The Adventures of Fripp

 Major dramas here... the iPhone broke 😱😱😱 We had just got back from our walk and Nix was deciding which photos to put on the blog when it just went dead. I knew better than to be annoying as usual when we first get back so played quietly with my ball and then when things got hairy went for a kip in the bedroom.   The Apple store is closed because of the virus thingy so there followed a very long telephone conversation with an Apple assistant. That didn’t go well as Nix was panicking and couldn’t really understand what the girl was telling her to do. The girl kept going off to ask someone else as she didn’t seem to know what she was doing either...it was a disaster darling. At least we’d had a decent walk first because this was going to take a long time.  I’m sure you all remember the iPad fiasco where Nix had to send it back to Apple to get it fixed. Took her ages to work out which labels went where but she did do it in the end. Now we have to go through it all again ...

 So today is apparently a day of rest which is another excuse for me not getting a proper walk. We went to the beach this morning and I have to put in a formal complaint as there are no photos of moi, just one of a post which Nix thinks is artistic!  When we got home Nix had her Zoom service so there was no chance of getting her out until that was finished. I was promised a ride to the woods but then that got cancelled because there were too many cars on the road all stuck in a long line so we had to turn round and come home. We went to the beach again instead and Nix took some selfies of us together to make up for the lack of photos of moi from this morning.  I hope you like them, you can edit Nix out, she won’t mind.  We did walk all along the beach and there was a woman swimming in the sea. I think her clothes smelled of dog so obviously I had to empty my tank as I passed by. Unfortunately she saw me and started shouting, “Oh no, oh no, get him away...” Nix ignore...

 The sun is out and I’m a happy boy. This morning we went down the beach to the old fort. Nix says the beach looks like Mars...did you know Nix and I had been there.  I am eating much better since I stopped my antibiotics so I had the big breakfast when I got home.  I then had the big lunch before we went out again.  We’ve been to the woods this afternoon. Nix likes to tell everyone that I go missing but actually she really should just try and keep up. There were no incidents as far as I’m concerned but Nix says there would have been one if she hadn’t grabbed my tail when the Husky suddenly came round the corner. Yes I know he only wanted to play but Nix said she knew I was planning a mounting mission and he didn’t look like he’d appreciate that. She said she’d saved me from a fight but really... my tail...the indignity of it. The small child rolling down the hill was an accident. He was already rolling, I just gave him a bit of a shove so he could go faster. I think...

  Bit of a boring day so far. Nix had a Zoom thingie at 8am so I only got a quick march down the beach while it was still dark and I had to stay on my lead because she couldn’t see if the brown jobby was around. Disappointingly he wasn’t but my time will come.  I managed to get her out again after the Zoom but only to do our normal beach walk. Must admit I was hoping for something a bit more ambitious. Never mind my turkey mince is being cooked as we speak and the sun’s come out so in a minute I shall commence the ‘stare’ and I can guarantee she will give in very quickly.  There are still lots of lorries on the beach moving my pebbles around. Nix thinks it’s hilarious that the houses on the beach in Lancing have notices on their walls to say the bit of beach in front of their house is private. Well they don’t have any beach any longer since the very high tides so the pebbles from our beach will be shipped over to build them a new one. I’m thinking that will be my beach no...

  I’m a bit annoyed at the moment because I can’t really have my freedom on the beach. There are lots more lorries now and the small ones are driving along the beach all the way to Lancing. They are taking lots of our pebbles to help the people there because the sea is getting too close to their houses. I suppose thinking about it, I shouldn’t mind losing my freedom just for a little while if it means the people of Lancing don’t float into the sea, that would be awful. We did meet Humphrey and Albert on the beach this morning and they had their freedom but Nix said that’s because they don’t run off to eat dead fish.  Funnily enough this afternoon we did go to Lancing and Nix took a picture of how close the sea has got to the houses, I’m glad it’s not that close to our house. I had to pose on one of the big stones which I’m happy to do because I get a treat afterwards. Nix has been calling me her little unicorn just lately...this is apparently because the horn on my tail is gro...

