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Totally irrelevant but at last I have a famous neighbour in the UK. If anybody's seen the latest Paypal advert, the black shih-tzu that puts in an appearance is Teddy from next door.
HA HA HA HA HA!!! - Teddy is definitely the Star that steals the Limelight ;o>Has Rig been around to get his Autograph yet, Derek?
Rig and Teddy (and Spencer, Teddy's son) are old friends. We quite often meet them on our morning walk, Rig usually greets them with a quick sniff to say 'sorry I can't stop it's time for breakfast'.
Ahhh? - pressing engagements and priorities!!! - LOL!!! ;o>
I too have known a famous dog. My friend's little lhasa apso modelled a winter coat for the Asda catalogue.How's Rig doing, Derek?
Lez wrote: "I too have known a famous dog. My friend's little lhasa apso modelled a winter coat for the Asda catalogue.How's Rig doing, Derek?"
He's still on the antibiotics, he has good days and bad days and he's back on the paracetamol at the moment. We won't know much more until he's had his x-ray done in a few weeks.
We have a half an acre of garden over here so if we aren't careful he overdoes it, we're keeping him indoors as much as possible today to try and give his bad leg a rest.
Lockdown humour keeps making me laugh ;o> ...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Lockdown humour keeps making me laugh ;o> ..."
The eggs've been laid more often an'all!!
(Not strictly true of lockdown as I've been informed that my soon to be ex-employer has been notified of 15 pregnancies!)
Is that why you've decided to leave your Job, Mr B?... to avoid paying out for Cards, Flowers, and Gifts for all those Baby Shower parties! - LOL!!! ;o>
It's really hard sometimes to feel hopeful and positive when the whole wide World is still actively struggling to deal with, contain and/or eradicate such a terrible Virus - and every day brings yet another new death toll of even more numbers and statistics that many seem to forget are more than mere numbers but were also people with meaningful lives who are now being grieved for by their families and friends.But, I am sat here day after day, listening to all of the noise and busy activities of a huge old School Site being razed to the ground and the start of a new Side Road being created in it's place with 24 Houses and 13 Apartments on it ... seeing so many pictures across the Internet of Babies that are being born during this Lockdown ... and hearing of so many pregnancies too! ... and it really lifts my spirits, makes me feel happy, and fills me with hope for the future.
This horrific Pandemic came out of seemingly nowhere and has raged around the World taking everyone hostage to it ... but ... Life still continues and new Life is being planned for and being created ;o>
The World keeps on turning, time still moves forward, and Life goes on ;o>
Suzy - I'm sorry to depress your thread but I'm saddened to announce that we've had to let Rig leave us. We had to put him back on his painkillers at the weekend when he started to go downhill again. After speaking to the vet in Bristol he basically said that the most likely diagnosis was a cancerous tumour in the bone and recommended that we got our local vet over here to do an x-ray.Got the x-ray done on Wednesday which clearly showed a tumour in the knee joint and also a suspicious shadow in the chest. No real treatment options so we arranged for the vet to come out last night and release him from the pain.
I'm now going to disappear from here for a week or so while we get over it.
On a positive note, Su is already planning to try and get our next puppy when we come back over to France in November, so who knows. We'd better start thinking of a name for him soon though.
Oh Derek! How awful for you and Su. So unexpected when he was in good health up until what seemed a silly accident. I know how bad you are both feeling. It's horrible.
I'm so sorry Derek. Rig was such a lovely character, you'll miss him terribly.
derek and su, devastated for both of you - the big boy was a legend!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "It's really hard sometimes to feel hopeful and positive when the whole wide World is still actively struggling to deal with, contain and/or eradicate such a terrible Virus - and every day brings ye..."Isn't that generally the case with the human race, that whenever there is tragedy....be it from war, disease or a natural disaster...it usually followed by the human race bonking like no tomorrow to repopulate our species...again.
