Santa has been to our house once more and brought us some lovely gifts for Christmas Day.

Is this one for me, is it?

The freezing temperatures have not stopped Father Christmas defrosting his sleigh for Christmas 2010.  So what is dad’s excuse for washer bottles freezing and needing to scrape the windows?

Two dogs in Cumbria now have very happy lickers thanks to gifts provided by our readers and friends.

Christmas Day

An early start on Christmas Day for us all but first some porridge and a cup of tea for mum and dad.

How long does it take for them to eat their breakfasts?  Hurry up. Santa has been and we have loads of lovely sniffs all wrapped up under the tree.

Eventually they finish and we can get down to some serious unwrapping.  Every parcel is inspected to see if it contains chocolate, biscuits or squeaky things for us.

Presents for Buster and Charlie

Dad gets a number of bottles of brown gold coloured liquids that he calls whisky. The glass is cold on our noses and they smell slightly of caramel or the sea.

Mums soapy things make us sneeze.  One  gift was of talc  and it has slightly leaked in the packaging.  When the parcel was opened Charlie was covered with white powder. It was funny and he sneezed and sneezed until mum wiped his nose with a cloth.

Christmas gifts from Toby

Thanks to our friend Toby, in South Cumbria, we are the proud owner of two well wrapped presents.

Toby tucks in to his hide boot

Mum has decided that she is going to keep these prezzies in a safe place for a few weeks as we have plenty of other things to be getting on with.

Toby sent us a photograph of the hide boot chew we sent him.  He says he loved pulling out the laces then working on the big flat pieces.

He adds that it took him most of Christmas Day afternoon to deal with the challenge.

You open it, go on...

He goes on to say that the snow and ice is still causing problems to walk on for his human but now that she has some new rubber pull-on walking spikes, walks around the block are back to their normal length once more.

Christmas gifts for dogs

Back to our gifts and one thing missing, thankfully for the sanity of our two-leggers, are squeaky toys.

Posh gifts from Santa

Not one parcel contained a christmas cracker or pully-tuggy toy thing with a squeak.

A whole Christmas without the squeak, squeak of the shrill squeakers and mum reaching for the headache pills before lunch.

Highlight of the gifts has to a be a doggy breakfast and a packet of Scooby Snacks.

Thick rashers of bacon, hashbrowns and other breakfast lovelieness in a box and all for us, yummy.

Sprout stalk to clean our teeth

Dad says we can have one Scooby snack or rasher each per day.  Next he will be issuing a Ration Book like they had during the War.

Christmas sprout stalk

The seasonal Christmas lunch would not be complete without sprouts, and this year was no exception.

A fantastic raw sprout stalk, cut into sections will keep us going for quite a few days. Assuming mum doesn’t break the knife she uses to cut it with.

That is all for now as we need to lay down in front of the fire whilst the two leggers watch something on the magic window. They mentioned something about a lonely goat on a motorcycle in a chocolate factory I think.

Happy Christmas for us all

Buster and Charlie

Like an old man sat in the corner of a room enjoying his pipe on a Sunday afternoon I too get great comfort from from a pipe.

Not the smoking kind I hasten to add, but the ones that come from the middles of toilet rolls.

The cardboard pipes or tubes make for great chewing and for making a mess.

So I could not believe my eyes when mum produced a 1m long (3ft in old money) tube.

She says it came from the Christmas pixie mines and had something called wrapping paper on it. Santa and his little helpers use miles of wrapping paper to enclose gifts for Christmas, so the story goes.

What a challenge, a roll twice as big as me and all mine. 
My mum kept an eye on me and I made sure I didn’t swallow any of the pieces but what fun ripping and tearing and bashing it around.

I am beginning to look forward to this Christmas thing….