Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Sunday, 5 April 2009
The first swallow of the season
On the morning walk with the boyz saw the first swallows of the year. It's always a sure sign that summer is (finally) on its way. The pair of falcons that are nesting in the old ruined house on the hill are still there and flying around so presumably there are no little ones to look after this year. On the radio this morning the top three stories were 1) Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi single handedly convinces the Turks that the Danish PM should become the new Secretary General of NATO 2) the Pope has started Holy Week celebrations in Rome and 3) in the Meredith Kerchermurder case a witness has said that more than one person was involved in the killing.
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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