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New line of work?

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    I have spent many hours on my colouring, but decided to give water colour a go after seeing a pack of small canvas boards in a local charity shop. After getting a book (from another charity shop) about how to use watercolour as a medium and help from Niki who runs our local arts and craft shop I was set to go. Who knows what will come next.

What a view

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Taken from my back garden yesterday afternoon.

My goodness, it just keeps getting better….

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Colouring! One of my long time hobbies for relaxing.  

New Life….

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  Sadly, our beloved dog Daisy passed away suddenly in June, leaving us heartbroken.   No reason or explanation, just a sad goodbye in her last minutes.  At least we were with her. We are now “chumans” to Oscar.  He does not replace Daisy but has become part of our family.  He is settling in and getting used to living in a house.  His usual lifestyle was to be kept outside.   I am letting him and the cats find their own place in the pecking order.  Seems to be working so far. Oscar is about half the size of Daisy so we had to make the garden safe.  €300 and them some.  Oooppps, miss a bit so he took himself off for a little run,  thankfully it didn’t take long to find him and he does answer to his name.  Double checked fence and think it is ok now.  The escape was through the back of the log store! We have been dealing with high temperature for weeks now, and had to stop watering the plants so garden has been shut down early.  I must say I enjoyed working on it but crops not very good.

Expecting Daisy’s ashes

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We have been busy making a special place in the garden where we can scatter Daisy’s ashes which we are expecting to be returned to us today.  The spot is where after scoring a ‘goal’ into the swimming pool with her beloved football, and zooming around the garden, she would have a quick dig, thinking we didn’t know what she was up to. We have also made her house into a place for her toys and bits and pieces.  We could not bring ourselves to get rid of them.  It would seem cruel. Daisy and our cats always had a love/niggled/ oh, OK then/live relationship.  Much the same with Big Ted, who was a gift to me from my sister some years ago.  I think their relationship was more “you keep to your space and I will patrol the rest”.  It seemed to work. Big Ted wanted to look his very best for the occasion so borrowed a couple of things from Mr D - and looks very smart. It’s going to be tough, but hopefully will provide us with some comfort. Thanks for reading.

In memory of our darling dog, Daisy

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 Sleep tight, we all miss you. xxx

New sunset post

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Sunset through the tree this evening.  How wonderful!