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wrong basket 25 Jan 2012 4:48 PM (13 years ago)

For several years Flo has had a penchant for the wrong basket. Like many dogs 'of a certain age' she muddles the scale.



But in the meantime, the dogs in her pack have got even smaller, and the baskets have shrunk accordingly.

It doesn't stop her taking over the terriers' territory though when there is a lack of alternatives.


 

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spring 13 Oct 2011 3:37 PM (13 years ago)

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seconds 4 Sep 2011 10:01 PM (13 years ago)

From the archives:

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2006
compliment
Flo received her first ever unsolicited compliment the other day as we walked down the street. What a lovely dog, said a passing woman.(I think the first inklings of spring had clouded her judgement)


Flo received her second ever unsolicited compliment today as we walked along the street. Again - with the spring...This time a man pulled up, and wound down his window, I thought to ask directions.

I just wanted to say, that is a lovely looking bluey! He's beautiful!

Thank you. Yes she's great. (well, I'm thinking, it's true; she's mellowed)

I just wanted to know where she came from?

(Mars) Well, she's about 12, and all I know is she came from the Ballarat region...

Great looking bluey

Yes. She is... (But see my blog 2003-11 for the journey from nutcase to mellow senior)
 

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clothes lines 14 Jun 2011 9:37 PM (13 years ago)



tree tries to undermine clothes line

 

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new camera 9 Jun 2011 8:56 PM (13 years ago)



old saucepans
 

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k 2 9 Jun 2011 6:30 PM (13 years ago)


K dog (curbee) turned 2 yesterday. I wrote this in late February, a year after adopting him.

Sunday marked the first anniversary of the arrival of K.
A year since we drove up through drought-weary Victoria and met him in a pound in the middle of paddocks next to an abattoir. He had spent the night there next to a storm-spooked ridgeback who barked all night. When the cell door opened he greeted us warily, a ball of nerves gradually uncurling. He was smaller than his photos. He looked like a mini-Jack Russell. But his wariness made him seem a fraction of the size of Bronte, the recently deceased JRT whose personality would fill a room.

Perhaps looking for an out, I said to the Ranger - "Oh dear - I don't think he likes me"
"It takes a little time" he said, and presented his closed palm to K's nose, a gesture of experience that quelled the fear-aggression; the hand was duly sniffed.

And we duly took him, with silent reluctance and trepidation. The weight of commitment.

I held him all the the way home, as he watched his territory disappear.



We don't know the mix. I missed the opportunity to get a discount-rate DNA-swab (at the Melbourne Show) to determine whether he's JRT + chihuahua, fox terrier or cat. We lean to the chihuahua theory, the Jack-ahua-hua or Jack-a-chi, because there are the moments of small frenzy we call the chi. Some things set him off, like shuffling feet, golf putting practice sets, and birds. Birds, in particular, make him squeak. It is very unpleasant, you would hate it, and it would probably take a herd of dog whisperers to arrest. We need to beam up cesar to zap the yap. He gets away with this obnoxious habit in general because the noise is lost on ovals near freeways...
3/2/11

...


Defending his behaviour to friends, my leniency, I would often say: he's still learning to trust us. Still? they'd ask.
Yes, even 16 months down the track that still holds.
It's a gradual thing and gradually in a little time it kicks in.

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proning 48 21 May 2011 4:23 AM (13 years ago)




prone and wearing a bathing suit
 

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crossed lines 19 May 2011 6:08 PM (13 years ago)

Crossed Lines: Vivien calls Bette




via we've made enchantment
 

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uncredited 23 Apr 2011 3:01 AM (14 years ago)


 

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strangers 6 Apr 2011 10:08 PM (14 years ago)




One of the most recorded songs in history...


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wv 25 Mar 2011 5:39 PM (14 years ago)



 

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peer 13 Feb 2011 8:12 PM (14 years ago)

My thanks to Lord Sedgwick for sending this intriguing search request our way.

(And here I was thinking it might be somewhere near Gunnamatta).

 

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heart-tugging 31 Jan 2011 5:21 PM (14 years ago)

But I will always remember him for the heart-tugging sentimentality of Born Free. It's a broad range for which John Barry could be justly proud.
 

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rules 13 Dec 2010 5:40 PM (14 years ago)

to go all twitteresque/RT:

The lack of established rules was what made the web fun

- quoted by things

from the story of Suck.com
 

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beatl-ist 7 Dec 2010 8:03 PM (14 years ago)

30 years ago... Dick Jones

On a less sad note:
Beatles Poster. 10 great years via the presurfer

Watched JL Naked.
will be of interest mainly to Beatle completists

(I like the sound of the phrase: beatles compleatist.
Is a completist the best fan or a lesser beast?)
 

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victorians 25 Nov 2010 3:10 PM (14 years ago)

Victorians who have taken hat tricks

read the text on Channel 9 news last night. Did not add, for example,

Victorians who have dropped a catch on a hat trick by Victorian
 

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cool redux 11 Nov 2010 3:38 PM (14 years ago)




 


I've been feeling a bit spooked re: © so I will remove the cropped image of man at C. (with embedded link to source) and replace with description of photo to be found at end of click.
The description style adopted is one we referred to four years ago.

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overheard 2 Nov 2010 11:03 PM (14 years ago)

We broke up in 2001

September 11 actually

As you do

In Paris
Overheard while walking dogs
Joggers.
With Boxing gloves.
 

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tilt it 17 Oct 2010 10:42 PM (14 years ago)

via Neatorama

Pouring champagne into a glass is far from being consequenceless with regard to its dissolved CO2 concentration.
On the Losses of Dissolved CO2 during Champagne Serving

Apparently sparkling wine is best poured into a tilted flute, although I'm inclined to agree with the comment at Neatorama, that champagne
... is best poured into a slipper, while atop a round fur rug, in front of a fire, while listening to Al Green...

 

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yes terday 15 Oct 2010 12:48 AM (14 years ago)

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cool 11 Oct 2010 6:59 PM (14 years ago)

his coolness traverses centuries....

Update see


 

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airwomen 11 Oct 2010 5:32 PM (14 years ago)

A group of airwomen
 

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funny familiar 3 Oct 2010 9:29 PM (14 years ago)

Funny, Familiar...
 

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imaginings 15 Sep 2010 5:37 PM (14 years ago)

'horsey' is an attachable bicycle ornament/accessory which makes one's bicycle look horsey!
via the Presurfer


I have previously mused on one's childhood imaginings that would make one's bicycle look horsey, linking it to one's fondness for the TV show, National Velvet.
Which suggests that nothing much changes in blogging, but youtube keeps on giving.
Because now there's more data from one's childhood viewing habits, with part of this particular episode appearing:



One found this episode frightening. As did one's friends.

 

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