The Adventures of Fripp

 So you know I was meant to go in for my groom this morning, well I haven’t been. Everything was going really well yesterday.  Nix did think it a bit strange that I didn’t jump on the rocks on the way back from church but sort of forgot about it. We had a short walk round the block in the afternoon and when we got home I really didn’t feel very well. My tummy hurt and all I wanted to do was get on the sofa with Nix but I thought it might hurt if I jumped. I put my chin on the sofa seat and just gazed at Nix and then I just stared into space for a while. I don’t know why I do that, I think I am thinking 😇 Eventually I did get on the sofa and fell asleep with my head in Nix’s lap but when I woke up my tummy hurt a lot and I started to pant really hard. I think it scared Nix but I couldn’t help it, it seemed to help with the pain, like when ladies have babies Nix said. Also I got my third of a paracetamol which helped a lot. At about 10pm I suddenly ate my dinner so this made Ni...

  You know we walk to church along the beach.  Well it seems fairly normal for me to be in a different place to Nix. So…if she is up the top of the beach I like to be down by the sea, if she is down by the sea I like to be up the top. I see nothing wrong with this and it’s not my fault if she can’t see very far…I think she’s getting a bit clingy in her old age. By the way she has had her cataract thingies looked at and she can get them done in a couple of months. I have a feeling I shan’t be able to get away with quite so much once she can see properly again 🤔 This week in church is something called Candlemas. In the newsletter it said the congregation could bring along a candle to be blessed. Now Nix didn’t do stuff like that in her church in a London and she didn’t want to be the only person in the congregation who didn’t take a candle so she made sure she had hers with her. It’s a good job she’d bought a load when she though the Russians were going to cut all our energy of...

  Guess what, we got a parcel this morning all the way from America from Max Smothers and Jeannette. It was very exciting opening it and I got my very own scarf with my name on it. This will keep me nice and warm when the weather is cold. Nix thinks she’s going to borrow it to wear as a hat but I think not. There are lots of snacks for Nix to try out, some of them we’ve never heard of. I might need to give her a hand on that though I’ll probably not bother with the fruit ones, I’m more of a cheese man myself. Some of them have chocolate so I definitely won’t be allowed those but thank you Max Smothers and Jeannette, we love our present.  I have been well in myself, I’ve been on lots of walks but not too far. Last night we went to watch the sun set and today we have been down by the river. I had a bit of a funny turn last night where I was just standing still and staring into space. It didn’t last long but I think Nix is going to buy me some Activait once I‘ve finished my prese...

 Important things first…I am completely better 😇 The vet has been in touch with Nix and I do have a urinary infection. My wee is alkaline and there is blood and protein in it and white blood cells too of course. Nothing to worry about as my wee is often like that, it’s because my kidneys don’t work properly and also I do have a foreign body inside me 😱  Nix still has to wait for the culture results but I expect they’ll be the same as usual and it just means a month of antibiotics which I’ve already started.  Friday mornings are meditation in the big church over the footbridge. It starts at 8am and I like to have a walk on the beach first but Nix overslept this morning so it was all a bit of a rush. I sleep through the meditation bit and then my favourite part is the tea and croissants afterwards in the parish hall. On the way there I played a joke on Nix and started eating some grass which is what I do when I’m poorly. It really scared her but then I started jumping aro...

  Hello everyone, I think I am feeling a lot better this afternoon. Nix was still worried this morning because I was very quiet. I didn’t feel quite right but I still wanted to go out for my walk. I had a bit of a trot down the boardwalk but I got tired very quickly. When we got home I went straight to bed.  After a while I heard our doorbell ring and it was our friend Jean and she had croissants. It’s a good job I woke up because no one told me she was coming. I wasn’t allowed any of the croissant because I’d not eaten my breakfast but I have now. This is mainly because Jean didn’t see the plate on the floor and trod on it and all my food went everywhere. I preferred it on the floor and ate most of it so everyone’s happy.  Nix has spoken with Bron my vet and I am to stay on my antibiotics for one month and I can have the paracetamol if I am in pain. I have just spotted next door’s cat in my garden and Nix reckons the force with which I lunged at the French doors shows I ...

