Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Monday, 20 April 2009
The boyz turn head on into the first of the summer winds
A strong warm wind has started to blow up from Algeria and Libya bringing with it a mass of fine sand and dust that coats all the garden furniture. The arrival of the wind is a pretty good sign that the heat is at long last on its way and the cold fronts are slowly being pushed back further and further north towards the Alps. The boyz are standing outside facing into the wind and looking vaguely aerodynamic with their fur flying every which way. They seem to love the wind, it fluffs up their fur and manages to keep them both warm and cool at one and the same time. It won't be long before I have to take a deep breath and get the clippers out for their short summer cut.
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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