Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Chasing lizards
Up half the night with Wilf. He has a very sensitive digestion and the builders pastrami strongly disagreed with it. Every hour or so there would be a scratching at the door to be let out. I took him into town in the back of the car this morning and he was unusually silent - he didn't even bark at the town dogs that congregate outside the bar. Now he's back home he's started to be a bit more adventurous and is on a tour of the fields with his little brother looking for lizards and other mischief.
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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