'The Corgi Games' (book) puts in an appearance...

Of course, the Queen's Jubilee AND the London Olympics in the same year begs for combination - hence - The Corgi Games - in which Welsh Corgi dogs engage in various forms of sport (including sack racing) in their usual stylish and winning way. In rhyme. Natch.

The Corgi Games is on Amazon for Kindle, but not yet in paperback - I've not used Amazon's CreateSpace before for paperbacks so that's a wait and see thing, really. Of course, the pics on your Kindle (unless you have a fancy one) will be in black and white, but I've made the paperback full colour so I'm waiting pretty impatiently to see that one... Anyway, here it is - it's received its first review so I'm chuffed. (Why do I always feel so shy about announcing new books etc??). The formatter I used was brilliant but of course so much depends on the size the reader makes their font...

 

I hadn't really taken on board how little of the book would be seen in the sample so I'm putting another sample on here - I'll put the Sledding verse and pic:

Sledding

He loved going so fast

that everything went by in a blur.

It was such a blast

to have the wind race through his fur.

Speeding along was a thrill,

and always to win

with never a spill

produced such a big grin!

(The only trouble came when he forgot his mouth guard

and he’d get to the finish line with his tongue frozen hard

to his shoulder, which was always a pain,

and absolute agony til it thawed out again.)

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And some more OlympiCorgi Games - the sprinters, the a-bounce-a-day-club and volley ball

The sprinters
(thundering along, thunder, thunder...)

A bounce a day

(keeps the doctor away)

Trying hard not to use teeth...
(It would be so much easier to just snatch the thing out of the air!)

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And some more OlympiCorgi Games - skiing, sledding, whaddya mean somersaulting isn't an Olympic sport? and then there's Taekwondog...

It was just him and the snow (and his thoughts).

He was a speed fiend

She greeted every morning with a somersault

Taekwondog(Uh - these Corgis are playing - no Corgis were harmed in the creation of this pic.) (jus sayin)

 

 

 

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And yet more OlympiCorgi Games - rowing, sack racing (well - it should be an Olympic sport), sailing, and the shot put - of course.

Victory gestures ain't what they used to be...

Yeah - we know sack racing isn't part of the Olympics - but it should be!!! Yeah!

Oh, for a life on the Ocean Wave...

Like an eagle caged I pine, on this dull unchanging shore.
Oh give me the flashing brine! The spray and the tempest roar!
(...at least until that cold and wet old rain does pour...)

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep!
Where the scattered waters rave, and the winds their revels keep!
(...which is all well and fine until they disturb my sleep...)

(Jus' sayin')

Putting the shot where it needs to go.
(And he always resisted taking it in his mouth and simply running off with it. What a good OlympiCorgi!!!)

 

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More OlympiCorgi Games - fencing, high jump, pair skating, mutt lifting...

Avast! Have at ye!
Ack! Ya got me!
(These are all technical terms. Natch.)

She'd looked everywhere for that frisbee, and couldn't see it from this angle either.

They were in a world of their own...

Mutt lifting

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The OlympiCorgi Games - archery, artistic dognastics, basket ball, bowls - why aren't bowls part of these Olympics? Grrr

(Nice grouping!!!)
(Bone targets were his specialty.)

The artistic dognastics

Basket ball for the OlympiCorgis never really took off...

There's nothing like a serene afternoon of bowls on the green. The OlympiCorgis take their bowls very seriously indeed and simply can't understand why their sport isn't in the Olympics this year. (grrrrrrr)

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