Ice Age 4

Ello for you. Today we is talkin bout what has been happenin in our garden cos it do be very strange indeed. You might remembers that here in the UK we ad a ice age the other week and the garden did look like this...



Well now the ice ave retreated and so Lola and me did go out to see what we could find in this brave new world. Lola did go to ave a look at the wood piles first and look what she did see...



...woz a spiky creature wiv a pointy nose. I didn't like dat so I wents to look at the apple trees and see what I did find there...



Lola did try and talks to him but we cuddn't unnerstand what he woz sayin..



We fort we would play football, but anuvver animal had got there before us and he also did not speak dog...



We decided we would go back to the patio and looks from there cos it might be safer and we would be able to see more. Look, who is comin?....oo....er




Woz big scary bear! Yikes!

We decided that might be best to go insides where there would be less wildlife. But, oh no, Mr Penguin was in the fridge...



He tried to run away but I had to sniff him to see if he smell of cheese (which is my new favourite thing). But he did not.



The day was goin from bad to worse. There was a green phing in daddy's shoe...




...and he could not be nommed...



Frogs in Willium's sock drawer...



Cows muscling in on our space on the back of the sofa...



An lizards (yeuk) comin in fru da windows...



Me an Lola had a urgent conference and decided that there was only one course of action: run upstairs and ide in Willium's bed and ope that there was nufink scary in there like....say...minature dogs wiv big eyes...



Aaaaggggggghhhhhhhhhh.......

Marley *from under da covers* .....woof (juss a tiny one)

I shall be busy from next years

It do seem that I have been called for public service in recognishun of my mannee abilities. I am very humble and expect it only a few months before I shall be needin to "spend more time with my familee".




VOTE MARLEY

Woof!

Border Terrier Central

As you know, I iz on a misshun to find all of the border terriers on Twitter. It is a nice place for me to meet my friends and I likes puttin people in touch wiv each other.

Yesterday, my good friend Mr Mo joined Twitter (@borderterriermo) and sent me a message and so I introduce him to my followers (de army of nerds) and within a few minnits he had 15 new chums. I think he ave a surprise when he get up this mornin. Here is Mr Mo bein tuff in the snow the other week...



This got me thinkin that I have not said a proper hello for everyone I know. You may rememebr that last year I introduce you to my old chums who ave been around for ages. You can see them again here.

It do feature Bertie, Bauer, Dino, Ernie and all the rest and of course my best friend furevver, Lexie.

Today, we are sayin ello for my new pals. First we say ello for Ghilley, who is a lady, and we menshum her first cos she did lose her brother Duff before Christmas and we is sad for er...



Then we say WOOF to Mac n Ginger (@borders2) who live in Australia and spend all their time upside down I phink...



We say nice big ello for Impi (@impibrdrterrier)who has recently hurt her foot, and her mum Jooly...



Next we say quiet and gentle woofs for little Gracie (@ourgracie) who is only a pup...



We muss not forget Jake n Zoe (@borderjoy) cos they do ave the best border terrier website on the web which you can see ere ....



And now we have Lily (@lilyskitchen) cos her peeple make nice noms..



I also say special ello for Banjo (@banjoisadog) who is always talkin on Twitter...



An also we have Wile E. and Sally who live with their pawson @woofette30 in America...




In Devon, if you is there, you may see the magnificant Monty and is mum @devonmuse. Monty is a dog after my own heart...



Ello for you Meg n Ben and your mum (@carolynmitch). I ope I see you on Twitter soon...



One of them is a bit shy.

Also I say WOOF for Millie whose pawson run a very valuable service tellin peeple about pubs wot like dogs (@doggiepubs) and I phink Millie do check em out first even if she has to battle fru snow to do it...



Nuvver pup next. It do be Pixel (@pixelbt) who is so tiny you ave to be vary careful not to squash him or frighten im barkin...



My chum Ted loves chicken and that is why on Twitter he is @tedloveschicken. He also likes lyin about...



Ello and WOOFs for Maggie who live with a fousand birds cos her mum Sara like em so much(@mumsmuddyveg) ....



We also has Gem n Rosie who we does not see very often on twitter (@suzannegray04) but we say ello anyway...



Also, ere is Harvey who has fuzzy pants I am told (@harveyfuzzpants)...



Archie! Archie! Is you there? I phink he is out with his mum who is Jan (@sacksnstories) cos they is always very busy...



An see ere we have Jack who lives with @cheelo and we duz see him only a very little...



...perhaps cos he is a giant dog and as to be guarded by the army or sumfink..

Also, Mr Ian (@pooleaxed) ave Jack n Sandy....and he talks to us almost every day. This be Sandy...



I dussn't kno what ave happended to Jack. I waits for Ian to tells me.

Sometimes we gets news of Maggie n Merlin from America (@camerawomn)...



One of our very newest pals is Scraps who lives with his mum Mel (@melthedroog) who I phink is not a real droog...



Poor old Scraps looks like a tired pup to me. We ad better tiptoe past him and get to our last (but not least) pals. Here are Peggy-Sue and Lottie who live with @janechapman71




Also I say hello for my Charlie who does live with Adam (@the monkeytramp). He is a fine fellow...



Finally, we gets to little Oscar (@thedogstaleblog), who is also a little pup who need lookin after by his dad, Sebastian...




Ello for you all. I ope we can elps to build a border terrier community on Twitter.

Woof.

Marley Twit.....

Stressbustin

Now the new year ave finally kicked in and peeple have started goin back to normal after the Chrismass olidays. Willium ave gone back to skool, daddy ave gone back to work and mummy ave gone back to watchin Richard & Judy and doin er nails :o)

We is worried bout this cos it do be stressful for humans when they is not allowed to be on their olidays. They as to do phings they duss not like and that can lead to them bein bitey and shoutin and bein miserable and forgettin to take out their dogs for a walk.

I ave decided that I will give a lesson in stressbustin so that everyone is appy and life can proceed as normal.

First, you ave to start by tryin to relax your muscles and empties your mind (unless you is Lola, whose mind is empty most of the time). My sister, Lola, is ere demonstratin the correct posishun...



Also, is possible that sittin somewhere nice can do this. I show how this is done



After your mind is free of earfly considerayshuns, you as to relax from the tip of your nose to the ends of your tail (or ead and feet if you is a human). This can be done as shown in the diagrams underneaf..



But I do say that there is various postures that you can use. You ave to find one that suit yourself and then stretch out everyfink and then let in go floppy again. It is highly effective as you see ere..



An also there is possibilty of doin it wiv your friends....or if you are short then you can allow your sister to partissypate..



What I likes especially is to have help from the hoomans for gettin the crick out of my neck...



After we ave done the stretchin and relaxin then we ave to cool down by goin in the snow. This open the pores and allow tension to pour out of you....



And then we ave to hop under nice warm towel for gettin warm and takin tension out of the body...



If that do not help wiv tension then I does not kno what will. See here one of my patients who is now even doin stressbustin exercise in his sleep cos he is grandmaster of relaxayshun..



I dussn't recommend that til you ave had a few lessons...

I ope that will be helpin with stress for everyone who is not on oliday any more.

Marley Masseur