Janetta Harvey Author, Blogger and Campaigner

The holiday breakfast ritual

We seem to have developed a new routine to our mornings here, best told in pictures……. Preparation…     Supervision……    Attention……     Decision, decision…..     …..and Twinkle gets the...

Celebrating National Pet Month

We’re a few days late marking the start of National Pet Month as I had to be away from home at the beginning of the week and yesterday we were travelling all day, arriving in France for our...

“To groke” is just the start…

Last year there was an article circulating round the internet on dog-focussed websites bringing the wonderful old verb “to groke” to modern minds. It was picked up by dog folk as according to Mark...

“On the Pulse of the Morning”

I met up this morning with my friend Rachel for a walk with the girls and amongst the things we chatted about, books featured strongly. We’re both keen readers, Rachel’s a journalist and it’s...

Two surprises this morning

It’s not even 10am and the girls have had two surprises this morning: one nice, one not so nice. Not so nice first: the rain is back. After a pleasant couple of weeks without...

Susie-Belle’s Papoosie

It’s been 17 weeks since Susie-Belle partially ruptured the cruciate ligaments in her knee and although she’s doing very well and continues every day to regain her strength, she is, and probably always will...