I have
neglected our blog for a couple of weeks, there are reasons for this.
Elisabeth went
on holiday to New York and Dan, her boyfriend, proposed to her so she returned
amid much excitement and celebration.
The wedding is being planned for the summer of 2013 and there is much
excitement in the house, the only thing I have to watch out for is the number
of Bridesmaids as I said I will make their dresses. Perhaps I should have checked how many she is
having first! You wouldn’t think finding
a venue for the wedding would be difficult but it is proving quite troublesome,
so if anyone in Rutland has any ideas please help save my sanity and leave
suggestions, PLEASE!
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| Daisy Dog |
The following
week was extremely traumatic for me, as my very old dog Daisy went
missing. She was approaching 19 years
old and I let her out at dusk, got distracted and when I went to let her back
in 15 minutes later she had, literally, disappeared off the face of the
earth. I was distraught. Daisy was my friend having had her from a
small puppy, she was devoted to me and I was to her. A massive search party, involving lots of
people from our small village have searched high and low but there is no sign
of her. No one has handed her in to the
Police, Dog Warden, Vets or Rescue Centres and now a week has passed I know the
she will not come home. For a few days I
searched hedgerows, gardens and ditches until deciding I was beginning to
torture myself. I suspect that Daisy
either went away to die somewhere or there is the possibility she was taken by
a fox. Many have questioned this idea
but I have lived in the countryside for many years and Daisy was an easy
target, she was deaf, partially sighted and very old. She was easy prey for a fox. She would neither see nor hear a fox
approaching and was unable to fight one off.
I am convinced I heard her bark somewhere in the field opposite about
half an hour after she went missing. One
single bark, the type she gave when someone or thing surprised her, a few
minutes later further down the hedge I hear foxes yapping. Anyway Daisy has gone and the whole family
miss her but we must concentrate on the fantastic years she gave us, it was an
utter pleasure to have had her and we are doubly blessed that we had her for so
long. One day I may discover what
happened to her, meantime we have to try and move on and smile at our memories
and not torture ourselves with unanswered questions.
