This weekend the sun shone.
And perhaps that is worthy of a headline of its own!
So I headed off to Crosby beach, on the edges of Liverpool with 2 friends, 2 dogs and 3 children. The kids had fun with the Antony Gormley statues (they are all at the age where a naked man is quite hilarious) (aren’t we all?) and the two dogs went absolutely crazy, much to the amusement of other people on the beach. Sadly Pippy doesn’t look at her most attractive when she’s wet – my partner uncharitably refers to her as a “skinny drowned rat”. She certainly goes from beauty queeen to scruffy pup very easily!
Pippy is now 14 months old and my friend’s dog, Splash, is only a couple of months older, so they both love to play. It’s strange how some dogs just hit it off, I suppose in the same way that we as humans just hit it off with some people and not others. It’s great for dogs to be dogs and play like that – some people seem to get quite worried as soon as their dogs show their teeth to another, but it’s just playing, that what dogs do. Pippy and Splash never stopped from the moment we arrived to when we loaded them both back into the van at the end of the afternoon, both absolutely filthy. Even when we got back to my friends’ house they still carried on – by which time the “over-tired” expression would have been used if they’d been kids!
On Sunday my daughter and I took Pippy litter picking with us to a local park. A small group of people have got together to go round some of the local parks once a month or so and do a couple of hours picking up litter.
My daughter had the litter-picker and I held the bin bags – and the dog! As the park is one that we visit quite regularly, it was great to be able to put something back into the community – but shocking to see the amounts of litter that some people just throw away. As a dog walker I’m even more conscious of things like broken glass and leftover food, both of which can be dangerous to our dogs, and other animals and birds as well. So this is something we’ll be doing again.
Pippy's Farmhouse Bakery 