Looking at the world from the dog end of the lead.
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It is officially a white Christmas 2009 according to the boffins at the Met Office and the BBC . The first time for 5 years they say. Our day started with a quick walk in the park then back home to our prezzies. Here is a gallery of our day so far. Thank you everyone [...]
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Frosty ground and brilliant sunshine – just perfect for an early morning walk and that is exactly how we started the day. Mum and dad promised that we would get out today ahead of the forcasted snow, which as yet has not arrived. Buster has taken to wearing his fleecy jacket at this time of [...]
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Celebrations are the order of the day as we clock up one hundred posts on this version of our blog. Long term readers will know that actually the number of posts we have published is a lot higher than this but the clock was reset when we moved to this software called WordPress. Did you [...]
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How many times can we start a blog entry by saying it is raining again? We make a quick dash today, between the showers, to Bitts Park so that we can get out and stretch our paws. Finding a car parking space was difficult for dad as something must be going on at the nearby [...]
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Sunshine and a bit of frost greeted us this morning so Charlie ensured mum and dad were up early because we wanted a good walk, no excuses. Floods, gales and horrid weather has kept us close to home for too long and today it was time for Silloth. Over the last week we have seen [...]
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Flood alerts have been issued by the Environment Agency for all of the local area after heavy overnight rain. We were woken up at one point during the sleep time, so we thought we should go and investigate where all the rain goes, so we headed to Bitts Park and the River Eden. We are [...]
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Rain continues to disrupt our walks on the fells or in potentially muddy places so earlier this week we re-visited a walk we did earlier in the year, March to be precise. Our walk starts next to the print works in Cummersdale, between Carlisle and Dalston. All seemed as it was when we last visited [...]
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After many nights of being scared by the bangs and pops of fireworks we ventured outside this afternoon for a walk to stretch our legs a bit. With big grey clouds on the horizon, we took a short car journey towards the town and our usual walking venue of Bitts Park. Last night the annual [...]
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Our adventures this week have taken us to a small village called Hesket Newmarket. You may remember we visited a place called Caldbeck a few weeks ago well, Hesket Newmarket is about 1.5 miles beyond this, down a narrow ‘B’ road. The village is stretched along the main through road and has a Post Office, [...]
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Just spotted this website where you can learn all about working sheepdogs. A fantastic instructional Border Collie sheepdog handling experience in Cumbria This would make an ideal Christmas present for that ‘not sure what to get ‘ person. http://www.lakedistrictsheepdogexperience.co.uk Details are Troutal Farm Seathwaite Duddon Valley Cumbria LA20 6EF United Kingdom 01229 716235 More details [...]
