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Some bloggers turn out to be exactly what you expect in real life Tonight I met David from Travel Penguin ( https://travelpenguin.blogspot.com/ ) and his husband Jay In a whistle stop visit from Washington, via Ireland and London we all met up for a wonderful meal at The Castle in Conwy A lovely chatty evening. I'm off today and tomorrow before another run of nights and was only thinking of what to do tomorrow when Chic Eleanor drove past in her sporty red sports number " Darling John " she crooned out of the window " Gin and tonics Friday teatime , over a bowl of chips ..how about it?" And with a fling of a pashmina corner she was gone! What fun

Dorothy is becoming a powerful and rather energetic little dog The more confident she has become the more I have to lead her in public, so rambunctious and bouncy and excited she is when out of the house! Her main problem is her amazing ability to jump and jumping she loves to do directly at you in a wide mouthed google eyed way. With no thought of the ramifications of dirty paws and muscular legs. I am training her slowly She is always put on the lead and under control if another dog or walker approaches and when she does get too bouncy, an outstretched hand and a sharp turn sidewards often stops her in her tracks It's a work in progress. Today she had been left to run on a totally deserted walkway in the weak spring morning sun when out of the blue a middle aged woman suddenly appeared in view climbing through brambles out of a field. Dorothy was perhaps forty feet from the woman and a good sixty feet in front of me and she stopped dead still looking worried. Then I heard the wom...