A Muddy Walk

     

                                          

This is me on Sunday ( photo taken by Nadia Sidebottom) on a special walk for schnauzers and their peeps to celebrate the birthday of Lolah mini schnauzer who is one year old. Although it was very wet and cold we had a good walk and even little Frida the affenpinscher pup managed to stride out for a bit.

                                           

Luckily the rain had stopped now and we have lovely sunshine and the garden is full of flowers. My grand pups are going out to play in the garden and having a really fun time there :-)

    

                      

                       

                        

                         

                         

                         

                         

                          

                                         Lots of places to explore for the little ones :-)

    

 

Lots of visitors

Now that the puppies are getting bigger we are having lots of visitors to see them. Some of my grand pups are going to families who already have one of my pups and so they came along to visit their relatives too :-)

                             

This is Bertie meeting his little brother. Bertie was just passing through with his peeps for the day but he loved meeting the babies.

                              

       This is Smudge getting to know his new little sister- to-be who will be called Scout :-)

                               

             This is Otto saying hello to his sister Trilby who he hasn't seen for a long time.

                              

                            Otto is my son and here he is with his niece Pip and my tail BOL

                               

                                "Form a queue" - me bottom right then Trilby, Otto and Pip

                              

                         And this is Mabel my daughter with Frida one of the affenpinschers

                               

                                           And relaxing in the garden with the puppies.

             And here are some more photos of the little ones who are growing bigger every day!

                               

                                                                      Scout

                               

                                                                       Raffles

                               

                                                                        

                                                                          Archie 

  

                                

                                                                       Kaspar 

                                

                                                                       Sorcha

      

    

   

    

 

My new grandpups

  

                         

Yes bloggy friends I am a grandma again :-) My daughter Trilby gave birth to five beautiful puppies three weeks ago and they are growing fast! They have moved from the quiet room where they were born to the kitchen now so they can get used to all the sounds and smells and sights of the home and we have all had a chance to touch noses.

                         

            But Trilby is still feeding them and we are not allowed to play with them just yet. 

                           

                                         Here are some photos of them taken today :-)

                               

                                                                    A little boy

                                

                                                             One of his brothers

                                

                                                                  The other brother

                                 

                                                                One of the girls

                                  

                                                                      And her sister

By next week they should be big enough to come out and explore the house a bit more - then the fun will begin BOL.

 

Tour de Yorkshire

                        

Last year the Tour de France cycle race started here in our home county of Yorkshire and all the peeps thought it was great fun and there were lots of celebrations all round the towns and villages. Anyway the peeps decided it would be even more fun to have a race every year just in Yorkshire!! So this year was the first Tour de Yorkshire and even better for us Stage 2 of the race set off from Selby which is a market town not far from the village where we live. So Judith and me went to watch the cyclists set off and enjoy the decorations round the town.

                          

                           

                           

There were yellow and blue cycles everywhere decorating shop windows and even the Abbey!

                             

                              

                               

                           The three swans are the symbol of Selby from many centuries ago.

                                

                                 

                                    And the blue flag with the white rose is the Yorkshire flag 

I was there at the start to watch the cyclists setting off and there were crowds and press everywhere.

                                   

                                                     

                                   

                                    

                                                             This was team Wiggins 

                      Barry Wiggins is a famous UK cyclist - second on the right of the Wiggins team. 

                                   

The only trouble with the bikes is they go so fast - one minute there were hundreds and then - 

                                     

                                                                    They were gone !

                                      

                                                        But there is always next year  BOL

     

    

      

Walk among the bluebells

                            

Yesterday the sun came out and it was a beautiful morning for a stroll in the woods so Leigh took me through to Brayton Barff to see the bluebells. They are just coming out but are very pretty to see.

                             

                              

                               

                     There were some lovely little white flowers under one of the trees too.

                                 

Not many peeps or dogs out that early so I had the woods to myself really to furtle about and enjoy all the lovely smells.

                               

                               

                               

                                

As well as the flowers there were so many birds singing - it was lovely to hear them. We even saw a little Robin looking for insects on the pathway.

                                

On the way back Leigh managed to get a photo of two swallows who arrived in our village last week. I hope they are not going to get a shock today as it has got really cold and windy again! 

                                           

                                

I am hoping the warm Spring weather comes back soon for the swallows and for our fun walks!