Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Friday, 19 June 2009
Evening thoughts
Waiting for the better half to return from London I've been reading the new Oxford University history of Germany . Skimming the pages I came across the following comment by Martin Niemoller,a former concentration camp inmate, who wrote in 1945 about the German church during the war : " We reproach ourselves for not witnessing more courageously,for not praying more faithfully,for not believing more joyously,and for not loving more ardently". Even today , no matter what ones creed or belief it's not a bad guide for life in a troubled world.
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.
1 comment:
We have to agree.
And a beautiful picture.
Lynn
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