 Guess where we went this morning...the beach. Not very surprising but what is surprising is that I was very well behaved especially when Bear and his little friend were having a game. I wanted to jump on them but I could see Nix watching me like a hawk and I’d have been in big trouble so I just barked because they were getting far too much attention. Bear and his other friend Teddy saw the brown curly job yesterday and he was very aggressive to them. You see I know a bad ‘un when I see one.  This afternoon we’ve been to the Three Cornered Copse in Hove. It was harder to get lost because there weren’t many leaves left on the bushes...I still managed it a few times though. We met lots of dogs but the best bit of the walk, well in Nix’s eyes anyway was when this chap fell over me and guess what...it had nothing to do with me, I was just standing there. I think he should have been watching where he was going, gave me quite a shock though he didn’t go down. I tried to disentangle ...

 So it’s been beach, beach and more beach today. I haven’t been anywhere else and now I’m bored. Well actually I’m falling asleep so theoretically I suppose I can’t be bored but if I wasn’t falling asleep, I should be bored...so there! We hadn’t been back from our morning walk for very long when we set off for the beach again. This time we were going to support George from our church who was doing a sponsored walk to raise money to fix our church hall.  I had to stay on the lead this time because it was important I didn’t get in George’s way because his legs hurt him when he walks and he was very brave.  He has raised almost three quarters of the money the church needs which is great. I didn’t mind staying on my lead and Gracie the vicar’s Labrador was on her lead too. I quite like her even though she’s a black Labrador.  This afternoon we have been back to the beach again because my turkey mince is arriving soon and we didn’t have time for a long walk. I don’t mind ...

 There was a very big boat making a lot of noise when we got to the beach this morning. Nix thought that it was very interesting, me not so much. I suppose it shows just how boring Nix’s life really is.  We went down the river this afternoon. You know how Nix has always been scared of going over the bridge over the busy road. Well now she’s decided she doesn’t like going under the busy road either. I think the lockdown thingy has finally done it’s worst. She says it’s worse coming back because she can see it in the distance and knows she’s got to go under it eventually. I like it under there, it’s really noisy and you can hear the lorries above you racing along.  I like to think I took her mind off going under the bridge by perfecting another one of my annoying habits. I like to walk right behind her and when she looks over her right shoulder to make sure I’m still there I overtake her on the left. She thinks I’ve gone AWOL and starts panicking and calling me but I’m behi...

 Look if people don’t put fences up then they can’t expect me not to go into their garden. Nix running over the pebbles shouting, “Get out, get out!” was never going to work but it was fun to see her try.  We got as far as the old fort and somehow I managed to get myself on the wrong side of the barriers.  Nix said I don’t pay attention but the same could be said of her. I always know where she is where as she never knows where I am. Again shouting, “Go back, go back” was never going to work. I wanted her on my side of the barrier, it’s more fun and there are more fish. This afternoon has been more relaxing and we have been to the woods. I met a very nice little boy who was really scared of dogs because he got chased by one so Nix explained it’s best not to run. She asked him if he’d like to give me a treat and he said yes. I think he was very brave even though he dropped it in the mud before I could get it. His second attempt was more successful.  I got an extra wal...

 So I’d like to say it’s been quite a day but to be honest it’s been rather boring. Nix doesn’t agree as she said peeing up the only car in the car park that had a driver sitting in it was not boring it was embarrassing. She also said that picking up another dog’s cold poo by mistake was not boring, it was disgusting.  Well I was bored though there was one bit of entertainment. Nix went to flash her headlights at a fellow driver to say thanks for letting us through and she turned the windscreen washers on by mistake. I thought that was hilarious, she said it was embarrassing because the bloke in the other car was laughing.  We did go to the beach this morning and the big trucks have made a mess. I know it’s going to help our neighbours who might get flooded but they’ve buried all the dead fish. We’ve been to the hill this afternoon and I managed to squeeze in between two sheds and into that cat’s garden. It wasn’t there so I had to come out again which is always harder wh...