables in the tent thing.  Just in time, we were all ready to wait for the guests to start arriving and we were taking photographs of Nat Nat in her costume, she looks more like someone else than my Nat Nat, but she rubbed my tummy just like Nat Nat so I knew it was her really.  Apparently she looked like someone called Marilyn Monroe, I don't know who this Marilyn Monroe person is, but she is very pretty if she looks like this, what do you think. 

We were all finishing off when we had a little bit of a problem, suddenly it started to rain and it got heavier and heavier and the wind blew, then suddenly the tent thing in the garden blew down and there was lots of running around and people panicking.  There was also a few rude words as daddy Anthony, Russell and Gregg ran out and rescued the tent.

Eventually with the tent all back up and secure every one calmed down again and people started to arrive and settle in some of them were dressed rather strangely look at the next two photographs and you will see what I mean now this is Nat Nat and Gregg together (outside the tent bit that collapsed).  He is Popeye, now I think I know who this Popeye chap is, he is the man that makes the popcorn chicken at Kentucky.  Nat Nat brings this round occasionally when mummy and daddy are away nice I like popcorn chicken.

I think they must be really happy, they look really happy and remember that when she is really happy Nat Nat starts trying to wrestle Gregg's head off, seems he's learnt to get his wrestling moves in first and trap those arms down below the level of his neck.

In amongst all of the guests, there was little people, you will recall little people and parties are great fun, if you follow them around they drop food, or now they are a little bit older they just give you food, I had a really good time with the little people at the party, Alfie, Sam, Reece and Jake all gave me loads of tit bits, although as you can see from the next photographs there was a really nice looking cake and both Reese and Jake were really mean with their cake, they ate it all themselves I didn't get any.  If you look carefully in the photograph you can see Jake on the left and Reece on the right covering their ears whilst every one is singing Happy Birthday to Nat Nat.  I thought it was OK daddy always sings like that and it seems all the mummies and daddies do too.

 

This is Nat Nat with mummy, seems she was the vicar of Dibley, whats a Dibley and why has mummy stolen their vicar, come to that, whats a vicar.  Nice cake though.

Now after all that partying and following the little people around (do the little people ever slow down or even stop) a girl needs her beauty sleep so even before the big peoples started to drift off home, I retired gracefully to my bed and had a big sleepies.

I heard mummy and daddy talking the next day and they said they had a lovely time at the party, so did I but I was very tired the next day I had to help with the clearing up and putting the furniture back where it should be and everything, well moving my bed back into my favorite corner on the floor in the middle bit of the sofa.

I hope all those who came to Nat Nat's party enjoyed it, write soon.

Lots of love Becka XXXXX

                                                                                                       

Finaly I'm back

Hello again

Well! what a summer this has been, I came back from holiday refreshed and ready to get my paws on the computer and daddy disappears for a night, seems he had to go into hospital for an operation so I had to be a big girl and look after mummy while he was away. I went into doggie hospital once and I woke up with a very sore tummy and couldn't play with other doggies for two weeks! daddy didn't seem to have a sore tummy, more of a sore throat and he didn't seem to mind playing with me, so I think peoples hospital can't be as bad as doggie hospital.

Anyway daddy has been at home for a couple of weeks so I haven't been able to get on the computer while he has been here. You see they don't know that I do this, they also have a new camera which is proving a bit more difficult to use so I'm a bit short of photographs at the moment. The advantage to daddy being her is that I have had lots of extra cuddles and tummy rubs during the day, which is very nice, but there are times when a girl needs to be left alone for a little snooze. I suppose that I brought part of the problem on myself, you see, I found a new hole in the fence and was checking out the front garden when Shelia from next door saw me and took me back to my front door. That was it for the next week daddy never let me have a moment alone in case I went exploring again, until he was well enough to block up the hole.

Well he is now back at work and we are making preparations for my little sisters (Nat Nats) birthday party, she was 21 while she was away on holiday and she is having a fancy dress party on the weekend. I'm going as Scooby Do apparently, so no fancy dress, (which is good because mummy and daddy went to a 60's party a few wees ago and they looked very odd) but loads of Scoobie snacks, I haven't got the heart to tell daddy that its a cartoon not a real doggie, besides the Scoobie snacks that he has fed me are really very good.

I'll write again after the party, maybe by then I will have worked out the new camera and be able to put some photographs on.


Lots of love



Becka X

I'm Home !

Hi Everybody,



I'm back from my holidays, I had a lovely time in Selsea with Nanny and Barrie pebbles, we went for lots of lovely walkies and I had grated cheese on my dinner more often than not. I played with Beemer on the beach and my friend Mattie came to stay as well, we had great fun together. Mummy and Daddy were also away on their holidays, they went to America, which is very far away, I'm not sure if its as far as Selsea, but its a long way.

Nanny and Barrie brought me home on Saturday and Mummy and Daddy came home on Sunday, Mummy and Daddy had been to see my friend Boris and his new friend Kassie at Sharon and Gary's house in Cambridge (is Cambridge in America, cos I've been to Cambridge and its not as far as Selsea).

Unfortunately, Mummy and Daddy took the camera when they went on holiday, so I couldn't take any pictures of my holiday, not sure I could have managed all those little buttons anyway, I have enough trouble with the keyboard! But you will have to take my word for it Selsea in the summer, with your friends is the place to be.

I'll write again soon, but for the moment, I have to start retraining Mummy and Daddy about the grated cheese on my dinner, now where is Nanny pebbles phone number, I had it on a disc around my neck for the last couple of weeks, but I got a new collar when I got home (a pink one that says good girl on it, its really pretty) and this disc has got Mummy and Daddy's numbers on it. So I can't get Nanny pebbles to call Mummy and Daddy and explain that I'll eat all that boring dog stuff, if its got cheese on it.

Never mind, I'm sure they will learn given enough time, they can be a bit stubborn, you see its important to let them think they are in control, which they are when I let them. I have to be a bit careful, Mummy and Daddy might read this blog, you can never be sure. Any way I just wanted to say thank you to Nanny and Barrie pebbles for a lovely holiday.

lots of love Becka. XX