Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Sheepdogs at sunset
A great day. The weather has held up which is just as well as the builders have left the garden a mass of earth just waiting to be turned into deep gelatinous mud with the onset of rain. The gardeners came to lay the pipes for the irrigation system ( we never needed one of those in Scotland) and for the outside lights. We've opted for LED lights along the drive - they are a bit more expensive but only use 1/60th of the power of a standard light - another step on our path to being carbon neutral. Clocks change tonight .
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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