HOLIDAYS.

Mabel and Morris : This is going to be a biggie because we have been away and have been visiting places, meeting new things and an awful lot of new people! It all started at the beginning of February. We left, duriing the night of the first and arrived on the Isle of Wight in the morning. It was our first ferry ride. We were allowed in the main salon because we were so well behaved.

The weather wasn't great but we soon settled in. We went to a beach in Yaverland A LOT. There we could run for ages, play ball, try and attack each other and meet new dogs. It was a really friendly place.

We also discovered Apply beach which we both adored. It was busy and we met lots of new admirers. We played golf, with Ewen, at Freshwater and the people there remembered us , but not Ewen, when we played again.

We walked to see the Needles. Bit scary steep!!

We went to a big house where we fitted in well.

The whole island was really dog friendly, bars, cafes and even restaurants. We were different from any other dog there, so we got a lot of attention.

But that went to a new level when we went to the Cotswolds. There are lots of Asian visitors in the Cotswolds and they hadn't seen dogs like us before. They either avoided us as if we had fleas or they wanted a picture of us......and even wanted their picture taken holding us. It was tiring but Mabel, in particular, showed off. We visited lots of lovely wee villages and towns. We visited Bath and ate out. We went to Glouscester and Cheltenham, Chepstow and Quenington and Bibury and Burford.

Then we went to Oxford and had our picture taken with a bunch of lovely Japanese people who kept stroking us and saying ooooo. In the pub we were surrounded by Australians who reckoned we would be good for the rabbits........ and we got our picture taken. All this fame and attention is lovely but sooooo exhausting It's just cause we're big dogs. Luther, Orry and Murphy would have been the same. All the dogs we saw were wee, apart for the odd Labrador. We had a fab time but getting back to our own beds was just bliss.