Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Christmas Time








"No more wine!"







Well that’s it over for another year, but what a wonderful Christmas Tess had.

It all started when Grandma No 1 gave her an advent calendar. Yes, that’s right, a doggy advent calendar, so every day Tess opened her window and retrieved a doggy choc. Yum. Such fun!

We’ve avoided putting up a full size tree since Tess arrived, but decided this year she was old enough to cope, so down from the loft came tree, tinsel, lights, baubles, the works. We fully expected there to be mayhem, but not a bit of it. Tess just looked at us in all our merriment as if to say ‘’why is there a tree in our living room’’ and ‘’why can’t I see out of the window properly’’!!!!!!! She really didn’t pay that much attention, although we didn’t risk putting presents under until Christmas Eve.

On Christmas Day she couldn’t wait to open her parcel and gave us lots of help opening our! Such fun to watch – just like having small children!! She was very pleased with her squeaky Rudolf, until Grandma No. 2 arrived with treats and an even squeakier ball. She was besotted, but it wasn’t the squeak that drove us mad, but the fact that she devised a great game of pushing it under furniture so we had to keep crawling round the floor to retrieve it. Try as we might to hide the thing she was completely enthralled and wouldn’t give it up. That is until the turkey arrived. The way to Tess’s heart is definitely via her tummy!!!!!!!

Although we had lovely walks all through the Christmas break we decided we’d take a trip to our favourite destination, North Norfolk, to blow away the cobwebs, so set off on a very cold Sunday morning. We headed straight for Blakeney and had a very blustery walk across the marshes, then headed to Morston for lunch at our favourite doggy friendly pub. We walked in and were greeted by the words ‘’that is a Welsh Springer Spaniel, isn’t it?’’ Another couple had the same idea as us and had an 11 year old Welshie sitting under the table! Now anyone who owns this breed knows that doesn’t happen very often!!!!!! Next we headed to Sherringham Park for yet another walk. Tess loves this place. You can let your dog off the lead in most areas if they are reasonably under control???? And it’s a perfect place for lively spaniels who love running through the woods and exploring. This time we met a couple with two lovely English Springers. They were very interested in Tess as they had hoped to own the Welsh version but couldn’t find an available litter so rescued another English. Welsh Springer Spaniels are very special and can be like gold dust!!!!!

Well that was about it but for 2008 but Tess would like to wish all Welsh Springer Spaniels and their owners A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.