Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Thursday, 16 July 2009
The plan didn't work.
I thought that by getting the two boyz up early and rushing them around in the cool of the early morning they might sleep all through the heat of the afternoon. The plan which worked so well yesterday has failed miserably today. It's well over 100 degrees out and Wilf and Digby are full of life and raring to go - far from being exhausted by the early morning start they seem to be re-energised. Every three or four minutes one of them arrives in the office and drops a ball at my feet.I've played with them indoors for what seems to be hours and both master and dogs can hardly wait for the temperatures to moderate a bit so that we can get out.
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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