Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Waiting, ready and willing to skype...


Hello mummy,

I have been putting the skype headset on at 7 every morning, waiting to talk to you.....

Monday, September 22, 2008

Some dogs....

Hello darling Mummy,
Here is a kiss....

We have had a visitor at Dickens Street for a couple of days. A 2 year-old King Charles Spaniel called Buddy. - Boy, please don't think that I am being a snob, but he must have been behind the door when brains were being given out! We went for a walk along the Boulder Bank - a 13km long natural breakwater (not that we were going to walk all the way along it!!) Well, Buddy is a bit fixated on birds, and he took off after some seagulls - I tell you mummy, he is oblivious to the world around him when he sees birds. He ran onto a farm, and...whooops - ran straight over the edge of a 4m deep concrete-lined silage pit! I have never seen Elaine and Sharon SO white. Anyway, no brains, no pain - he got up and trotted back to Elaine! - He didn't move far from her after that, though - amazing.

Elaine has been trying to catch me playing with the silly boy - I am too clever for her - every time she gets the camera out, I stop and pose. You will have to make do with video of Louis playing with Buddy.



Here I am enjoying the beautiful spring sunshine!

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Walking on sunday

Hi there Mummy,
Well at last we have had some nice weather in Nelson. On sunday we went for a walk up the Barnicoat Range again, but instead of following the track that gives such beautiful views, we followed a ridge track up the valley to the river. Part of the track had washed away with a HUGE slip (would you believe that Louis -dippy boy- tried to run down the slip - a bit scary as it is still moving....) Here I am reassuring Elaine that I am NOT that silly! When we got to the river, it was too high to cross over at the ford, so we had to walk back along the track. The weather is glorious, but supposed to rain again later this week - ho hum, it'll be good when the rain stops!

Do you know that it is only 143 sleeps until I see you again!

Lots of love,

Bollie Mathematician dog

XXX