A Weekend with the Golden Girls

Last weekend, my humans went on a short break to Rome. (More about this later).

Normally, I’m not too happy when my humans go off gallivanting to exotic places and leave me behind. Not this time though. My humans found a new dog-sitting family for me. They were a very nice couple who stay on a houseboat with its own garden and live only a short distance from the beach. Best of all, they have a ‘booti-ful’ young female golden retriever. Even better, they were also looking after another female golden retriever at the same time. I couldn’t believe my luck! I spent a ‘naughty’ weekend with two gorgeous young ladies.

Here are a few pictures taken during my stay with them...

This is Lobke, a three year old, good looking golden retriever. Wait a minute... that sounds like a description of me. Talk about compatible!



The lady on the right belongs to my dog-sitters. Her name is Amy. She is only a year old and she is very charming. (Unlike myself – check out my squinting. I was trying to put on a ‘seductive’ persona, but I just looked like I needed to go to the toilet. D’oh!)



A close-up of Amy.



As you can see, she loves to have her photograph taken and is always ready for the camera...



... unlike me, as you can see from the picture above. D’oh! (again).


Anyway, I really enjoyed my weekend and I can’t wait to meet up with Amy and Lobke again.

Friend Bloggy Award

Paco and Milo has given me a 'Friend Doggy Award'. Thank you guys, and I appreciate it!

The award goes like this...

"Here's the Friend Bloggy Award Scoop: These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text and pic into the body of their award".

I'm allowed to pass this on to eight of my 'favoured' friends. So, here goes:

Amber-Mae

Comet and Blu

Pipa

Helios

Khyra

Bae Bae the Hamster

Jackson

Okay, that's two right? Some others...
Five so far, are you keeping count? And...
That's seven! And, the final one...

I think that's my 'quota' of eight. (Did I mention that my humans haven't taught me to count yet?)

My Winter Wonderland

It has been very cold for the past couple of weeks.



Not that this bothers me, I love rolling around on the icy ground...

... and frolicking in the frost.

During my daily walks, I’ve noticed that my park has been covered with frost. It looks like icing on a cake.

Even the canals have been frozen over.

Me and Missus on a frozen canal.

The cold weather has been good news to many of the Dutch humans who have taken the opportunity to go skating on frozen lakes.

Needless to say, I wanted the chance to go 'Dancing On Ice' . I wanted to be just like Hans Brinker .

Me and Dad on the frozen lake after our skating session. I don’t want to be cheeky but I hope the ice is very thick. Dad has put on a lot of weight over the Christmas period... heh heh heh.