Grand Designs

 Hi everyone

I just wanted to share some exciting news with you. We've got a new bespoke kennel, which dad has made entirely from our old garden shed, he even re-used the nails, the only thing that is new is the corrugated roof panels, paint and the bolts which hold the panels together.

Home sweet home

He started it during the November Lockdown and me an' Luther were with him at every stage of the project

First thing we had to do was take it to bits

And then shorten the height

We obviously were on hand to model so that the dimensions were correct

Luther overseeing that the entrance measurements are correct

I think dad also appreciated our company

It's coming along

Once the main kennel was built it was time to design and build the veranda

Dad joined the circular saw club!

Mum was very involved in the design process, she even wanted us to have flower boxes...

...and was involved in the colour scheme as well. 

She didn't help building it though - typical woman. Don't quote me for f**ks sake!

Good news, our old basket will fit inside

Luther took every opportunity he could to distract dad and get him to play

Once the new kennel built and ready to paint it was time to move our old kennel and do the groundwork for the base, I was very paws on at this stage of the project!

Ready to path

FFS Luther

I reckon he had a concrete gob by the time the slabs were laid

After several hold ups due to going on holiday, Christmas, bad weather and snow the day of reckoning finally arrived

The final construction, would it all fit?

We were on hand for moral support

He's looking confident

And he fits inside

Looking good

I think I'll be happy in there

All done - it just needs some flowers and landscaping. F**k me I don't want much!

I begsy the bed, Luther can have the carpet

So there it is, our new home from home. I'm very pleased with it, influenced by our holidays and trips it looks like a cross between a beach hut and a Swiss mountain chalet.

Thanks dad

Take care everyone I'm off for a snooze!

Lots of love from

Rudie THE Dog xx

Tiery Me And Lockdown 3

Hi everyone

How's your 2021 going? Not as good as mine I'd suggest. Here's how my life has been since getting home from Cornwall. 

We got back on December 12th so it was full steam ahead for Christmas. Dad got sent into the loft to get the tree and Christmas stuff down and mum then decorated the house in preparation for the big day.

There was so much talk of relaxing the 'rules' for Christmas and having a five day window for families to get together.

Blimey, you lot have had it tough, I'm not sure how us dogs would cope if we were told that we had to be kept on a lead whilst on a walk, unable to socialise with other dogs, no sniffing each others arses or trying to shag etc for nine months (and counting)!

'Don't let them dogs knock the tree decorations off with their tails' was heard on more than one occasion, we were very careful, oh and neither of us pissed on the tree

Santa came down the chimney early!

A beautiful winters day in Suffolk and a walk from Saxted Mill 

The tier system was very complicated, for dogs to understand, let alone humans. It's like don't shit here, cock your left leg only... We were in Tier 3 so at least we were still allowed to go out in the car. 

Those drummers don't look very enthusiastic

Back in Saxted at lunchtime, just in time for a 'Substantial meal'

Shingle Street on Christmas Eve. Will we ever find the rainbows end?

Roll on 2021 - I'm fed up of wearin' these f**kin' stupid glasses

So's Luther

Everything had changed by the time Christmas Day arrived, Coronavirus cases were on a steep rise so the government told us that five day easing could no longer happen. In the lead up to Christmas London also got put into Tier 4 so nobody was allowed to leave their homes but luckily Sam escaped just in time and got home to our bubble.

We ended up with just him, Max and Steph for Christmas dinner (hopefully mum had catered for more!)

Christmas Day in my woods

FFS if wearing those glasses wasn't enough we now had f**kin' bow ties to wear  on the big day - thanks Max & Steph

Sometimes you just have to go with the flow

Well done mum, always mass catering

Although it would have been nice if Gran & Auntie Jean could have come to dinner as well - every cloud as they say

At midnight on Christmas Day Suffolk was put into Tier 4 which meant that we had to stay at home except for exercise and travel outside the area was banned.

Phew - glad we weren't denied our swim

We also went for a walk around Sutton Hoo which is on the opposite side of the river Deben to Woodbridge

 A medieval ship buried there was discovered in 1938 and there is a film coming out on Netflix in January about it

It's called The Dig - mmmm sounds like my kind of film, perhaps I could be a volunteer archaeologist?

Happy as pigs in shit!

A cold and frosty New Years Eve morning

One last swim of 2020

Happy New Year?

Good news for us, mum has started a January challenge to walk 100 kilometres

F**k Boris is back! Bad news for you lot - he's put us all into lockdown again 

Which meant all non essential travel was banned. 

'Hey stay local' - we spent January walking from home

Swingers

We can fight over a stick anywhere

On a walk around the boardwalks we sneaked into Ipswich Golf Club for a look

I'm confused, how can green be clear surely it will always be green?

You have to take a swim wherever you can during a lockdown

So we did

The only time we went anywhere in the car during January was a visit to Shingle Street 

But first a walk along the river bank to Hollesley

World War 2 Pillar Box

Lookouts 

We also walked by the prison 

'It wasn't me your honour'

Finally made it to Shingle Street

Ah that's heaven

The first snow this winter

Yellow warning for snow...man!

We met up for a walk with Barney at Martlesham Creek 

It was also nice to see a bit of sunshine

We were walking alongside the fields where the horses exercise near to Martlesham when suddenly dopey Luther walked into the electric wire that keeps them in, you should have heard him yelp!

'Can't believe that's still running, all I see is empty buses going past' - by the way that's dad not me!

A frosty walk to Martlesham Creek

Opposite Kyson Point, Woodbridge is on the left, Sutton Hoo ahead and Waldringfield on the right 

Knackered after that

Not much happening in there nowadays

The BT Research site at Adastral Park

They've got some serious satellite dishes in there

There's water in there I'm sure of it

Bealings Road flooded

Rushmere Heath

'On the tee...'

How things have changed, a year ago we were staying with Max & Steph while mum & dad were going on holiday, now we're going there for the weekend as they're fed up of lockdown and are missing us and need company

A swim in the River Orwell

We had a great weekend at M&S's hopefully we can go again soon

Rendezvous at Foxhall stadium and time to hand us back to mum & dad, I wonder if they enjoyed our company as much as we did theirs?

That's January over and I have to say I really enjoyed it, mum smashed her target of walking 100 kilometres and ended up doing over 160 which meant that we got to go on some great walks. I know you humans are getting well pissed off but hopefully you'll soon be allowed some sort of old normality soon.

Stay safe & take care.

Rudie THE Dog xx