Goodbye Nelson. By Bessie

Daddy and the small minihumans went away for a long weekend.  Mummy and Tom took Nelson to his new home.  First they went to Miss Liz's house to pick Tibs up.   Tibs and Nelson were very pleased to see each other.     Then they went to Nelson and Tibs new home to do the homecheck which was a big success so Nelson and Tibs got tot stay forever and ever and ever.    

We miss Nelson but we are very happy him and Tibs are back together and their new mum and dad are lovely.

Last weekend we went on a pack walk to Cotswold Water Park.   It was a nice walk but it was very cold.  We met some people - Oscar and Max - what we are friends with on the facebook and now in the real true life too.  We like it when facebook friends become real true life friends.  And we got to play with our friends Shirley and Ollie.   Carly always shows off when she sees Shirley cos they had that weekend in that there London together last year so she thinks Shirley is her friend and not mine. Poor Mr Guy had to do the whole walk twice cos he thought we had got lost so he went to look for us but we had just taken a short cut.    Good job he is fit and healthy, I would probably have dropped dead if I had to do the walk twice.  

Home made Instant Porridge recipe. By Sam

Finally I have perfected my home made instant porridge recipe.  You know those little sachets or tubs of porridge that you can buy?   The ones where you just add water are about £1 each to buy in the supermarket.   Here it is:

4 dessert spoons oats
1.5 dessert spoons skimmed milk powder
half teaspoon brown sugar (sugar to taste really, I don't like it too sweet)
and whatever the bloomin eck you want to put in to make it interesting:    I like mixed spice and raisins one day, freeze dried strawberries the next, anything dry really, nuts, dried fruit.  You don't want to put anything wet in if you're saving it to heat up later.  

I put my ingredients in a little thermal mug and take it to work, when I'm ready for brekkies quarter fill with boiling water, stir and leave for 5 minutes.

Save yourself a fortune if you're like me and don't want breakfast at home but then realise you're starving hungry when you get to work...

...in theory.   Then the sandwich man comes in his little dingaling icecream van and I NEED a potato dog NOW.

What we did for Easter. By Bessie

On Thursday Mummy and Daddy went to fetch Gertie from Aunty Lesley's and then on Friday Mummy took Gertie to Looby's house.   It was Looby's birthday and Spam and Ellen came too and Spam said she thought Mummy would have brung Bessie.  But she never brung Bessie, she brunged Gertie instead.   Bessie was a sad girl being left behind.

It was Looby's birthday so they bought her some nice presents and she opened them all and then Gertie's new mummy and Grandma came to pick her up and some of Looby's friends came over for birthday tea.

In the evening the humans drank a bit of wine and vodka and stuff and played silly buggers.

On Sunday it was Easter and we went for a walk with the pack to Somerset.   Nelson came too.  He was very good and went off lead and didn't shout or snap at anybody.  There were 15 bassets and Chester the Doberman and we went to the pub and Mark made fudge and apparently it was the best fudge ever.

Nelson has a new home to go to.  Daddy is going to Grandad's house tomorrow with Katie and Bryn and Tom and Mummy are taking Nelson to his new home on Saturday.  We will miss him.  Mummy is already a big blubbery mess thinking about him leaving.

photos and video of our pack walk