YnysMon

It's ages since we hired, but I have a vague recollection that we were asked to complete a feedback form by either Ferry Marina (when Len still owned it) or NBD (before Len owned it) or both.

With Grendel (obviously) being rather occupied this week, perhaps we'd best all try to avoid being too negative about Herbie Woods - after all, Grendel has pointed out that they've been very responsive. There's probably a fine line between voicing our views on which boatyards we wouldn't consider hiring from and boatyard bashing.

I’ve downloaded various time and distance charts off the internet and mostly find them generous in their cruising times. Mind you, I hate travelling against the tide, so that probably makes a difference. I do use the Aweigh app to check what speed I’m going at though, so I’m pretty sure I haven’t been going faster than I should.

Coo - you almost rival me for detailed plans! I think I'd struggle to take 2 hours from Stracey Arms to Gt Yarmouth though. I'm sure it didn't take us that long on Water Rail, even though we'd realised we'd started off too early and kept our revs down to a minimum.

Yes, we are trying our best to remind Seren that she’s still loved. Graham’s comment this evening after walking both dogs was that it went okay but not to training class standards (as if it would!). Pozzick is getting more confident. He actually raised a paw (gently) to deter Seren this evening and he started playing with one of her tennis toy balls. That threw her, until we nudged another toy in her direction.

A quiet day today. I was out all morning as I played the organ in two churches this morning. Both very welcoming. Anyways…back to Pozzick and Seren. Graham did the sofa stint last night. Mealtimes today were a lot less noisy. Pozzick did vocalise (whine) a bit, but Seren didn’t bark as he was really good and stayed sitting. I did remind Seren that she was supposed to be sitting too. I wonder how things are this evening? Graham has taken both them with him as he is intending taking both of them for a walk whilst Harry is at band practise.

I hope they don’t just go along with the usual pubby menu. I find that boring. Whilst we can’t afford to eat out at places with astronomical prices, generally I would prefer to pay a little more for something a little different than the norm. Unless I’m really lazy (as I frequently am) why pay out for something I can easily replicate on board?

Having had the privilege of partaking, I always think of them as Grendel specials.

We’ll be keeping an eye on his weight! Currently he’s having rather too many snacks, but that will ease off as he settles in and looks less underweight. Pozzick and I accompanied Seren and Graham to the weekly agility class this morning. The classes are held in a field near the Bedfordshire village of Lavenham. It was such a beautiful morning with many of the trees just turning colour and warm sunshine. I left my phone at home to charge, so no photos unfortunately. Pozzick behaved impeccably and watched the other dogs doing their stuff. It’s a fairly advanced class so he couldn’t join in, but we hope to be able to sign him up for beginners classes before too long. Not this month though, as we have had quite a lot of additional expenditure as it is.

Graham has worked out how much food he needs and has posted instructions up on the fridge exactly how many scoops of food each of the dogs have each mealtime (morning and evening). His parents had a collie when he was a child that ended up looking like a barrel, manly because Graham’s dad kept feeding her titbits each meal. So, Graham is very focussed on feeding the right amount.

We think he’s already put on some weight. You should have seen him when we rescued him, which is why the first thing Graham did after we got him onto Water Rail was to feed him. Hes still behaving each mealtime as though he’s desperate for food and unsure if he’ll ever be fed again.

Yum!

This afternoon Pozzick got let out in (our trashed) garden off the lead for the first time and was fine. He was sniffing the air a lot. Some forum members might remember me complaining that the contractors our insurance company sent in cut our hedge also chopped off an acer that I had in a pot (pictured). I'm pleased to say it's started sprouting little shoots. Good thing I didn't give up on it during the dry spell.

The crate thing didn’t go well yesterday evening. After a while, as he obviously wasn’t settling, I took my pillows and a sleeping bag downstairs, let him out of the crate and settled myself on the sofa. This was about 11.30 I think. After some pacing around the lounge and dining room (crates are in the latter, so I left the door open) he settled himself in the dog bed in the lounge that he’s been using during the day and both he and I had a very restful night. We we’re later having our walk this morning, as it’s my non-working day and we first dropped Harry off at work. I have an ‘agile working’ arrangement where I work a 9-day working fortnight. The walk went fine again. Seren is too fixated on chasing her ball to play with other dogs, but Pozzick seems the opposite. He went to say hello to a tiny dog. Photo from this morning to follow. I should have tried to take a photo of them running together, maybe another time.

Probably my inept description!

We’ve mostly hard floors downstairs, so it will be lots of bundles of fluff (tumbleweed?).

Doesn’t he just!

The only really thick bits at the moment are the fur on his head, neck and tail, but he does look like he’s been very undernourished, so maybe that’s affected his coat. Maybe the hot summer had something to do with it too.

A very posh, super modern Porridge! Bet it was echoey.

Hope you are getting on okay.

I’m so sorry Doug. They do become such a huge part of our lives, don’t they. Such a cute little dog, especially when she was a puppy. I feel a bit insensitive posting so much about Pozzick at this time. Do PM me if you find it so.

A little snippet about Seren. Quite often when she barks at him, it seems to be when he’s doing something she knows that she’s not allowed to do. We’ve also caught her trying to ‘herd’ him a few times.

Yes he is I think. He seems to be very quick picking up new things. The first day he didn’t seem to understand the command ‘sit’ at all, now he’s quite responsive. He also seems to have picked up on our disapproval of his trying to open doors. A few occasions of pulling him away with a firm ‘No’ seems to have improved things. The tail is very thick. I brushed one side (port side) yesterday evening and ended up with handfuls of hair. Graham did the starboard side today.

Once I’ve up loaded my photos I click on (or select…whatever) the place in the text where I want a particular photo to appear than click on/ select that photo. It’s a lot more time consuming that way as you have to select each one individually, compared to just posting them all at once and it’s easier to do it on a laptop or tablet than a phone.

Dogs had another good walk this evening. Graham had an online interview, so the boys offered to take the dogs out in case he got distracted by Pozzick whining or whatever. They walked to the lake and back. VID-20221006-WA0000.mp4