Ball gone missing

My lovely birthday ball went missing, I've found bits of its stuffing but the ball is no where to be found. However, whilst searching for it I found an open drawer and in there was another sort of ball. This one was hard and smelly, I brought it downstairs to play with and chew a bit. When I started breaking bits off it left foamy bits in my mouth that tasted disgusting so I left it alone and went to find my GirlBean, she took one look at me with white lather all round my mouth and promptly dunked my head in the water bucket which also filled with the foamy stuff, so she threw it away, filled the bucket with lovely fresh water and then did it again and not only that but she poured water into my mouth and rubbed round my teeth - yuck! But it got rid of the foul taste and the foam.

It's my Birthday!

Today I am ONE!!!!

I like birthday's.

I got a soft football, two pairs of socks of my very own and a purple softie that might be a cat or could be a dog but what ever it's called 'Purple Thing', it's got beads in it and it's brill for throwing around. The ball's good for that too and for pulling out the stuffing which is squishy and wiry, strange but nice.


Sorry about the long break, I have been keeping my blog, but just not finding time to post it online. I'll get Bean to post it somewhere and give you a link.

gardens in the rain

We had a busy weekend, on Saturday I got two walks, the first with both M+J and the second on my own, and we played for hours in the garden, the beans were moving bits of garden around – very strange. Sunday was one longish walk to collect the paper from the post office but then it started raining and it seems that beans aren't waterproof like me, I know I get wet but my skin stays warm and dry – it's really good, I just shake and go. Instead of another walk we played fetch indoors and wreck the cardboard box, I'm very good at that, but after tea I still had lots of energy and was rather bored so I asked Cara to play and she said yes but the beans said no – boring old beans. So I snoozled for a bit and then woke ready to go again and this time my bean gave me a kong stuffed with bread and cheese, that was lovely and kept me quiet for a while, until almost bed time.

Today I've been having 'serious training' I'm not sure about this, it involves lovely meaty treats, today it was corned beef, but it also means having to behave and if I forget myself, which if I'm honest I do rather easily, I'm a Gemini with a butterfly brain apparently, then I get pulled into line and growled at or ignored and I don't like that.

I'm back!

I'm not very good at this – when we're near computers all I do is sleep, work is sooooo boring.

But when we're not near computers – wow, can I go.

I'm nearly all growed up now and am wearing grown up clothes – meaning yesterday I took off my second puppy collar and when I'm at home I don't wear another one, just my dogskin. Although unlike J+M I still wear a collar when out and about along with my lovely burgundy slip lead. I got a brand new snazzy black leather collar yesterday but the Mother Bean says I look like a rotweiler – rotten thing. We go out nearly every day to fetch the newspaper from the Post Office, I'm very good at this. Then sometimes we go again but now it's usually dark and we need the portable light (Maia says it's a torch and I must start using the proper words) so sometimes we play fetch indoors or in the garden which I think I like even better than going out in the dark on a string. But a bad thing now all big is that I don’t seem get supper any more, I have once this week but it was hardly worth calling supper more of a snack, still a Labrador never turns her nose up at anything even vaguely edible.

Ah, so that's what's it's for.

I didn't like to write before as it's been very difficult and has upset the household no end – but at last I understand. The puppy really is for me. We went for a proper, off the lead, walk down the incline and Hebe came too. It was brilliant she ran with me and I was brave enough to run out of sight of the Girl. I've not felt able to do that on my own, so that's absolutely ages ago since Juno last came for real walks with us. I ran and ran and ran and Hebe ran too but she did begin to tire and she can't really run as fast as me but even so it was great. I hope we go again soon.

sorry, folks - I've been busy.

I've been very busy - too busy to tell you all about it. But when I write it down it sounds rather boring.

I've done lots of walking, a bit of training, been out in the big black car on the back seat wearing my green harness (which has had to be let out a couple of times) and in the dog compartment with Maia. But nothing really exciting has happened. We go to work, I sleep, I go out, I sleep some more, we finish work, we eat, I go for a walk, I torment the hound a bit, we watch the box with the moving pictures, especially the game with the oval ball which makes the Beans very excited, we all go to bed – and that's it really. Although I have been making some discoveries when not sleeping.

I like I like loo roll, just like the puppy on the television (all loo roll now removed from range –Beans are rotten).

I like gardening – well I think I do, bull rushes are very tasty, sweet pea flowers are quite tasty too. But I have found some plants that fight back, there's the green one that stings and the long spiky one that grabs you which is very painful if it's your ear or nose. I also met the buzzy stripy flying things, they go crunch but apparently (according to Cara) they can make your mouth blow up – which would not be good, I have to eat. But I have discovered digging which is very good so perhaps I'll be archaeologist.

On the new front: I have several new teeth and a new collar too.

Also I got weighed, I'm now 2stone 12lbs or roughly 18kg, our scales aren't that accurate.

New teeth, new toys.

I have two new teeth – they're going to be my big teeth, I think I ate the little needley ones.

I also have a new toy – it's called Wayne Deer (new teeth have caused a speech impediment!). He's bigger than I am and lovely and soft with several sticky out bits which are perfect for testing my new teeth and working my annoying old ones. I had a purple rubber bone as well but I was rather too good at chewing and it only lasted 15 minutes before the Beans removed it.