The next few weeks It is amazing how fast Zabel is growing – the little puppy we first got a few weeks has grown so big in such a short space of time. Even though she is bigger she still draws a huge amount of attention every time I bring her for a …
So my last post finished with “So far so good”… Well, this week at the office has been a completely different experience as Zabel is getting a bit bigger and seems to require more stimulation ie my attention. Which means it is getting increasingly difficult to get work done as she keeps jumping up …
The Next FEW Weeks So the girls are back at school so Zabel will have to start coming to work with me from this week. We were told that as pups they can only walk for maybe 5-10 mins at a time, so as my office was about 20 minutes walk. I looked at options …
This year I decided to take on a personal no buying challenge. I wanted to see if I could buy nothing for an entire year. So far so good I have not bought anything for myself, I did, however, have to buy some stuff for our newly acquired puppy – more on that later. So …
The first few weeks was like having a new baby in the house and Zabel was treated like royalty. Things were made a little easier as the kids were still on school holidays so the whole toilet training and “quick quick” process went well. Although in fairness from day one when we got her home, …
So as I said in my last post there has been great excitement in our household since been given the actual date of picking up our foster guide dog puppy. The count down to 10th January 2019 has begun and Christmas has taken second place this year as the number of sleeps are being counted until …
It all started while I was Christmas shopping recently in our local Westfield and looked around at the number of shopping bags that people had… seemed crazy people buying Christmas for people that will never use those gifts. Seemingly a huge percentage of Christmas gifts are returned each year or never used. Its not …
That’s all we have been hearing for the past 18 months… When we moved to Australia back in 2010 we promised the kids that we would get them a dog to help them settle in. So shortly after we moved here we got them a Maltese Terrier puppy which we called Bailey as he was …
One of the issues of being a half-blind DIY Dad is that I am a bit like the Karate kid when doing some of my DIY chores “Glasses on – Glasses off, Glasses on – Glasses off” They are on when I am doing the big stuff outdoors, but off when I need to do …
Oh the joy of being the parent of a teenage daughter and rising to the challenge of helping to organise a 15 year old birthday party. D1 decided to have a birthday party at home this year and couldn’t decide on a theme, it went from a disco to fancy dress to an outdoor movie. …