The Adventures of Fripp

 I slept in the Summerhouse again last night, I really like it in there. Nix tried all of the suggested remedies for her lurgy thingy and they definitely worked on giving her a better nights sleep but unfortunately didn’t stop her from coughing last night. I must point out also that the Vicks on the bottom of her feet would have sent anyone out to the summerhouse even if she hadn’t been coughing. What is wrong with you humans, it smells really really bad. To be honest it was a bit chilly in there but guess what…Nix has plugged in a radiator and it’s been on all day and it’s so snug in there now and guess what, it can stay on all night on low so I stay nice and warm if I decide to go in there again. Nix says this is the best day that she’s had so far but she can’t guarantee that she won’t cough when she gets into bed so we’re all prepared now. This morning was chores time in other words no beach walk. We went to lots of places in town and I met lots of people…everyone compliment...

 I slept in the summerhouse last night. Nix is so much better but she does cough a bit when she goes to bed but apparently she’s putting Vick on her feet tonight because that’s meant to help 🙄 Anyway I don’t like the coughing as you know and so I demanded to be let out. Nix put her dressing gown on and made her way down the garden in the dark and opened up the summerhouse for me and I went onto the sofa and went to sleep. The fox was around, I could hear him but then I drifted off. Apparently Nix could hear the fox too and she was petrified it was going to come into her room while she was asleep 🤣 I wore my fleece coat to the beach this morning because my own coat is quite short but actually it wasn’t really that cold and I don’t think I shall bother to wear it again, I was a bit hot. There was a black Labrador incident but I feel if you scrutinise the video you will see that it was absolutely not my fault. He was standing there wagging his tail looking like he owned the place a...

  We’ve had a lazy hazy day today while Nix continues to recuperate. She is still coughing but not nearly as much. Unfortunately it gets worse when she goes to bed and that’s when I hate it. Last night at midnight she was coughing so I asked to go out and she decided it would be easier to just let me out. She made sure I wasn’t digging up the garden but to be honest I just wanted to get some kip. I went down the side entrance and crashed out. When Nix woke up at 5am (still coughing) I was nowhere to be seen. She put her dressing gown on and found me exactly where she left me last night. I’d slept there all the time even with my new haircut. Nix was horrified and wanted to know why I hadn’t come back in once she’d gone to sleep. She says she will leave the summerhouse door open tonight so if I want to stay out again tonight I can sleep on the sofa. I quite liked it out there, it was lovely and quiet and I could keep an eye open for the foxes and it wasn’t really that cold.  We ...

 First of all I must say that Nix is a lot better today. She’s very touched that you have all been so worried about her but you can all relax. The only reason she didn’t go to the doctors is that we don’t have any face to face appts here in he UK and she honestly didn’t think he’d do anything about it anyway. There’s a bug doing the rounds which is a rotten cough for three weeks. Many years ago she had something similar but she said she was rattling when she breathed in. It really scared her and she made one of her very rare visits to the doctor. He said there was a bug going around but he didn’t prescribe her any ABs or anything because he said there was no infection. So Nix decided to see how it went and as she though it is now getting much better. I hope this clarifies the situation and now you can all go back to worrying about moi 😇 We are still taking it easy and we’ve had three short walks today. First thing we went down the beach and I posed with my new hair do. Pity Nix br...

 We didn’t have a very good night last night in fact we had a really bad one. Nix thought she was dying and to honest she sounded like she was. She just never stopped coughing all night long, it was exhausting. I just wanted out of that house but there was no way. She raised the blinds so I couldn’t damage them and throwing myself at the doors didn’t work either. I didn’t want a repeat of the other night when she really lost her rag so I took myself off to my bed in it’s new position in the corner of the lounge. To be honest I didn’t have much choice because she blocked me out of the spare room and out of the bathroom which are my two favourite digging rooms and I wasn’t allowed in the garden so what’s a chap to do. I know she didn’t want to get up this morning but she had to because I was going to the groomers and I needed a little walk beforehand. We got to the beach just in time to see the sun coming up and I posed for a few photos.  Nix decided she liked my hair a bit lon...

 Nix woke up at about 4.30 this morning. She was doing that awful coughing that I hate and it really disturbed me. I really wanted to go out to the garden, I needed to dig to calm my nerves but Nix refused to let me out. She said it was too early and it was dark and she couldn’t see what I was up to. I’m afraid that when I nearly broke the blind she did start to get a bit narky but the final straw was the digging up of the shower tray. To be honest it was a complete over reaction on her part and do you know what, she swore at me. I can’t repeat what she called me but it wasn’t pleasant to hear at that time in the morning. Eventually she threw the doors open and then threatened me that if she found any semblance of a hole in the flower beds I would be very very sorry indeed. In all the ten years we’ve been together I’ve never seen her that mad. I decided it would probably be best if I went back to sleep. When it was time to get up properly it was all I could do to get Nix out of bed...

 Nix and I are still taking it a little easy. I of course feel much much better but Nix still has her cough and it does tend to wake her up in the middle of the night which in turn wakes me up and it’s very scary in the dark. My demands for being immediately let out in the garden are falling on deaf ears mainly due to the numerous holes that have suddenly appeared in the flower beds. Instead I have to take myself as far away from her as possible which isn’t very easy in a small bungalow.  I know Nix doesn’t like me sleeping a long way away from her so today she has actually been to the pharmacy and bought some medicine for her cough. This in itself was a drama of course because she thought it was going to taste like the Liquifruta her mother used to give her when she was a child. Apparently it was the most disgusting medicine that anyone could ever taste and Nix still has nightmares about it. Anyway she was genuinely surprised when she took her first dose of the stuff she go...