Our friends (Dan & Kim) moved from Bath to Aberystwyth earlier this year and now that they are settled we decided it was time to pay them a visit! I met Dan when we worked together about 15 years ago and we have always kept in touch - you know sometimes how someone comes in …
Trip # 5 in Albus – My Best Friends Wedding and The Welsh 3000 challenge
When your best friend lives an 8 hour drive away and is getting married, the best thing to do is turn it in to a road trip 🙂 We set off the afternoon before the wedding and headed North. We took our time stopping regularly for breaks as it was warm (less so the further …
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Trip# 4 in Albus – Climbing in Portland
Leon had planned a day trip to meet a friend to go climbing for the day. At the last minute we decided to make a weekend of it as we needed cheering up and I didn't wan't to be left home alone. I am still finding the house too quiet and empty since we lost …
Trip #2 in Albus – The NC500
So this is it, the reason we bought the camper van.....a 12 night trip around the Scottish Highlands. We planned to take the route known as the NC500 (North Coast 500) which starts at Inverness and heads West, follows the West Coast up to Durness, then the North Coast road East to John O'Groats and …
Hello 2017….let’s get some adventures under way!
So, the Christmas and New Year break were busy for Zephyr 🙂 I made lots of plans to continue to work on his ever growing confidence (have i mentioned just how proud I am of him lately??). The first few years may have seem so terribly slow and soul destroying, but we are now reaping …
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Small Steps make Giant Leaps
We have been working on building Zephyr's confidence pretty much constantly since he came to live with us. He has always struggled to go anywhere other than the field next to our house. When we have taken him to other places it has always been with the support of another dog.... that was until recently …
Snuffle Time
When you go on holiday in the UK during November it is a good idea to have some 'rainy day plans'. For me this year, that included attempting to make a snufflemat for the dogs. The idea of a snufflemat is for there to be lots of layers for a dog to snuffle about in …
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New Sofa!!! (Well, it is actually second hand, but new to us) Why so excited? Do you remember what Zeph did to the old one? I have tried hard to forget, but lets just say it was EPIC! Anyway, it has been 2 years since we had a sofa but now think Zeph is at a …
2015 in Pictures 33/52
I took a week off of work to try and catch up with all of my TTouch case studies - I need to hand my next 5 in next month....where has the time gone????? I am a huge fan of the ground work involved and am always on the look out for new surfaces for …
2015 in Pictures 32/52
Our friend Isla and Stevie came to stay for a few days. Zephyr met Stevie a couple of years a go when he came to visit and kept his distance. We were amazed to see how keen Zephyr was to interact with Stevie during this visit and it really highlighted the progress he has made! …