Derek wrote: "Suzy - I'm sorry to depress your thread but I'm saddened to announce that we've had to let Rig leave us. We had to put him back on his painkillers at the weekend when he started to go downhill agai..."Aw....just read this...my sympathies Derek. Losing a beloved pet seem to hurt the most somehow....as i recall when i lost Oscar in 2007. I decided from then on..no more pets...it's too painful when they fall ill.
By the way....it's emotionally painful losing a relative or friend too, but somehow it's different with a dog.
Derek wrote: "Suzy - I'm sorry to depress your thread but I'm saddened to announce that we've had to let Rig leave us. We had to put him back on his painkillers at the weekend when he started to go downhill agai..."Sending you a big germ-free virtual (but hayfevery, sorry) hug, Derek.
Sorry to hear about Rig Derek, horrid news. He was a cool character, so he was. Wish I'd had the pleasure of meeting him. Have lost a few over the years so I feel your pain bud. RIP Rig old fella.
Ohhh Derek ... x ... I keep looking at your lovely Rig on your Profile and my Heart just breaks for you. There is simply never ever enough time whenever it comes to sharing our lives with our wonderful little hairy woofers, is there? ;o< ... x x x
I'm not going to try and respond to everybody individually (the tears will just go on longer), but thanks to all of you for your sympathy and understanding. Rig was without doubt the best dog we've had, loved by many who met him. I'm not looking forward to coming back to the UK and having to explain his absence to his friends in the coffee shop, garage, pet shop, bric-a-brac store, etc, in Lydney that used to feed him!
... and loved too by so many who never met him as well ... xWhat a wonderful and a remarkable life Rig had with you, Derek - he really couldn't have wanted for any more than to be so loved and to be so cared about ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "... and loved too by so many who never met him as well ... xWhat a wonderful and a remarkable life Rig had with you, Derek - he really couldn't have wanted for any more than to be so loved and to..."
I've added some 'Rig as a puppy' pictures to my profile for you Suzy.
Ohhh, he really was always such a beautiful boy, Derek ... x x xThank you so much for sharing those precious Pup pictures with us.
I can't look at any pictures of Tia yet without completely breaking down and crying my Heart out over them. It'll be a year come mid-October since she had to leave us - and I still find myself in tears at some point every day with just missing her so much it hurts.
To have never have known her though? - to have never shared in her life with her and to have never loved her and never been loved by her? - is something that I can only feel would be far more of a truly terrible loss to me than to still be grieving so much for her now.
I wouldn't have missed a single minute of having her here with us all - not for the whole World - I only wish that we had had longer, that's all ... x
We've loved and still miss all of the seven dogs we've had, but Rig was special It's going to be a while before we can talk about his loss without bursting into tears, but we will get there eventually.
I visualise Rig in the coffee shop in Fowey, searching for things. Daft as a brush.
I spent so much of Tia (& Mitzi's) life thinking on, and even worrying too at times, that I couldn't possibly ever really love them quite as much as I had so loved our previous darling girls - Cindy & Beth - and sometimes feeling sad that maybe they were not always being as completely loved by me as much as they always should-of been and deserved to be?And, you know what? - it actually wasn't until the very moment that I held Tia in my Arms and looked deep into her Eyes as she left us that I finally realised that, of course, I had always loved her just as deeply and as completely the entire time - with every ounce of all of my being - and that I simply couldn't have ever loved her anymore even if I had tried too ;o>
You will always love and you will miss Rig forever - but there will surely be yet another little sweetheart, just about to born somewhere out there, that will be more than ready to come into your lives and fill your days with so much more love, and happiness, and contentment, if you really do want for that to be so ... x x x
Lez wrote: "I visualise Rig in the coffee shop in Fowey, searching for things. Daft as a brush."That's because he was looking for Frank the coffee shop labrador's toys, or possibly any food that Frank might have missed:-)
He was absolutely beautiful Derek. I'm not too familiar with Dobermans but my nephew by marriage has always had them. They were devastated when they lost Cody last year. He had been devoted to their two children and holidayed with them all over the UK. Our last two dogs were German Shorthaired Pointers and I would love to have another. Rig looks very like our beautiful girl Mud.
