WARM!!

Mabel : I have a delightful week. I have sunbathed and lazed outside on the garden furniture, which has come out of the shed and covers for the summer. Could be a bit early because we have snow forecast? Been lovely though and we have had some glorious walks. We've been back to Redpath. I love that walk. Thousands of smells and then a HUGE field to run around in. Brilliant. And then we get a wee bit of ice cream.

Morris : I do like a bit of ice cream. We know it's meant to be bad for dogs but a wee bit, every now and again, is just fabulous. As to our walks, she is so right. Redpath is brilliant and so are our early morning runs up the hill. We can't get in so many areas here because it's lambing time. It was bizarre the other day. Mabel and I were wearing our reflective jackets and the ewes and lambs came running over to see us and then followed us along the road, still baaing and bleating. They don't do it if we don't have our coats on. Weird. Same thing happened last year.

APRIL

Morris: Been a lot of early morning, late morning and generally anytime walking. The weather is warmer so even Pam is coming on walks. She says she's coming out of hibernation. Anyway, long walks with her, on the lead, means lots of smells but no running around.

Mabel: This means that Morris goes absolutely mental when he gets home. He runs up and down the corridor, assaults my bat cave bed and tries to scare me. I go and lie in his bed and keep out of the way. Then he attacked our pig toy and made it oink for a good five mintues. In the end, he gave up.