Quantity Time

A Protest Addressed to Gail

I don’t buy your line about ‘Quality Time’
I want it in quantity; I want it now!
Forget about work. Cut loose, go beserk,
Tell the boss you’ve a dog, who needs you, and how!

I want you to stay right beside me all day
On the sofa, the bed or the chair.
I can curl on your lap, maybe take a wee nap,
You can do what you like, I just want you here.

It doesn’t seem right that it’s only at night
We’re together. How cruel that you go
To the office at dawn, only late to return,
And bored I sit waiting and watching for you.

PS from Gail: concerned readers, please be aware that Bertie is exaggerating here for dramatic or poetic effect. I only work a four day week, rarely stay late at the office and he is anyway variously entertained by his dog walker and a kind neighbour in my absence.

Hope bounces eternal...

Hooray! We are over in Torridon, it has finally stopped raining, and we are going to climb 'my mountain', Beinn Alligin.*

So the peak is in cloud, but hey, it's the middle of summer, for sure it'll clear by mid morning...

Oh dear. Perhaps I was being optimistic...

Well if you can't enjoy the view at the summit,

Then for sure you can enjoy a chicken chew before tackling the steep descent.

But I have to tell you I was not feeling in the mood to appreciate the view from the kitchen sink during my post walk paw wash...

*Note from Gail: Bertie's 'official' kennel club name is Granddach Beinn Alligin, the Granddach being from the kennels where he was bred, and Beinn Alligin being my favourite Scottish mountain.

Bertie shows the golfers how...

PS Gail notes that REAL sportsmen (i.e. Tour de France cyclists) don't run for cover either when there's a drop or two of rain….

Rodriguez wins a stage in the Pyrenees yesterday.

Fae Tibet or Torry?

So earlier this week I posted about the sad loss of two of the park 'regulars'. 

But you know what? There's always new friends to be made. 

I hadn't met this wee Tibetan terrier before, but he seems a really nice pup. 

Although I was disappointed to learn that he's a Torry loon, and not from the Himalaya after all.