My favourite time of year is finally here ;o> ...
Yep, Autumn is definitely here. I'm looking forward to winter. To having the range lit and hopefully lots of proper cold weather, not too many damp days.
Pouring the concrete for our new extension next saturday, just before it gets too cold. Then I can work away building the walls over the next few weeks. Dry winter weather is my favorite for working in.
Autumn? I was out in shorts and a t shirt today. I always aim not to put the heating on until 1 Nov. Helps to be right next to the North Sea - keeps us a few degrees cooler in the height of Summer and a few degrees warmer in Winter.
Winter's good for gardens, too. Fewer leaves, so you can see the shape of things, no scurrying round watering, cool enough to get things done and any sun just lights everything up without burning.Love it!
Still wandering around in short sleeve shirts and shorts myself, though I have started switching off the aircon in the truck overnight as it is getting a bit on the cool side now. Once the sun is up and it gets a bit warmer, the aircon is straight back on.
Last night was the first one where it was cool enough for my fingers to go numb while delivering so it's time to dig out those gloves recommended by Helen.
Last night was the first one where it was cool enough for my fingers to go numb while delivering so it's time to dig out those gloves recommended by Helen.
It's only 15° here and has even been lower. I've had my electric fire on most days lately and my neighbours have had the heating on for 2 days! Grizzly must be a very hot-blooded creature. Oo-er!
Loads of people ask me if I'm part Eskimo, but I'm just more comfortable with lower temperatures - I get more lethargic the warmer it gets :)
Grizzlygrump wrote: "Loads of people ask me if I'm part Eskimo, but I'm just more comfortable with lower temperatures - I get more lethargic the warmer it gets :)"It's not just lethargy, my brain doesn't work as well when it's hot. See
Men at Arms. Terry Pratchett
Not that I'm suggesting that the cold would reveal the secrets of calculus to me but at least I don't slow down to totally dopey. ;o)
I used to have all the Discworld books in hardback until we downsized when we moved and all of my books were amongst the casualties :(
(Game of Thrones too)
(Game of Thrones too)
i have read them all, bar 'wyrd sisters' (and that is just a quirk of mine for the time the series ended or t.p. died, i'd still have one to read), brilliantly inventive and funny books. i liked that t.p. once said the most valuable of his books will be those not signed by him - of course, i have a signed copy of 'the fifth elephant' from a brief meeting after a four hour queue, the purpose being for my son to meet him. why not? he bought all the books, i just read them after him.
A true leg end and no doubt. I always found myself in the minority that preferred The Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic over his later works. But to say "preferred", it was a very fine margin of the creamiest crème de la crème over the really very super duper creamy crème de la crème.
Grizzlygrump wrote: "I used to have all the Discworld books in hardback until we downsized when we moved and all of my books were amongst the casualties :((Game of Thrones too)"
Truly feel for you. Books are such a major component of our lives that I can't see us downsizing all that much when the DH retires, though we do want to move. The thing is, there are so many books in his office that we won't have room for them all and getting him to give any up is impossible. A few years age, he took half a dozen to the charity shop. Inside six months he'd bought most of them back again ...
Were it not for kindle, there wouldn't be room for us ...
I don't have a problem with books so much, it's CDs I can't get rid of.
Spiders. I can't get rid of spiders.Sunday: giant hairy house spider legs sticking up out of bath plughole wiggling around.
Monday: another house spider in the bath but not the same spider as Sunday - they definitely had different names. ;-)
Tuesday: two friendly spiders on my lounge ceiling.
Today: one friendly spider on the bathroom windowsill.
Yes, a recurring theme.
"in the minority"i read randomly to catch up with him, starting with 'interesting times'. i once said to junior that if i had started at the beginning (the above two) i possibly would've thought they were just ok and stopped there.
"I say, I say. My wife's had to socially isolate on her return from a Caribbean island holiday.""Jamaica?"
"Too bloody right. I've locked her in the spare bedroom!"
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