Thursday, November 20, 2008

1 Knit or 2 Knits.

Oh dear Tasha has joined a knitting club at school and when she has problems, like dropping a stitch or gaining stitches who does she ask????? Yep muggings here well that's OK I can knit to a point. So it is a bit of fun being able to help her sort any problems she encounters.
She is beginning to gather up a stash of wool.

She has inherited Little Grandma's spinning wheels and when the local art club sold Grandma's painting things they gave the money to Tasha. I managed to buy a Louet hat box spinning wheel for her. She took to that wheel like a duck to water. OK she has learnt to spin with my wheel ages ago. Mind you she does not spin enough at the moment. She inherited her Granddad's electric key board as she fancied to learn key boards at school.

2007 was not a good year for us

Last year was a bit bad both Little Grandma (my Mum) and Granddad (Jenny's Dad) died and then our dog died at Ravenscar when she ran off down the cliff path and disappeared.
Mum died in January 2007 sadly I could not visit her in hospital because of a nasty S & D bug so she died quietly on her own. She got the last laugh it was my brothers partners birthday ( Mum and her did not get on ). Jenny's dad died in the summer after succumbing to cancer.

Our First day out for years

Our dog Cadbury must have known something she was extra perky that day we went to Ravenscar she pulled all the way until I had to let her off the lead so I could help Tasha down a steep bit and Cads had gone.


Cads in her element at Harrold Park















I went down to the bottom to try find her and was given a message by someone coming down to go back up and I had only just got down there. So thinking Cads had turned up went up. Nope no dog Jen was just worried I was OK !!!!!!!!


Blummin knackered by then I was. So we went to the car to have some grub. Jen went knocking on doors for help etc. After some food I went down again looking for Cads.


On the way back up with out the dog I got a phone call from the Coast Guard "Stay where you are we will send a helicopter for you"

"Eh what for"

Some twit got the wrong idea just because I had had a heart transplant I was in need of help.

I ended up with 12 coastguards out looking for me and the dog and a helicopter coming out to get me !!!!!!!!

It started raining while I was waiting for the helicopter otherwise I would have got back to the car and been a bit dryer.

Well I am sorry to say I had to turn down the helicopter ride to a hospital. Why I had Jen and Tasha in the village in the car and Jen does no drive now. I was told not to go down looking for Cadbury tomorrow just in case I got in difficulty DUH!!

It was rather late when we got home and it chucking it down with rain.

A bout a week later we had a message from Boggle Hole that Cadbury had been found and looked like she had just curled up and died. When she died I do not know but could have been that day she ran off. She loved water so at least she was near water when she died.

Well that was last year. We lasted a few weeks with out a dog and decided we wanted one we were all getting rather grumpy. So we looked for another dog. Jen and Tasha wanted a medium sized dog and I just wanted another Dachshund. Well we went and visited a dog rescue place and saw more by chance than anything else a small Jack Russel not that we wanted one but He was a hit. I think it was just one of those thing that was meant to be. So we said we would think about him and this meant 3 more visits. We talked about the situation after all we did not want a male dog nor a Jack Russel but he was so good with Tasha and not snappy or too bouncy.

So Jenny and I went to see him during the week and paid a deposit for him not telling Tasha that he was going to be ours. We went to see him on the Friday and brought him home. He went straight to our back door when we got home without being shown. Later we went to pick up Tasha from school. Jenny hid round the corner with the dog ( Oh his name is Merrick) and I waited for her to come out. By the time she came out all her friends were round Jenny and Merrick so Tasha never saw them until one of her friend said I like you dog Tasha.

Come here I wanna cuddle


Tasha's face was a picture when she managed to get her jaw off the floor she went to fuss him. Anyway they are both suited she just comes in from school scoops him up for a cuddle. He is a right cuddle dog and a bed Buffalo.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jacky said...

Is Tasha strill struggling with her knitting? I'm in Selby, and happy to help, if I can ;)

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