The Adventures of Fripp

  So as you know I stayed on my own on Wednesday evening. I’d prefer not to be left but to be honest it wasn’t that bad. I used to have bad memories because I was left alone all day for the first two years of my life but those memories have mostly gone now. Having said that I’m thinking it’s not such a good idea to let Nix know that because can you believe she snuck out to the shops this morning when she thought I was asleep. I made it very clear when she got back that I was not happy with this by being on the sofa and staring out of the window. I think it’s done the trick because she obviously felt really guilty. I was lucky this morning, I only woke up a couple of minutes before she got back. Just had time to get on the sofa and put my anxious face on 😉 Actually when Nix first got me she only had to head towards the front door and I would knock her over. Can’t do that any longer as she’s too old 🤣 We had a bad night last night, I kept Nix up most of the night with my digging. I...

 I stayed on my own last night for 1 1/2 hours. I was okay actually, in fact I went to sleep. I was very happy to see Nix though when she came home and I got straight on her lap and we watched TV together.  i’m now thinking I should’ve looked a bit more pathetic when she came in because she’s now talking about doing it again.  This morning we drove Trish to church to collect all the prayers that have been written in the prayer book. She then sends them out to all the people that are on the prayer team so that they can pray during the week. We put a prayer in there for Winston, who is six years of age and has a brain tumour…he is Nix’s grand Godson. He’s had two operations now and he’s been very brave and we just want him to get better now. On the way back we stopped at the Beach Bakery round the corner and had tea and croissants 😋 Nix did a bit of gardening when we got home and I had a little sleep and then we went out to another local park. We don’t go there that often so it ...

  I’m a bit restless at the moment, not sure why wink wink.  I did go through a phase of going to sleep for quite a long time when we got back from our walks but now I don’t seem to be sleeping quite so long. I like to check Nix is still in the bungalow because I don’t always hear her. I wouldn’t mind but Nix is up and down like a yo-yo during the night either to go to the loo or get a drink so I don’t know why she’s worrying about me.  Tonight we aren’t going to home group because there is something Nix wants to go to on prayer. It only lasts an hour so Nix is going to take me for a ‘lovely long walk’ and then I am going to stay on my own. It’s on from 7.30 to 8.30 so she won’t be gone long. Don’t tell her but it’s the main reason I’ve been ‘a bit restless’ hoping it might put her off leaving me but it hasn’t worked and she’s still going 😕 I need to try new tactics I think 🙂 We went down the beach this morning so Nix could take a photo of a pile of old wood that has be...

 Haven’t really had that much in the way of walks today. I suppose I did get a reasonable one this morning on the beach but after that Nix has been a bit busy. We had the café this morning but I generally sleep through that. I did wake up when a new chap arrived holding a big poster for our church fayre on Saturday. He said, “Is it okay if I leave this here…”  Nix thought he was a delivery man with a nice new poster for us but no, he was from the local council and he’d taken it down from where it had been placed because it was deemed as fly tipping. I think that’s really mean because it is a charity but he told us we were lucky he didn’t destroy it because that’s what he does with all the other fly tipping stuff. Nix and Hilary were very polite to him, I wouldn’t have been, I’d have told him what he could do with it but then I’m just a dog. Unfortunately there are two more so Nix says we’ll probably be getting those back too 🫢 Speaking of fly tipping the really annoying thing...

 I don’t know why Nix is asleep on the sofa, it’s not like she did a lot today. Must have been the gardening and drawer tidying that has done it. Oh yes there is the ironing and I suppose and I did get quite a good groom. Anyway she’s awake now and I’ve got her working.  This morning we took some of the stuff Nix had sorted out for the Summer Fayre on Saturday round to Joy’s. She lives in the same road as the church so she very kindly lets us store it in her garage until Saturday. There was lots of bric a brac and second hand clothes, I think it’s going to be a really good day as long as it doesn’t rain. When Nix checked a couple of days ago it looked like it was going to rain all day but it’s changed now to the possibility of just a little in the morning. Let’s hope by Saturday the rain has all gone away. Last year we helped on the book stall but this year we are just going to go round and say hello to everyone. There is going to be medieval stocks and you can throw wet spong...

 Look if Nix turns her back for one milisecond and I decide to go through some bushes and up onto a different path, whose fault is it if she loses me. Obviously that is her fault for not paying attention but anyone would have thought it was my fault the way she was going on. Anyway I had to go on my lead after that and Nix says she’s definitely getting me a bell. I’m not amused, I’m not a cat though I hear it’s very fashionable these days to identify as a cat…I’m thinking about it 🤣 Someone let off some very loud fireworks last night. I did hear them a bit but they didn’t scare me. What scared me was the flashing lights in the sky. On the local forum everyone was asking what they were. It’s a toss up between drones or the Space X satellites apparently…whatever happened to it just being fireworks 🙄 Anyway I didn’t like them and I did have a bit of a dig in the bathroom . Nix encouraged me into our new bedroom and I fell asleep in my bed and didn’t wake up until quite late.  N...

It was very windy yesterday so the new hat got it’s first outing. It worked very well and stopped Nix’s hair from blowing everywhere and she is very pleased…thank you Judi 🥰 Alan our neighbour who was going to move the bed for us today came and did it last night in the end. I was a bit confused when Nix went to bed but I still had two beds in there so I soon got used to it. In fact I think I prefer it, it leaves me lots of room in what was the old bedroom, I could have more beds in there 🙂 Nix says no because she wants to put a sofa or a dining table in there but there will always be room for more beds. Thank you Alan, you’re a very good neighbour 🙂 This morning I decided I didn’t want to go to the beach so we went down by the industrial bit of the river instead. I had to stay on my lead apart from when we got to the little beach and then I was allowed off. I like the fact that I can choose where we go. I just put my brakes on and look in the direction I’m wanting to go in and Nix j...

 I keep walking in front of Nix…of course I do, I am a Bearded Collie. I can’t hear what she says any longer (thank goodness) but I know it off by heart.  “Fripp…you’ll have me over and then we’ll both be sorry…” I don’t need to hear her, I know what she’s saying but it won’t stop me because I have an inbuilt need to walk in front of her. I think she should be grateful really because I stop her walking too fast. She’s always falling over as you know so the faster you walk, the harder you fall. I think she should be grateful.  Today we have the saga of the new electric toothbrush. She’s never had one before so was quite excited about getting it out of the box and trying it out. That was before she saw the instruction pages which are mainly in a foreign language. She found the bit that gives the instructions in English but it only gives warnings and environmental notices. The actual instructions are in picture form and they are very confusing. It doesn’t help that Nix’s mod...

 Nix and I have been relaxing today, I have spent most of it sleeping apart from when I went missing in the park but more of that later. We had a lovely quiet walk on the beach last night and another quiet walk on the beach this morning. Nix was collecting some rubbish that had been washed up (or left behind) and there was a plastic bleach bottle with liquid in it. Nix and I wondered what was wrong with some people.  Most of the morning was spent watching Nix make a pretend bed…don’t ask 🙄 She wants to move into the smaller bedroom so we can use the larger one as another lounge. That way guests won’t have to walk through a bedroom to get to the garden. Nix had the bright idea of making a pretend bed out of pillows and boxes which is exactly the same size as her bed. She would then see if it worked in the smaller space and if it was going to be annoying having to walk round it. I just walked across it so it didn’t bother me 🙂 Anyway she’s decided it does work and one of her n...