Louisa Parry » canines

Lily in the winter sunshine … doing what dogs do

louisa — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:02:46 +0000

I know, I thought, I’ll take a picture of the dog looking pretty running around in the hazy winter sun. I raised my phone and clicked.

And it was at that moment that Lily decided to do a poo.

Beautiful. Thanks dog. Thog.

Lily’s hectic morning

louisa — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:17:49 +0000

Oh hai:

I’m so sleepy:

So very sleepy:

No, wakey wide awake!:

No, very, very sleepy.

Lily-dog supervising the living room renovation

louisa — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:45:50 +0000

Funny faces

louisa — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:53:15 +0000

We heart working from home.

John & Lily-dog in the horses’ field

louisa — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:57:14 +0000

The woods at the end of our garden are awesome. AWESOME. They’re a mixture of ancient woodland & newer (early 20th century) plantings. They have a stream, countless springs and a canal running through/next to them. Deer, ducks and pheasants are spotted with surprising regularity and horses & cows graze on the farmland at the edges. They were a hive of industry 100+ years ago: the old quarry cliffs remain exposed, some of the dug-outs are still massive holes in the dirt, and there are the mysterious remains of structures everywhere. They were a leisure spot back then too: the shape of a large pond with man-made islands and a mini-jetty remains, and there are stone-walled lined paths & steps throughout. More recently, the eastern end hosted a prisoner of war camp (for Italian prisoners in WW2) and a fireworks factory that exploded in the 1950s or thereabouts – the shells of the buildings remain. We’ve walked in the woods almost daily for 15 months now and we regularly find new bits that we haven’t seen before. As I said, AWESOME.

Today though, we didn’t walk far – just to the horses field. Lily sprained her leg on Monday so we wanted to take it easier on her behalf. Also, we’re lazy and it was hot.

The horses’ field is down near the canal. This is the view from about halfway across the field – you can see the bridge over the canal on the left.

This is the view from the same spot facing the other way – speckled with daisies, buttercups and pink clover flowers at the moment.

(I forgot to take any pictures until I was halfway across the field – a genuine mistake but admittedly, there is a bit of a blot on the landscape when looking across the whole field from the woods: a red corrugated steel warehouse, mostly covered with trees but noticeable all the same.)

While I was taking pictures, John and Lily had a little rest in the sun:

A sunny day in a field with her favourite humans, after a dunk in the beck? Lily got a little blissed out:

Make that a lot blissed out:

Everyone got quite comfy:

Until …

There is a reason we call it the horses field… They came over to investigate/bully us out of there. So we picked ourselves up and headed back into the woods and home.

Stealing Lily dog’s soul again

louisa — Fri, 27 May 2011 09:12:48 +0000

Lily-dog does not like having her photo taken. In the year and a bit she’s been living with us, we’ve taken maybe half a dozen pictures of her that aren’t paparazzo shots of her bum in retreat.

Lily in the snow

louisa — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:01:42 +0000

Louisa & Lily’s walk in West Wood

louisa — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:00:08 +0000

While John was away at a wedding, Louisa and Lily went for a walk in West Wood.

They found a strange metal pond.

A field.

Remains of buildings.

Interesting mushrooms.

Some cows.

And some mud.

A lot of mud.

Stealing Lily-dog’s soul

louisa — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:20:24 +0000

Not at all alone with the moon – a day of company

louisa — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:00:04 +0000

1. All of Team Peach is on the bed when we wake up and we sing the ‘Team Peach on the Bed’ song. (“Team Peach on the bed, fa la la la la. Carla on the bed, La la la la la. Boron on the bed, Bee bee bee bee bee. Lily on the bed, Lil alil lil lil. Team Peach on the Bed, Carla, Bee and Lil.” Yes.)

2. We cook together for the second night in a row – last night working together filling skewers then bbqing them, today working side by side on our own mammoth creations. Cooking is usually a solitary activity, it’s nice to have company for a change.

3. He washes, I dry and we both sing along to the music.