 Bonjour mes amis 😇 As you all know I have been to the vets today because I haven’t been very well, I was there for over two hours. First of all I got weighed and Nix was a bit shocked because I only weighed 18.45kg and I’m usually almost 20kg. The vet said not to worry as I hadn’t eaten properly for some time and the weight drops off really quickly. Next I had my bloods taken and that all came back okay for my kidneys but I had a lot of white blood cells which means I have some kind of infection. Next I had both my kidneys scanned and then my bladder and everything was okay except for one of my kidneys which has a ‘scruffy architecture’ but we knew that, it’s always been that way. Nix had to collect some of my urine to be sent away to a special laboratory. This was easier said than done and most of it went over her hand though she did get enough to send to the lab 🙄 I am now on antibiotics and Paracetamol for a while and once the urine results come back we shall know a bit more....

 Bonjour everyone 😇 I am feeling a little better this evening  but still not quite right. While Nix was at the eye hospital I sat with Jackie and put my head in her lap. I never do that usually but I wanted to feel close to someone and Nix wasn’t here. I think Nix  was expecting me to be much improved when she got back from the hospital simply because I’d had a bit of a mini incident on the beach earlier. I had tried to flatten this dog which Nix says looked nothing like the BCJ other than he was brown. Nix was going to cancel her eye appointment which she has been waiting over a year for and we couldn’t have that so I thought if I had a bit of an incident it would give her the confidence to leave me with Jackie for a while. Now she’s home and I’ve gone a bit quiet again but I did do a perfect poo so that’s two today and I haven’t been sick at all. I haven’t really felt hungry today so the plan now is for Nix to see how I am tomorrow and if I’m not right she will take me...

 I had a lovely walk this morning up the beach to the cafe. I was very demanding apparently regarding Nix’s croissant. I felt absolutely fine then but on the way home I didn’t feel very well. I ate a lot of grass and then I was quite sick…twice. We came home and I went straight to bed and slept for quite a long time. When I got up I was very demanding again about going out for another walk so Nix said we could drive to the river. We hadn’t been there very long when I started to feel a bit unwell again. Nix decided we should go home and so we turned around and headed back to the car. If I’m no better later I may have to go to the vet because quite a few dogs round here have been poorly.  On the way back to the car we met a dog wearing a muzzle and the lady who owned him said we didn’t need to worry, he was fine with dogs, he just didn’t like fat men and children 🤣

 Can I just say that If I’m meant to write an interesting blog then I need to do something interesting, not sit around all day doing nothing. I suppose we did go to church this morning and that was quite interesting. We sit in the back row because that way Nix can make a bit more room for me and also it’s nearest the door if the microphone pops which as you know I don’t like. It did make a horrible noise this morning but I was very brave. I wanted to leave but Nix gave me a gravy bone so I decided to stay. I had a custard cream biscuit afterwards at coffee so I’m really glad that I stayed.  This afternoon we’ve been for another walk down the beach but I had to stay on my lead incase the BCJ was around. I did meet lots of dogs, one lady had seven which was probably a bit too many. They were very noisy and they all barked at me when I tried to get past.  I’m back to eating four meals a day by the way so Nix is very pleased, she knows that I am feeling completely better. She...

  Ten years ago today Nix received a message from Liz Jay telling her about moi. I was born in France and so the request was in French. Nix used her schoolgirl French to translate and even though she was useless she could see I was looking for a home…she typically didn’t of course see the ‘translate’ button at the bottom 🙄 She says she fell in love with me as soon as she saw me…naturellement 🙄 Apparently I looked just like BIlly her previous Beardie who had gone to the Bridge a couple of months earlier. She got in touch with my breeder and said if I was in the UK she would take me in a heartbeat. My breeder said she was going to the UK in a few weeks for Crufts and she could  bring me over.  Nix agreed and the rest is history 👏👏👏 I did of course try to kill the cat on the first night and Nix has always said if I hadn’t come all the way from France she’d have sent me straight back again 🤣 Sadly Fakir and Fred my brothers went to the bridge far too early and I am very...

 First and foremost can you all please stop telling Nix how lovely she looks without her glasses. It’s a good job she won’t need them after the op as her head is getting so big, she’d not find any to fit 😇 On to more important things…moi 😇 Last night I was very poorly and really scared Nix. I was scared too because I had quite a lot of pain. I was stretching and stretching to try and make it go away and then I was sick, twice. When I started to tremble Nix decided she had to risk driving me to the emergency vets in the dark 😱 This news made me feel immediately better, there was no way I was going in a car with Nix driving…in the dark. Bron my vet and given Nix some paracetamol last time I was poorly and she was to give me a third of a tablet. I had it in a little knob of butter and bit by bit the pain went away. I went into my bed and Nix decided to sleep on the sofa where she could keep an eye on me. I think it might have been my snoring and dreaming that persuaded her she coul...