Nanny part 2. By Bessie

...As I said we is on our way back from Inca and Rufus's house when Daddy's phone rings but he is driving so Mummy answers and it is Grandad.  He won't say what he wants but he says Daddy has to phone him straight back.    So Daddy is looking everywhere for somewhere to stop and typical there is nowhere and it takes ages.  Then Mummy's phone rings and it is Tom saying Grandad said we have to phone him urgently.

So Daddy pulls over and phones Grandad and Grandad says that Nanny is in intensive care and she is very poorly.  So we decides our road trip is over, we needs to get home so Daddy can get ready to go and see Nanny.  So we looks for the motorway and we goes straight home.  Daddy very worried.   Grandad says she got thin skin cos she has to take a lot of cortisone for her rheumatism otherwise she in constant agony and she caught her fingernail on her leg and cut it.  Only a little bit but it didn't heal and she got septicemia.   She been to cousin Georgie's on Friday and had a big lunch and laughing and joking around like always but by Monday she so sick Grandad had to call for an ambulance.

We gets home late and everybody goes to bed early to be ready for the next day.  But then Uncle Nick phones very early and say Nanny has passed away.  We is all devastated.   Daddy gets in his car and goes to be with Grandad.   Mummy and Daddy's boss in on holiday in Canadaland so Mummy has to go in work all week otherwise Matt is all on his own.   The minihumans and us stay home and comfort each other.

Daddy comes home on Thursday.  He is very very sad as you can imagine.    The funeral is next Thursday.   Daddy and Tom are going up on Tuesday and they going to take us houndies to Uncle Jed's hotel for discerning ladies and gentledogs.   Katie is back to school on Tuesday.  Bryn is back to school on Wednesday.  Mummy going to try and get out of work early if she can on Wednesday - it hard cos all the bosses are coming for a meeting with her boss so she has to stay in the office and help Matt but she hope they have left by three so she can go and get the minihumans and then they can go straight to Nanny and Grandads house.   Then she has to come back with the minihumans straight after the wake cos she has to go to work on Friday cos there is only one person in again.   She wishes she worked somewhere with lots of staff sometimes.  It's very awkward to arrange things in an emergency.

In other news the solicitor says we should exchange contracts early next week and we got a letter yesterday asking us to phone her to arrange a completion date.   The humans celebrated this news by dismantling the spare bed.  So don't come and stay with us before we move will you or you'll be sleeping on the floor.

Our weekend at Inca and Rufus's house

Last Saturday we went to stay at Inca's house.    Carly and Lotty stayed home with Tom again cos they are too silly for other peoples houses.  We went to Temple Newsam.  This is a massive park in Leeds.  Aunty Lynda and Aunty Kath came too with Uncle Mick and Uncle Chris and their doggies Saffie, Bracken, Jack and Annie BLUEbell.   I didn't just shout Annie BLUEbell by the way.  She has capital letters in her name in honour of Blue.

We went for a lovely walk round the park and some of us went in the pond.  Or maybe it was a lake, I'm not sure.  Anyway I didn't, I sat on the bank with Saffie and watched the others swimming.  Annie BLUEbell fell in.  I shouldn't laugh but it was funny.  

Then we went and sat outside the big house and had our picnic.   MummyLouise made a nice picnic Mummy says. Us houndies just got a few crisps and some water cos apparently dogs don't eat picnics.

Later we went to the working mans club to watch a band.   Inca and Rufus didn't come but I didn't want to stay home so I went with the humans.   I sat and watched the band, they were quite good.  Not as good as Brynny obviously.  Daddy was happy cos the beer was cheap.  A little girl wanted to play with me but she kept trying to feed me gravel.  I don't eat gravel so her and Katie put the gravel on my back instead.  Mean that is.

Then we come home and had tea and the humans played board games but me and Inca and Rufus didn't cos we are dogs and dogs don't play board games.

On the way home we decided not to just go on the motorway cos that is boring so we went on a road trip.   First we went to Wakefield and Daddy showed us the very first house he ever bought.

Then Daddy looked on a map and said Denby Dale sounded like a nice place for a picnic so we went there but there wasn't anywhere interesting to stop and eat so we carried on for a bit and stopped at some rest stop on the pennine way to eat the packed lunch that MummyLouise had made for us.

Then we got on the road again and Daddy said we was going to drive right past our friends Craig and Wanda's house and should we call in and see them.  Mummy said you can't just turn up but he said it would be OK if we just popped in for a cup of tea and anyway it's 2pm on a bank holiday so they probably be out anyway.

He was right, they were out so we went to Stone instead.  This is the town where Nanny was born.  We went to see the house where she was born and we went to the park and used the facilities (toilets for the humans, bowling green for me haha not really) and then went to the corner shop for a drink.

Then we just got back on the road and we is heading towards Stafford when Daddy's phone rings...

To be continued...