Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Monday, 26 January 2009
Digby waiting for the family to return.
Glorious morning - the boyz were out for their morning walk as the sun was rising over the mountains. It was a typical expedition - a mad rush out and then a gentle saunter home investigating each rock, sniffing each flower and sploshing in every puddle. Digby has now noticed that he has been left alone with me and is patiently sitting by the gate waiting for the family to return.
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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