Our trip to Whitlit
Yesterday we attended our first literary festival and what a treat it was. Whitlit took place in the charming seaside town of Whitstable on the Kent coast, a place that we have been promising to...
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Twinkle and the rain
We’ve had a very wet winter and I have mentioned here before that Twinkle doesn’t react well to being wet – it’s beyond normal schnauzery-dislike of it – for her, rain drops falling seem...
We’re a’talking at WhitLit
Not long now till we head to the beautiful seaside town of Whitstable on the Kent coast to take part in the inaugural Whitstable Literary Festival. Susie-Belle and I are going to be interviewed...
National Pet Month Competition to Win a Signed & Pawtographed Book
For those of you on Twitter, a chance to win a copy of the book from the lovely people at National Pet Month Win a signed copy of #SavingSusie-Belle – a true story. Follow...
A book on dog food I can actually recommend – a rarity
The other day I was vaguely sifting through the deluge of “stuff” aka Twitter, not paying a lot of attention to most of what was scrolling on the screen – my normal approach to...
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...
Iain Dale’s Book Review and Radio Invite
So far, all feedback I’ve had on the book has been very positive and it seems to be doing what I hoped, which is to help to raise awareness of puppy farming and what...
Fostering – the key to increasing rates of rescue?
As any reader of the book knows, I am hugely thankful to Janet North, Susie-Belle’s foster-mum not only for trusting us to become Susie-Belle’s new family and arranging for the veterinary care that she needed,...
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...