The Adventures of Fripp

 We went to the beach for the sunset last night.  It was quite busy but there was lots of room because the tide was right out. Everyone was able to behave themselves and not get too close. I was quite tired when we got home so had my dinner and went to sleep on Nix’s lap. We’ve been to the Hill this afternoon and it was very strange because there weren’t many dogs. There were lots of humans though, all breaking the virus thingy rules.  Nix said they’d all got a bit ahead of themselves because the sun had come out and they weren’t really allowed to all mix together. I nearly got mown down by a MAMIL and Nix was quite cross. She took a photo of them and said she was going to report them because there were too many. Apparently in a month we shall be able to have picnics on benches... I shall be keeping my eyes open 😋 At the moment I have to make do with eating soil...apparently it’s not good for me but I like it 🙂 Nix thinks the summer’s arrived, she has been sitting on he...

 I really don’t know how many times I have to say this, I do not like sneezing. It doesn’t scare me like Nix tells everyone, it just annoys me. And just because I’ve vacated  to the spare  bedroom does not mean I cannot hear them. Even though the patio doors in Nix’s bedroom might be open to the garden the doors of the spare bedroom aren’t.  Therefore, Nix will need to get out of bed, come into the spare bedroom and open that door for me so that I can escape to the garden. What does having a lie in mean anyway? My port is much better today, the swelling has gone down and so I got a walk to the Lancing Ring. It’s very hilly up there, Nix gets really puffed out but she made it to the top and it was worth it because I met a dog with a tail almost as big as mine. By the way Nix noticed the other day my cutaneous horn has almost disappeared from the end of my tail. We think it might have been at the groomers but it doesn’t feel any different to me. Nix found an old video ...

 I’ve been a very busy boy today and might I say rather well behaved 🙂 This morning we had a quick walk on the beach as Nix was doing her Zoom thingie at 8am. As it was so cold she decided to test out the Velcro on my new coat...it didn’t really work that well 🙄 Nix is going to buy some longer elastic so it’s not so tight and try again...I think it will work very nicely then.  I was just thinking about a proper walk once Nix had finished Zooming when auntie Jackie our next door neighbour asked if she could come on our walk with us. I thought that was a very good idea as Nix can be a bit boring sometimes. It did mean that I had to have my photo taken with her but that’s okay, I think it came out rather well.  Time for a quick nap in the sunshine and time to dream of the next walk...I already had it planned in my head.  I got my way and we went to the river this afternoon. Nix said I didn’t really need another walk so soon but I disagreed. You couldn’t really count t...

 This morning the weather was very strange, something to do with the Sahara. Guess what...this time nine years ago I was arriving at my new home with Nix, I was two years of age. My previous owner couldn’t keep me because he was working very long hours and I was alone all day.  I had a very long journey from the south of France and we came under the sea in a tunnel. Nix had driven down with her friend Rog to collect me and take me home...Rog drove and Nix sat in the back with me and gave me cuddles. I was very well behaved until we got back to Nix’s place when I tried to kill the cat. Nix said if I hadn’t come all the way from France she’d have sent me straight back but she didn’t mean it of course...probably 🤔 This morning Nix got a reminder post of my first day with her...she thinks it’s funny what she said at the time.  ‘He's a really lovely boy.  It's only the first day and I think we're doing great. He loves meeting other dogs but he's very intense, wagging tai...

 Quiet day today, Nix’s excuse is that my port is a bit swollen and so I should take it easy. The truth is that she decided to treat herself to a bar of chocolate with her weekly food delivery shop but seeing as how she’s never really got used to metric weights she ordered a bar as big as a house. Hasn’t stopped her from eating most of it and now she feels sick and doesn’t want to go out walking. The things I have to put up with.  Our road is still closed and that’s because some humans moved into a house up the road that wasn’t  connected to the proper poopies disposal unit. Now there’s a very big hole in the middle of the road and no one can get through. Nix likes it because it’s very quiet and she doesn’t have to worry about the local cats getting run over.  As there have been no proper walks and therefore no photos I suggested a few shots in the house with my snuffle mat.  Also Nix tried to have a lie in this morning and I saw her taking photos of me in the g...

 So I got my blood results back very quickly and they are amazing. My kidney values are completely in range again, a proper miracle Nix says and even the SDMA which is the early warner for kidney disease was only raised a bit. It was much higher a few years ago when I was first diagnosed. I had my platelets counted too because when I had my autoimmune disease I only had 9 left and this time I had 256!  We have to wait another few days for my urine results and then a bit longer for the culture to grow. If I have too many bad bacteria I shall have to go back on the antibiotics for a bit.   Today was a good day, the sun has been shining and I’ve been to the Hill one of my favourite places. There were lots of dogs to make friends with but the best one was this really big dog. He wanted to play with me but I don’t do playing... never have but I let him run round me in circles. We nearly didn’t get to the Hill because Nix got a letter through the door this morning to say our ro...

