And there she was, gone.

 Tasha, mother to 11 dogs, daughter of Bliss and Reuben, Grand child of Rocky and Reba our first Berners from 2006, died in her sleep under the watchful and adoring eye of Arfur dog. This was 6am, 6th of May, she was still warm and cuddly when I found her just lying there. So I scooped her up and sat a while saying goodbye. Tasha will be sorely missed, she almost made 10 years. Another clan member has crossed the rain bow bridge. 

Who knew?

Having just had new tyres fitted it was a bit of an annoyance that driving in to town we pick up a bit of metal that cuts the side wall irreparable 

the only good news was that it was outside the Ssang Yong garage and they fixed me up.

Back home

walk time

with Tasha

and Mrs Bear

and Darcy on the lead.

It was a lovely evening 

and Tasha spent a while pondering in the water 

unfortunately I didn't get many pictures of her 

as all was well, tyres bursting aside, in our world. 

Who knows what they think. 

Heading home. 
 

Out for a spin

Black hawk is down. 

Now the suns out more the bike can be used more 

which is great fun

 

Just in time

Yours truly never imagined owning anything so big that bits of it were rarely checked unless in emergency, not the pony, he's fine, Trevor going through one of his 4x a year colour changes. So this evening a lamb was bleating on Oak bank, after a while it was clear it was lost/in need of help so I dutifully climbed up to see how it was doing at which point it did the sensible thing and ran off.

Which was when I discovered the half dozen or so sheep and lambs who were supposed to have buggered off weeks ago as they belong to the militia were still there.

And being woooly backs and exceedingly dull they had got themselves into the fields and obviously forgot the way out. Now they were very hungry and thirsty and at deaths door.

Several attempts later they found the massive grey portal to the world beyond the barren dry field and sourced plenty of free scoff 

so while the sun set on yet another adventure 

we can all rest knowing the worlds dullest food source will survive until the annual pie round up. 
 

Blink and youll miss it

Having spent a considerable amount of money on having a bus made up in icanfoster logos

its good to see it on the roads, although blink and youll miss it!

After todays park run which incidentally went very well albeit not as quick as I had hoped, this was collected and added to the toy collection, a purpose built kayak trailer!

We also went to a garden centre and much to their disappointment couldn't afford the 5k needed to buy this garden feature. 
 

Stand up day

Some days are almost like a week, so we find a new statue on the school run

Find an unexplained rock on the lane, meteorite or rockfall, but sand coloured?

Dogs get a long walk with Tasha leading 

loving life.

Mrs Bear following 

and as it was such a nice day

we took the hard route down

Tasha lead the way again

Mrs Bear following 

then 

once we got down the rocks

found a pig in the house 

took the small Kwack out for 

a fun ride

in all its 1980s goodness

back on the hill

this time with Spotty2  and Roscoe

before meeting up with daughter and potential son in law

they are very well suited

and on the the theatre 

to see Marcus Brigstocke....