Up The Farway Tree

A Bumble Bee, Indiana Jones and some nuns....





I had another busy weekend! Friday night we popped round to Andrews gran's as Anne and John were coming up for a quick visit. I very helpfully offered to bring some dinner round, as they would be arriving quite late. I decided to try a new chicken casserole recipe. Cooking for other people is never a good time to try a new recipe! It was looking pretty good until I started reducing the stock and it just got saltier and saltier until I could hardly bare it - something to do with the entire packed of smoked bacon that I put in. I had a minor panic, until I decided to pour an entire carton of cream in...worked a treat and probably only added about 1000 calories or something ;-)

On Saturday we took Seb to the country park, as it was a lovely sunny day for the first weekend in ages. Everyone had the same idea and the park was the busiest I have seen it all year! This meant meeting lots and lots of dogs, but Seb got on really well and I think mixing with the dogs at training has really helped him. We were practising recall by allowing the lead to it's full extent, waiting until he was busy sniffing something or other and then calling him and rewarding him with a treat. He was doing really well, especially when he realised I had treats! I am hoping one day he will be reliable enough to be allowed off lead in safe areas. Maybe wishful thinking though.

We were at a Halloween party on Saturday night - me dressed as a bumble bee, Andrew as Indiana Jones and mum and dad were a pair of nuns ;-) It was rather amusing! My mum drove us to the party, so there was a pair of nuns in the front and me and Andrew in the back. Dad kept telling her to drive faster when we got into well lit areas in case anyone saw us. I was almost hoping we got pulled over by the police just for some comedy value.






We played that game where you wrap people in toilet roll to make them like a mummy - I had to be the victim for our team, since I am the smallest. I must say, it's rather claustrophobic being entirely wrapped in toilet roll - especially when they got me to spin round and round to make it quicker, and at the same time mum decided to wrap my head up so I had no concept of where I was spinning!



We also did douking for apples - i had a go at this, although could hardly get my head into the bowl because of the other lady's costume! This is me looking rather wet, and Andrew being force fed vodka jelly by the lovely Alison, because he didn't win his douking contest!




Yesterday we went to a new outdoor shop and I bought some walking trousers, waterproofs and Andrew got walking trainers...so we are all set now for some practice runs! Just need to find the time and the energy :-) There are lots of nice places to walk near where we live, so we really have no excuses. Speaking of walking, I am off now to take Seb out to practice his walking to heel and turns, haha. He is getting pretty good now and performed really well at his class last week. He did veer off to the side when doing recall though and at the last minute turned back and came right to me....I think he was just playing with us! Got a sense of humour that dog...