Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Thursday, 16 April 2009
All barked out..time for a game.
The two boyz have spent the day contentedly yapping at the array of builders and workmen who have shown up to work in the house and garden. It is almost as if they feel they let the family down by not stopping the burglars from coming into the house. They are now over compensating by ensuring that no one will come within 50 yards of the front door without a cacophony of barking. Interestingly, for two such independent dogs they now like to keep within eye sight of one of us.As soon as the last of the workmen go I'll take them out for half an hour of quality ball throwing time. There is one of those strange warm winds blowing up from the Sahara which brings with it a lot of dust and promises a most amazing sunset. I'll try to take a picture if it lives up to expectations and post it later.
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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