What a view
Taken from my back garden yesterday afternoon.
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New Life….
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
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.
Dark Side of the Moon?
It is interesting that views of my blog over the last 30 days is as follows: Hong Kong - 730 Why the hell would 730 people in Hong Kong want to read a blog by and seventy something year old, retired English lady, living in Cyprus? It can’t be because they are interested in my garden, musings, pets, or any other rubbish I write. Cyprus - 41 Maybe people wonder what we find to do in this country that we have moved to. Simply answer, have you looked at the state of U.K. recently? China - 20 This one is a bit spooky, I am sure Chinese people have more important things on their minds than my rambles. U.K. - 17 I suspect most of these views will mainly be my daughter. I don’t have any other connections with England. Switzerland - 8 Over the last few months there has been a growing number of people dropping in. Australia - 1 I suspect a slight slip of the keyboard. U.S.A - 1 Definitely a slip of the keyboard. ‘Other’ - 6 What the hell is this about? Aliens? Not important enough to be i