Am trying to squeeze in a quick techno lesson before my son comes home from school and so far I have slid off the internet twice and then had to break off to feed the cat soI am putting in a very quick post just to get started. I thought I would have had time to give this more thought but as usual my day has joined the ranks of all the other pear-shaped days that litter my life.
Here's a little bit of what's coming: I am currently writing a book about my longdogs. Longdogs are a cross between two sight hounds and have a very ancient and noble background, but of late have got a bad press due to their associations with poaching. They are different from lurchers, who have a working dog mixed in with them, maybe a terrier or a collie. They are called Longdogs because they are, well...long. My big dog is a special kind of longdog called a Staghound - a deerhound/greyhound cross and my little dog is a greyhound/saluki cross - we call her a Greyluki - in keeping in line with the current fashion for designer cross-breeds! I hope to introduce you to my dogs over the next few weeks and share with you some of the on-going work from the book with is called THE GYSPY AND THE GIANT: MY LIFE WITH LONGDOGS.
I am looking for all kinds of stories about dogs, but partiuclarly big dogs and longdogs in particular. Please feel free to let me know your best and worst big dog moments. I will be sharing mine with you on this blog....
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C'mon, its just a bit of snow....
Ten years on, and me, the Longdoglad and Kizzy are still enjoying the snow (Longdoglad has grown a bit!)
Oh wow! That's so cool you are writing a book about longdogs. We chatted on the phone earlier about me looking after your dogs. Well I have been looking through all the pictures/stories on your blog & both your dogs are absolutely stunning (maybe especially big Mac!). I really hope that I can help you out with them as they seem like they'd be right up my street ;-)
ReplyDeleteJane - I can't believe I have only just found your comments. Really sorry for not getting back to you - I think my head is still under the Christmas tree somewhere!! It was great to talk to you and I hope we get to meet up and enthuse over our lovely dogs (I checked out your blog). If you have any stories or tips I would love to hear them - am always learning about my dogs. I am about half way through the book but it recently took a back seat to another book I had to finish but I am going to spend some time on it this year if I can. I really started the book so that I could have somewhere to go go on endlessly about my dogs because I can be really boring when I go on about them to people! Hope you had a great Christmas and a happy new year. Cannot believe its the end of February already!!
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