Michael's funeral takes place next Wednesday 24th October in Bristol, UK. If you would like details drop me message.

Poodle looking to the starry skies greeting cards

Looking for inspiration - and finding it

 

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New Poodle, tri BC, Greyhound greeting cards...

He was modest about his achievements - our Greyhound gardener's been helping out again...

Tricolor Border Collie in the firelight

This black Poodle was not yet confident on the ice - but soon would be.

And - The cup that cheers... and does not inebriate...

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Autumn's in the air... (and the leaf-scrunching begins...)

Yep - autumn's in the air. (...time for leg warmers, blanket over knees as work at desk, fingerless gloves, hot toddies and the central heating - brrrr...)

...scrnunch, crunch, scrunch, scrnunchy in the leaves...

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You can't come in here with those muddy feet!!!

You can't come in here with those muddy feet!!!
(...honestly, these hoomuns - they go out and run about, no matter what the weather, and then expect to just trot back in the house without a care in the world and with no thought for the pup who cleans the floors...)

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Herding was in their blood, but ice skating was in their soul...

Ice skating

Our Corgis didn’t realise it was Fate

that first led them to strap on boots,

step paw onto ice and skate

away from their herding roots.

Skating took them over, engulfed them in a flood

of feeling as though finally they were whole,

because although herding was in their blood,

ice skating was in their soul.

from: 'The Corgi Games' (now available in full colour paperback) 

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New mousemats - knitting cats and singing Corgis

Corgi Chess

I've been asked to increase my mousemat range - so I have! By some singing cats and Corgis and some chess-playing Corgis and knitting cats.

Meowy Christmas OR Cat Choir

The Knitwear Sisters (Knitting was thicker than blood in the knitwear sisters' case.)

The Welsh Corgi Howl Choir

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'The Corgi Games' is out in paperback now! Woohoo!

It's a bit slim, but then, I'm used to handling novels rather than books of illustrated doggerel. The illustrations throughout the book are all in full colour. I'm quite chuffed with it, actually - it's been created through Amazon's CreateSpace program. Here's another pic from it:

Sack Racing

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Marathon

Panting and grunting and panting some more,

almost drowning out the cheers;

little legs pumping, paws getting sore.

Tongue flapping,

lolloping ears;

paws on the trail slapping.

Focussing on the music your body makes,

forgetting all your fears;

forgetting all your pains and aches…

Each paw thud sets the tone,

the ground flies by, hurt disappears.

RacerCorgi is in The Zone.

(until someone yells: “Supper!” - and then he’s not…)

This is another pic and verse from The Corgi Games....

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'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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