These days, Ted looks like something off the Muppets. He is in desparate need of his twice yearly wash and hair cut which is luckily booked for the beginning of December.
I feel rather ashamed but Ted is now a croft dog who goes digging and running around in the fields. I doubt my mother would be impressed with how he looks but she would approve of how he lives.
Anyway, hopefully the dog-groomer will recreate a version of perfection and I think I will book Ted in once every three months so he doesn’t go so long and get quite as revolting!
Pepper is just lucky – she is one of those dogs who the mud doesn’t stick to because she is too busy whizzing quickly past.
No one knows how Monster stays so clean. It is one of life’s mysteries.
Meanwhile, the weather continues.
This afternoon there was a small patch of blue sky – possibly enough to patch a Dutchman’s trousers (anyone else know that phrase?)
Apparently it might calm down next Monday…. briefly.
I think we all be pleased if only for a very short time before it revs up again with a possible threat of snow!
First of all, your Mum is happy you have ted and love him, muppet look or not. As for how Monster stays gleaming white? He rubs off the dirt on Teddy.
I can remember my maternal grandmother always using the phrase “enough blue to patch a sailor’s trousers with!” on the grounds that sailors always wore blue trousers!
Thanks for your great sense of humor and posting every day.
Gloucestershire saying. “Enough blue to make a pocket handkerchief”.
I like that!
Yes, enough blue to patch a sailor’s trousers or a Dutchman’s trousers – I was brought up with the phrase too. I grew up on the East coast of Yorkshire and I think quite a few families had seafaring links. My mother’s father’s family had several master mariners and fishermen in its ancestry and I think there were marriages between seafarers on the East coast of Britain and people from the Northern European coast (which is just possibly where the “Dutch” part of the saying comes from). I was at school with two girls whose fathers were Dutch sailors and I think before my time such marriages were fairly common. Just surmising about the origin of the saying!