Heartfelt thanks to you all for your kind and comforting comments on my last post. Mr Psmith and I are slowly getting used to the house without our beloved Demi; it's tough and it hurts, but she's always in our hearts so we feel like she's still close to us.

On a happier note,
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Yesterday we had to say goodbye to a loving, faithful, sweet-natured companion. We are not good for much today, what with this big hole in our hearts. *snif*

"When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and ( Read more... )

Our dog turned 11 last week. This is VERY old for an English mastiff! This is how she looked when we reminded her of her birthday:


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It looks like a T. Rex bone, but the pet shop assures us it is in fact a bovine of some sort. Be sure to turn the sound up to get the full effect. Also, note warning which appears about 50 seconds in :)

talesofsnape, rivertempest, toblass and madeleone have given me pandas!!! How lovely to get all those big fluffy bears -- thank you, m'dears :)

lady-of-clunn has an interesting meme on her post today, full of questions about one's house. One can learn a lot about someone from their house -- much more than from "Coke or Pepsi?" and "Croutons or bacon bits?" (Surprisingly, however, there are no ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who contributed most excellent names for Lucius' dogs -- he may have to start a breeding program (for the dogs, not for himself) in order to use them all!

In the absence of anything sensible to say, after several many glasses of wine (which seemed appropriate on the verge of a four-day weekend), I give you...MANLY TEA.

Lucius has deerhounds, or maybe wolfhounds; we all know that, right?


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If you're having difficulty persuading your friends to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with you, try the following:

We started off the Christmas festivities with a bang, in the form of emergency surgery for the dog early in the day Christmas Eve. The incredibly expensive diagnosis listed on her discharge sheet three days later when we brought her home was "Malposition of abdominal contents" which means...well, basically this, but I'll let you imagine. Suffice ( Read more... )

Winding up the last of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. It's much better, and Roland is a much more sympathetic character, than I remembered from my first reading four or five years ago. Definitely worth a revisit; even if King does suffer from verbal bloat on occasion, it's all so vivid you don't really mind being led round the mulberry bush ( Read more... )