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Tag: dogs

  • Image representing post: The Commute (Chicory House Edition)

    My "commute" since moving to the Chicory House isn't much longer than it is at our regular home, but it does involve going outside. Want to see?

    Read more (27 words)

    • Video
    • 3 comments
    • posted 21 April, 2026
  • The dog is concerned. Why, despite all her warnings, am I still letting these men take all of our (surviving) furniture?

    Full image of A French Bulldog sits on a lawn outside a house where a removals company is loading furniture into a van.
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    A French Bulldog sits on a lawn outside a house where a removals company is loading furniture into a van.

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 9 April, 2026
  • It's my final day in the cute garden office of the AirBnB we're living in, this week, and every time I step through the door I catch a glimpse of our small, sandy-coloured dog squatting in the garden.

    Except the dog isn't even here. My brain keeps getting tricked...  by this statue of a pig:

    ๏ปฟ

    • Note
    • posted 8 April, 2026
  • It's F-Day plus 35, and I'm spending a few hours working in the habitable part of our flood-damaged house while I'm "between" two AirBnBs.

    The dog, who doesn't normally get to come upstairs, is sitting with me on the landing. Except she also wants to keep an eye on what's happening downstairs.

    The result? Her back legs are sitting and her front legs are standing as she peers blepfully down the stairs.

    Full image of A champagne-coloured French Bulldog wearing a teal harness is on the top step of a cream-carpeted staircase. Her hind legs are folded so her bottom sits on the top step, but her forelegs are extended so she's standing on the one below. Her tongue is out in a full blep.
    Alt

    A champagne-coloured French Bulldog wearing a teal harness is on the top step of a cream-carpeted staircase. Her hind legs are folded so her bottom sits on the top step, but her forelegs are extended so she's standing on the one below. Her tongue is out in a full blep.

    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 20 March, 2026
  • One last outing for the dog and I along the Cotswold lane we've been living on, before we move to different temporary accommodation tomorrow.

    Full image of French Bulldog stands patiently in the centre of a potholed rural single track lane.
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    French Bulldog stands patiently in the centre of a potholed rural single track lane.

    We're hoping soon to no-longer have to move every week or two, but we're not at that point yet.

    • Note
    • posted 5 March, 2026
  • Dan, a white man, stands with his arms raised outside a nicely-decorated converted barn.

    F-Day plus 12

    It's been only twelve days since our house flooded (it feels like a lot longer!), and progress is slow on getting damage assessments and medium-term accommodation planning sorted.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (552 words)

    • Article
    • 1 comment
    • posted 25 February, 2026
  • A white man with a goatee lies on his back on a floor. A French Bulldog lies on his chest, looking at him.

    Dog tired

    Today was a long day. Between commuting (the kids to school from our distant flood-evacuation accommodation), work, childcare, insurance wrangling etc., I was pretty tired when I got back "home". So I came in and lay on the floor.

    At which point the dog decided I was a pillow.

    • Note
    • 1 comment
    • posted 24 February, 2026
  • A flooded rural road.

    Did not find GC8X888 Crawley to Minster Loop - #11 Wasat

    This checkin to GC8X888 Crawley to Minster Loop - #11 Wasat reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. The dog's walk needed extending to make sure she's well worn-out and not too-excited for some guests we're having over this evening, so she and I came and parked on Dry Lane (ironically-named, โ€ฆ

    Read more (68 words)

    • Checkin
    • to GC8X888
    • posted 7 February, 2026
  • Our dog has decided that the perfect place to lie down at our holiday accommodation is... on a staircase whose carpet is the same colour as her!

    I'm grateful for her very-visible blep... or I'd have tripped over this camouflaged pupper several times already!

    Full image of A champagne-coloured French Bulldog lies on a step of a staircase carpeted in the same colour as herself, u her tongue in medium-blep.
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    A champagne-coloured French Bulldog lies on a step of a staircase carpeted in the same colour as herself, u her tongue in medium-blep.

    • Note
    • posted 4 January, 2026
  • I think the dog's back paws were cold this evening. The giveaway was when she tucked them into a convenient nearby trouser pocket.

    Full image of A sleeping French Bulldog lies on her side with her back paws tucked into the trouser pocket of a human sitting near her.
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    A sleeping French Bulldog lies on her side with her back paws tucked into the trouser pocket of a human sitting near her.

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 30 December, 2025
  • Unusually, we had no guests this Christmas Day. This meant that my usual level of overcatering went even further than normal.

    A side effect of this is that a certain little doggo was delighted and surprised by her Boxing Day breakfast of roast goose!

    Full image of A champagne-coloured French Bulldog kicks her lips excitedly alongside a bowl full of chunks of roast meat.
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    A champagne-coloured French Bulldog kicks her lips excitedly alongside a bowl full of chunks of roast meat.

    • Note
    • posted 26 December, 2025
  • A few pockets of the morning's freezing fog still cling to the hedgerows as the dog and I set out on a chilly West Oxfordshire morning walk.

    Full image of A French Bulldog trots along a concrete slab farm track alongside fallow fields bordered by mist, hedges, and distant flanking hills.
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    A French Bulldog trots along a concrete slab farm track alongside fallow fields bordered by mist, hedges, and distant flanking hills.

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 13 December, 2025
  • We got our dog a Christmas jumper.
    My favourite thing about it is that its coat hanger contains instructions for use:
    "Please insert dog" ๐Ÿคฃ

    Full image of Christmas jumper for a dog, featuring blue-and-white stripes and sequin Christmas trees; its hanger contains an arrow pointing down alongside the text 'please insert dog'.
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    Christmas jumper for a dog, featuring blue-and-white stripes and sequin Christmas trees; its hanger contains an arrow pointing down alongside the text 'please insert dog'.

    • Note
    • 2 comments
    • posted 3 December, 2025
  • Composite of four images of Dan, a white man with long hair and a beard. He's wearing a hoodie with a picture of Fluttershy (from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) wearing the iconic armour from the Elder Scrolls: Skyrim video game. In each of the four pictures he's wearing a different hat: a rainbow-striped bandana, a blackcap with the word 'GEEK' on the front in white lettering, a warm furry hat, and a purple woolen hat with a "Woo" logo.

    Ten Pointless Facts About Me

    A 'ten questions about yourself' quiz is circulating the blogosphere, and I figured I'd join in (and wear four different hats, in the process).

    Read more - about 7 minutes (1662 words)

    • Article
    • posted 4 November, 2025
  • Pencil sketch of a dog chasing its own tail.

    Dogspinner

    Dogspinner - by Lu Wilson and Flora Caulton - is the Monday morning distraction you didn't know you needed.

    Read more (96 words)

    • Repost
    • of this original
    • posted 13 October, 2025

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