Spike on the move!

Here he is - our little coughing pet! He was walking across the field and coughing - maybe he had hayfever - we had just mowed!

Alf n Mindy x

A visitor called 'Spike'

Hey everyone - what a gorgeous day it has been today here in Derbyshire, except for the fact that pinky decided she would bath us! What a mistake that was - guess who got the wettest? Not us that's for sure!

Anyway - Pinky has been gardening today and mowing and pruning - things that these pinkies seem to get carried away with! At least the greenhouse is nearly empty now and the summer plants are in!

Mindy and I kept disapearing and getting really excited - but Pinky couldn't smell it...........so we were made to stay where she could see us until we'd forgotten about the smell..........

Then when Dad came home - there it was - sat by the car...............Spike the Hedgehog!

Mindy had to be put away in the muppet pen as she was just beside herself with excitement! I just sniffed and went to bed!

I'll leave you with a video of him!

Alf n Mindy x

Muppets Day Out

Hi there everyone,

We're still around and haven't been taken away by Aliens!! A couple of Sunday's ago we had a lovely early morning walk in the sunshine before it got too warm for us before everyone else had got up. We walked down some lovely lanes and through a Rape Seed Field - that made us all sneeze and cough! It was beautiful though against the blue sky.

We have been keeping the builder on his toes - and especially the carpenter who came to make the roof! It was great fun!! I've attached some pictures of Mindy looking up the step ladders to the new bedroom - probably wondering how we are going to get up there to nap on the big bed! We haven't told her that we have to knock through from the spare bedroom!

Alf has been playing at riding in the wheel barrow after his hard day at work supervising the loading of the skip - he gets a ride back to the house! I only sit in it but won't let them push me around! Alf's soft!

Best go - catch you all soon.

Mindy and Alf xxx

Free Range Muppet!!

Hi there

I can't believe how long it has been sincy Pinky updated our blog. We are always nagging at her to get it done, and there is always something more important. Nevermind she's doing it now - we are sat with her barktating to her - she doesn't quite understand what we are on about but we can put her right as we go along.

Well the building work is coming along nicely - we shall attach some piccies later when we get back from work! Alf has been supervising and even kept the carpenter up the scaffold because he was too scared to get down as Alf was at the bottom of the ladders!! It was so funny - he had to wait until Pinky had stopped mowing the lawns so that she could hear him shouting for help! It was really, really great!! - by Mindy

Well for the last week Mindy has been let off her lead on our morning walks - and she has done fantastically well! She chases after her ball and comes back everytime she is called! Although luckily no-one goes up the public footpath at 6.30am in the morning - maybe if she saw someone else it would be a different story - but she's fine at the moment! There are a few gaps in the hedges that she sticks her head through but comes back when she's told! I on the other hand - ignore her and walk along sniffing and watering the flowers! - by Alf

We are off down to Cornwall soon for a long weekend - I'm hoping to get a week in down there but we'll see!

Catch you all soon - and promise it won't be so long next time.

Licks and sniffs

Alf n Mindy x

Mindy goes missing!

Hi Alf here. I must write and tell you about Mindy going missing last night in the howling wind and pouring rain!

We were let out at about 9.00pm and pinky didn't realise it was raining so off we go - she then starts watching TV and suddenly said at 9.20 - oops I forgot the muppets are outside!

So in I came (like a good boy) called for Mindy - nowhere to be seen or heard! Well they wouldn't see would they - we live in the middle of nowhere and it was dark - the lights were on but they're not that bright! (Neither is Mindy!).

So we called, whistled, shook the biscuit tin, clanged the dish with a fork and shouted "MUPPET MEAT". No Mindy. Pinky went into a panic and started charging round the field looking for signs of a missing dog! Daddy pinky who has far more intelligence had a look in the muppet pen - and there she was - she had gone in and the wind had blew the gate shut! She was stood behind it wagging her tail! Needless to say - we were all happy and could go back in the warm!

Mummy Pinky still can't understand why she didn't bark! Maybe she was enjoying watching them rush around!

Anyway - she's having a bit of an Airedo again this afternoon - 1/2 an hour a day - her fur grows that quick - she looks like a woolly mammoth most of the time!

Alf x

Building Work Underway!

Hey guys,

Alf here - long time again and no writing! I've been so busy and Pinky has been to busy to do my audio typing for me. I record it all and she types it up - unfortunately this is a busy time for her at work - but it's underway now! You'll just have to bear with me until she can put the pics on!

Well the building is coming along - as you may know we had to wait for some sunlounge steel beams to be delivered as there is alot of glass in the building we have to have steel beams installed so that they support the weight of the tiles on the roof! I stayed out of the way to be honest when the beams were put in - as I didn't want to get squashed - the pinkies did 2 of them and then the builder helped with the biggest and heaviest one on Saturday last week - Mummy Pinky supervised!

We now have to get the scaffolders in so that we can carry on with the brickwork on the upstairs part of it! It's all action here - we were called off the job last week though as the winds here were so bad - I almost got blew over.

Mindy doesn't supervise the building work - she spends time poking around in Al's van looking for food! (Typical girl!).

Yesterday we had some friends come up from Gloucester for the day - Wendy - went to school with my Pinky since they were 3 - so you can imagine how long they've been friends for!!! I did my usual stare out job at them but they weren't scared - so I gave up in the end. Mindy was embarassing as usual and wouldn't leave the alone and kept going back to them for fuss! We all went for a lovely walk in the afternoon after dinner - as the rain had stopped and the sun came out. We walked down some lovely public footpaths across fields - then we came across a stile - not a problem to some dogs - but I don't do agility and to make matters worse - it was under water too! I had to get underneath a rail and got soaked - it took me ages and there was mention of us all having to turn round and go back the way we had come! No way were they going to blame for that! So I went through - and guess what was round the next corner! Yes you've guessed it another 2! I eventually got through - Mindy just cleared them with pinky on the end of the lead! The last one was awful it was flooded and everyone had wellies on but me - so they walked right through - I walked around the edge and got brambles in my face - but that's better than getting my feet wet! Mindy was filthy it came to the top of her front legs - but she wasn't bothered. It was a shame the camera had been left behind though!

Anyway - that's it from me for now - I'll leave you with some pictures!

Alf x

February 2008!

Well hello again!

It's been pretty wet by us just lately so not much has been going on, apart from having feet wiped every time we venture outside and back in again!

We have started to have an extension to our house so there is mud a plenty that keeps Mindy amused for hours! We had the foundations dug out last Sunday - and we had to get them covered over with wood to stop us from falling down the holes - it is so hard now to get in the house, before we had 2 steps now we have to jump!!! Mindy was caught doing her own excavation - she was going like the clappers! What gave it away though was her grunting whilst digging! If only the camera had of been to paw!

I'm supervising the build as I did before when we built the garage, just so that the builders know who's in charge! Although Mindy was found in the back of the builders van helping herself to his lunch box! No manners that one!

I'll get pinky to download some photos later - and will get them on here as soon as I pawsibly can!

Yours

Alf x