Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Friday, 9 January 2009
Off shopping
It was a wonderful dawn today with the hills behind the house garlanded in red. This morning the cleaning lady is coming in to try to restore the house to a semblance of civility after the ravages of the holiday season. In order to give her some peace we have decide that rather than leave the boyz at home they will come shopping with us to the grocery store outside Todi. Having traipsed across Europe in the back of a car they seem to find going in the car both an adventure and great fun.
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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