Long and exciting day

[elingregory]

A day of firsts, in fact. My first trip to Weymouth to see my son and his girlfriend. Wilf's first long car journey. My first Starbucks coffee.

Journey was okay. Son and GF were lovely and so was their tiny flat [their last one was horrible]. I really want to explore Weymouth some time. Chesil Beach is really impressive. so are the pies from the Pies and Ale pub!

Wilf had a grumble in the car - such a boring thing to have to sit still and not chew the drivers ears - but he was very good on the whole and adored the kids. That was good because Mike was very upset when Sirius died. He called him 'silly bastard' and Sirius loved it. But as soon as he saw him Wilf threw himself into Mike's arms and adored him.

Coming home, rush hour *facepalm*, too many lights, too many cars - yuck! So we stopped for coffee.

Starbucks - yeah right. I didn't like it but couldn't stop drinking it. I think maybe it has catnip in it or something.

We're home now and just to put the cherry on top of the day - Wilf just fell in the pond, Paul did too as he tried to fish him out. Duck weed everywhere. I'm NOT laughing. Oh, no I'm not.

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[marasmine.livejournal.com]

IGD loves cars - he can bark at everything outside and nothing can get in to get him. Pest curls up in a ball and tries to ignore everything until we get there - he came trained that way or it is a natural instinct. Pest is having a bad time at the moment becase there is much furniture movement going on - new pieces of furniture have to be growled at or hidden from or both. The dogs are spending much time hiding in the kitchen, who needs fireworks to make their animals nervous?

Weymouth is a nice place and I loved Chesil Beach. Have fun visiting.

I've never had a dog fall in the pond - had one that just walked in and floated happily. Genius ran up the garden and jumped in the pond when he was two while I was weeding next to it - I think he was trying to splash me - it was a cold day and we were a bit worried about hypothermia when we fished him out,

I'm not sniggering either. Really I'm not.

[elin-gregory.livejournal.com]

Lots of people, as well as dogs, fall in our pond.

Dogs are very territorial, anything that intrudes into their space needs challenging, even if it is made of wood. :D

Sadly it was a fleeting visit but the town looked very enticing with roads as narrow and quaint as the Lanes in Brighton. We're going to try and organise a proper little holiday there in the spring.