Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Saturday, 7 February 2009
Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers sheltering from a thunderstorm.
It has suddenly started to pour with rain here in Umbria - heavy, continuous, and unrelenting. What started out as a perfect day changed at lunchtime when a front blew in from Tuscany. The man in the fresh pasta shop was almost depressive about the weather - the wettest winter in fifty years according to his father! The boyz are full of vim and vigour and are itching to get outside and into the puddles. When it eases off a bit I'll walk them up the hill and then spend twenty minutes toweling them dry.
The peculiar Amanda Knox murder case is underway in Perugia - I really can't make head nor tail of it. Is it possible that the prosecutions claims of satanic rituals and drug enduced sex games will stand up to cross examination?
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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