Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Thursday, 11 December 2008
Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers - wet,bored and indoors.
It is still pouring down with rain,the Tiber has burst its banks, the state of the local roads is even more parlous than usual ( potholes swell alarmingly here ) and I'm at home with two damp and bedraggled sheepdogs . The boyz are exhausted after a long morning spent barking at the hungry wild boar that come out of the forest to forage among the olives. They are now towel dried and snoring in front of the fire. It's 13 degrees here, minus 2 in Scotland and snow is forecast for New Orleans. All in all Umbria is not a bad place to be.
2004 - We sell the farm in Scotland and move to the warmth of southern Europe. 2 lively Polish Lowland Sheepdogs - Wilf and Digby - our patient and comical companions. After a year in Provence we head to Italy to restore a hilltop Roman watchtower . Following an unpleasant 'housejacking' in late 2009 we set off for new adventures in South West Franceto get to grips with a large and exceedingly rickety old farmhouse. Empty nesters life after the violence of Italy has a gentler tempo. Digby passed on from piroplasmosis in May 2010. HIs brother, despite being diagnosed with cancer and having become blind ,soldiered on for another two years. Bob and Sophie joined us in 2013. Bob passed on in 2019. Sophie enjoyed the fresh air in Scotland after we returned in late 2022 but ran ahead in the summer of 23. This blog records all those little things about living with dogs that are too unimportant to make it into a diary but which make life, life.
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