Missing You

Well I'm still here at Jack & Beryl's and feel back to my old self, although I did have a relapse when Maggie visited yesterday. I'm clearly also missing all that is going on at the pub. There was an Italian evening yesterday with lots of Pizza and Pasta things on the menu and even cheap Pinot Grigio! but Julie has promised that they will have some more Italian nights so that I can get some cheesy pasta. Maggie's parents were called Bella & Pablo (ridiculous names for Scottish dogs if you ask me!) so she is claiming that she is half Italian (maybe that's why she's got such a big bum!).

Tonight, James & Julie are taking a group of regulars to the Wickwar Brewery to see how they make their beer, sample lots of it and hopefully choose a blend of beer to be called "Hamish" and they aren't even taking me...

Tomorrow is the last night of the Celtic music lessons. Donald, Dana and Dave have been teaching groups of children (& James) how to play musical instruments and tomorrow, being as it's their last night they are having a concert to celebrate. Somehow, they have also managed to get One string Loose back as a supporting act for the children, so it should be a really good night and I'll be missing it all...

I'll hopefully be back home for the weekend to see the Tug of War and support my team when they take on The rose at Redwick. If anyone else wants to come and support us, the "tug" will start at 2.30pm at The Rose and then there is free curry for all the contestants and supporters back at The Lion afterwards along with the prizegiving.

Not Quite Myself...

I'm not feeling quite myself lately and have decided to take a break and stay with Jack & Beryl for a few days. I'll hopefully be back to my usual, fit and healthy self in a few days and back in charge at the pub. I do have access to a computer whilst I'm here (if I can get Beryl off the thing for long enough) so may give you an update in a day or so....

Another Great Picnic

We don't seem to manage to get out for the day every Tuesday, but I do think that Julie & James try and make it a special day for me and maggie most weeks and today was a very special day... I thought at first that it was going to be a day of shopping as we dropped Julie off at Marks & Spencer, but I could smell the Picnic as soon as she got back into the car. We had quite a long journey, but ended up at Talybont where we laid out our picnic. Maggie and I even had our own blanket (which Maggie later soaked) and ate fancy bite size sausages that should really have been on sticks.





Crossing the river was fun. I eventually gave up trying to stay on the stones and jumped in, but Maggie just sat there whimpering until James went and carried her across.

All was well at the pub when we got home. Our new garden lights had also been delivered which once they have been connected will mean that humans will be able to stay outside even later.

Maggie needs a Sat Nav...

I was away from the pub all day today, helping James collect the remaining belongings from our old house. Without me being there to keep an eye on her, Maggie went missing again. Julie, Chino and lots of other staff and customers were searching the streets looking for her and she eventually turned up and was sat on the doorstep when Julie staggered back from a long trek down the lanes.

The option of fitting a tracking device to Maggie has been discussed regularly, but I think she has finally pushed Julie over the edge and she will therefore, soon be rigged up to set alarm bells ringing if she sets foot outside the pub. The question is, what device will work best? If anyone has any advice please let me know and I will pass it on..

Did you know?

that I was abandoned as an 11 week old puppy.....

Somehow or another I have turned into a well balanced dog, but it could quite easily have gone the other way for me. I was bought by a lady with a funny accent (she wasn't British) who didn't have any family nearby or anybody to help her look after me when she went away to work, and so after letting me stay with her for a week or 2 she took me to a kennels and left me (It wasn't even a proper kennels, and I was locked in a dirty old portacabin, all alone with no other dogs for company) until I was rescued.....

This picture is of me and James, just after Julie had convinced him that I should go and live with them!

My Very Own Postcard!

I received my very own postcard today, which was posted all the way from Skye in Scotland by Samantha Stewart who is on a tour with her family (Crimes Against Folk)!.....Thank You x

Tintern Abbey

The sun has been out again and we all managed to sneak out for an hour this afternoon. We went to Tintern Abbey and had ice cream and played with my favourite ball on a rope. I always manage to beat Maggie to get to it when it's thrown, but what she has now learnt todo is just let me chase it and then ambush me for it when I take it back, just so she can pretend that she has retrieved it. James falls for it every time and tells her what a good girl she has been! We had a good walk and then came back to the pub, which had been left in a bit of a mess by the staff today, so Julie was very grumpy.

Since I last wrote, we have also had lots of visitors. Sophie, another of my human sisters came to stay for a few days, but she always makes more of a fuss of Doris & Duchess than she does of me and Maggie. Doris spends time in just about every house and business in the square. She pops into Snippers and Farthings most days, but on Saturday she made her way into Dawn's bedroom and was caught eyeing up her newly hatched baby chicks. Dawn managed to save them in the nick of time, but if any of them turn out to be noisy cockerels I may arrange to give Doris a bunk up so she can finish him off before he gets as noisy as the other one. Everyone else thinks that the early morning wake up call is really cool, but I like to have a lie in and can do without any more noisy Cockerels!

We also had some late night visitors on Friday night or al least that's what James is saying. Somehow he managed to lock 3 ladies in the pub. We were all getting ready for bed as it was gone 1am, when James rushed back downstairs, because he could hear some ladies in the toilets. Luckily for them he did put his dressing gown on before he went down...