Heidi may well tell him that herself, with force, fury and claws to the snout one day.
“Feck off, Dog!” ( although it’s hard to imagine your wee girl sounding much like Father Jack)
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That’s our Fish! What a hoot - but, well done!
Soo xx
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Fishy, I have just dislocated a tonsil.
Pushing poor hounds out of trees indeed. How do you go on when confronted with sloths? Or koalas?
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She hasn’t hissed at him or threatened him with claws, but she does wither him with her ‘look’. Yesterday she turned her back on him and started rolling around in the sand (she likes to do that). I thought that was a bit reckless.
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I steer well clear.
Not getting him out of the tree would have meant wasting a lot of perfectly good dog-food that we had in the house for him.
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Didn’t you do something similar for an ungrateful sheep one time? I forget the whole story, so do to tell it again if you care to.
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Oh, I was young and foolish then. I should have left it to drown.
The local river was in spate, and the sheep had walked out along a ledge above it to the point at which it could neither go on nor turn round. So I went after it to try and help; whereupon it pushed me off the ledge into the water, and then jumped on me.
Luckily we washed up undrowned, no thanks to the sheep. They are all homicidal, sheep.
Or as a friend put it: “The ambition of a sheep is death. If it can take you with it, that’s even better from the sheep point of view.”
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Dallie dawgs are not bright really
I grew up with a liver spotted dallie called Katie
A great dog to walk but no use to my poor Grandpa who wanted a retriever as he was a gamekeeper
I am in a bar at a rally and the background music is Carols galore
In May!!!
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If he bought a Dalmatian to use as a retriever he was given bad advice: they are not suitable for that job at all. They are guard dogs, not gun dogs.
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My Aunt bought her for my cousins who were pre school and when Katie needed a home because she was not a child plaything of a dog she came to Grandad and ended up being my friend who was delighted to go with me on my roller skates scooter or bike or feet as I roamed far and wide
I was only a month older than my cousin but I had a beach a promenade and a number of nice country lanes to explore for hours on end
Katie was my minder
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Well, it’s about the best time of year to enjoy them without being smothered in the blasted things.
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I do not enjoy carols at any time of year
Unless they are nice folk carols
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Yeractual carols, I often get on wiv. Especially if pre-1800 but even some of the more recent stuff can be well done. (Though I abandoned our local church’s carol service because it was very badly done, and far too modern for my taste. And why they needed a mixing desk three times the size of the one that supports a six-piece band who are paying for it themselves…)
“Christmas Music”, on the other hand, can die in several fires.
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Has anyone else noticed that the New World symphony has a chunk of it that is “In the Bleak Midwinter”? Holst must have nicked it from Dvořák, is what I say.
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Yep.
And I now have a Lehrer Ohrwurm
'Holst nicked it from Dvořák
Who had it from Mendelssohn ’ und so weiter
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They might both have nicked it, of course. The Dvorak was inspired by memories of home, including Czech folk music, which he quoted liberally. Tunes do travel…
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But who gave it to Ravel?
L’Heure Espagnole has it now…
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JS Bach was a filker
He did not write this tune
The composer was Hassler
Who’s turning in his tomb
Because some folks think Johann
Wrote this fine melody
JS Bach was a filker
The lesson’s plain to see.
JS Bach was a filker
Paul Simon was one too
He also stole this melody
To write “American Tune”…
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Loud applause
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Not mine; someone called Valerie Housden, I think.
A Short Treatise on the History of Filk (Valerie Housden & Anne Rundle/Hassler arr. Bach, Brown & Simon)
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