 Guess what...I’ve had my flush. Nix was convinced I wouldn’t able to have it done because it was a bit swollen from when I took my flying leap yesterday but it was okay. I had blood taken too to check my kidneys and also to check on my platelets so got three checks for the price of one. We have to wait now for maybe a week for the flush results but the others will come sooner. Nix says it’s a good job I’m insured...I think she wishes she was then she could get her eye thingies fixed and she might be able to see where she’s going.  Special thanks to auntie Shirley-Sam Donaldson who drove a long way to drive us to the vet which is temporarily moved a long way away from us. Only Bron my vet can do the flush so we had to go there but hopefully by the next time we have to go, Nix will have had her eyes fixed. I got to sit in the back of the car with Nix and I could put my head out of the window...thankfully I didn’t have to wear a mask like they did. When we got home Nix and Sam h...

 As you know I have a new coat and it has these elastic bits for my legs to go through to stop the coat from sliding off. Thing is I don’t really like having my back legs lifted. First of all Nix is really not very good at it and secondly as you know I am a disabled dog as I have no ball joint in one of my hips. I don’t like my disabled leg being lifted and thrust through the elastic and I don’t like standing on it while the other leg is thrust through. I caused such a fuss...apparently... that Nix sent off for some press stud thingies and last night set about cutting the elastic and sewing on the thingies. Its not something I want to watch again 😱 First of all it took her at least half an hour to actually thread the needle and once she’d done that she realised she only had some cheap old cotton which kept breaking. All in all she spent most of the evening doing both sides and collapsed in a heap when she’d finished saying she was exhausted. That sewing box hasn’t seen the light o...

  Well I felt like a puppy this morning with my new hair cut. It made me feel great and I trotted along in front of everyone and even met a brown curly job that I actually liked. It was quite cold but I was very snug in my new coat and I had lots of compliments on it. Nobody noticed that I’d had my hair cut though. Nix says I was exceptionally well behaved and she wished I was always like that instead of being the doggy version of a yob...what is a yob, is it a good thing? I slept for all the rest of the morning, had some lunch and went back to bed. I was tired from all the trotting in the morning so needed a bit more rest. When we eventually went out it was quite busy. Saturdays can be like that because there is a little cafe at the end of the road and then the beach. I like to save my best weeing trick for times like this because I have a larger audience. The trick is to hold on until we get near the cafe and then find someone’s gatepost to wee up. It doesn’t really matter if the...

 I’ve had my hair cut and I feel great but very tired too. I don’t know if you know but I have no ball joint in one of my hips so having to stand for too long makes me very tired. Shelle my groomer said Nix had done really well with my grooming and I didn’t have to stand for too long. I had a little walk when I came out just for a wee but it does make me tired so I’m having a long nap. I have a big wart on my left paw. Nix took some before photos but the only one of me after my groom is when I was asleep even though she woke me up taking it. She says I’ve stretched in the wash unlike her best cardy which definitely didn’t stretch, it doesn’t fit any longer. It could of course have something to do with the huge amount of food that’s been consumed during lockdown.  It was meant to be sunny today but it’s raining instead. Tomorrow is definitely going to be sunny so I shall pose for some photos then but I might have my coat on because it’s still cold. I have to be a bit careful be...

 Nix had her Ash Wednesday service on Zoom last night.  Now that was a sight to behold. Apparently the idea is that you get a cross on your forehead and usually the Vicar would do it in church but because it was on Zoom, Nix had to do it herself. That’s not easy to do when looking at a screen even if you can see properly which Nix can’t so she made a bit of a mess of it. It was made worse by the fact she’d added too much oil to the ash so it ended up running down her nose. She said me washing my parts loudly during the service was very off putting. Not as off putting as the cross on her forehead, still there when we went for our walk early this morning. Maybe now she’ll have a shower before we go out instead of when we get back.  I mounted that retriever on the walk, you know the one that usually falls over. Well this morning he just stood there and so I got quite a good grip. Nix was trying to pull me off whilst apologising to the owner but I was hanging on tight. I noti...

 We went industrial this morning, bit too windy for the beach. I found a big hole that was very interesting but a certain person wouldn’t let me get a really good look.  Speaking of ‘a certain person’ Nix is out in the garden at the moment creating a fire hazard...something to do with it being Ash Wednesday.  She’s written something on a piece of paper and now she’s set fire to it in a terracotta plant pot. She’s meant to collect the ashes but it’s all either blown away in the wind or fallen through the hole in the bottom of the pot. She’s threatening to do it again now in the kitchen sink...doesn’t bode well and to make matters worse she’s going to use my dog bowl 😱 It’s stopped raining and the sun is trying to come out. I have taken up my position next to Nix just to let her know that another walk wouldn’t go amiss. She is choosing to ignore me, this is unacceptable, I might have to knock her bowl of ashes over but thinking about it that’s probably not the best idea as...