A Gentleman in Pimlico

Ello for you. I iz doin my blog toonite cos I do ave some very excitin news for you wot haz just happened to me.

We was suprised very early this mornin when dad do take us out for early walk. We dussnt usually be out at 8 am for walkin so we kno dat sumfink was appenin. We was worried that they was plannin to go out and leaves us on our own all day. Owever, we did only be back from our walk and juss had the mud wiped from our paws whem dad is rattlin the leads again and sayin me we goin to London, wot do be the capital city.

I get in the car and cos it is 20 miles we do take our bed. Is we goin see the Queen? No? I leave her peemail instead then so she duz know we was in her nayberhood.

We gets to London and first we do go and see our friends in Shepherds Bush. This do not be too unusual and even tho has been rainin I catch up wiv pals wot do walk these streets...

Oh yes, we is hazzin a nice time there but after only one hour Lola is standin by front door whinin and sayin this cannot be wot excitment is about an we gots to get off and do sumfink else....

So we is drivin across London. This is mostly wot it do look like....

....an also dad was cross wiv the Queen cos she has left red christmas lights at the end of every road and dad do ave to stop and look at em until they is goin green and he get bored. We drivin for a bit til dad say me we is in Pimlico. Is highly posh part of town and we is on our best behavious....until we do see this..



Wot? Lily's Diner? Lily's Kitchen? Wot do be run by our border terrier pal Lily from the twitter?...

Oh My Dog! It do be Lily....and we duz be makin a fuss of her. And then a pretty lady do come over and say "Who do we have ere?". Dad say is Marley and Lola and I tell you I is blushin cos of the lady, right down to ends of my four paws. And then the nice lady say "Not the famuss Marley from twitter?" and I is blushin to the tips of my beard. Then she say me she is readin my blog and followin my tweets and she has a treat for me...

*mum wearin paper bag on ead again!*

She haz laid a table for lunch!! Wow, i dussn't usually get no lunch so I am very excited.....so excited that I do forget my manners a little bit...

But is Ok cos I see Lily doin same fing.....

and when we haz finished we haz a look round the shop at all the pawsome noms wot Lily has got in her shop....

We did see some sophisticated London dogs who was dressed in the latest fashuns...

Phew, there was a lot and we did run around and be very excited. There was all sorts of doggies in there hazzin a look about and the treats was free and we did try wun of each sort. Then I am a bit tired and Lily did say me to try the Snooze Area...

....and while I am doin that Lily is stealin belly rubs from dad...

...and I fink she is sayin "I gib you 6 out of 10 unless you is rubbin a bit harder Mister Typist"....

...and then one of the other ladies in the shop do ask me if I would haz a belly rub on the speshul belly rubbin couch....wot is a dog to do?...

...and they was such pawsome belly rubbins that I let Lola haz a go too...

We was very sad to be leavin the ladies in the shop who was all very nice and friendly to dogs and obvioulsy they duz kno how to treat a border terrier....but we dussnt leave wivout fillin up a bag of swag to takes away wiv us for later.....

You can imagine wot do appen later when we do be gettin ome for our dinner....

...and it was so good i haz to check that there is none left at all....

And we do say you sum fings bout Lily's Diner. It do be at 30 Pimlico Road in Pimlico in London. They is open every day until 23 December from 10am to 6pm (unless you is goin Sunday when is 11am to 4pm). You can see they menu and details ere

We is recommendin you is goin, espeshully if you is a dog wiv a appetite. We do ope the nice lady wot was lookin after us will put her names in the comments so we can say ello. We did forget to arsk her when we was there...

Marley Blumenthal....woof

A bizee week

Ello for you. Wot do be appenin? Well....you tell me later.

Last weekend we done two fings I tell you about. First we went to Wimbledon where peeple be playin tennis. But we did only go to a park and not to the big tennis place. However, some peeple was playin tennis in the park and we did watch em....

...but sum of them woz not very good so I lefted some advice for them on the message board....

On the nex day we did go for a walk on Headley Heath, where we do go most days. Only the day before, I had been tellin my pal Shawnee about the cows we do see there sumtimes and then look wot we did see as if by magic...

....we did watch em for a bit but we ad to leave after a few minnits cos they did start the roody fings...

....after such a bizee weekend, we was very tired and me an Lola did relax by the fire and play at "Centipede"...

...but I wasn't finkin and I did get the wrong end....so the next day I did ask dad if I could share his curry...



....so now I haz the "ammunition"  for next time we play an I make sure I get the right end...nex day was excitin one cos we was sendin  Dad to London on a misshun to see one of our best pals. He follow usual trip to werk but he did see this on the bus...

...it was a misstery and no one was willin to move it even tho the bus was packed. Sumone say me it might haz been a German tourist reservin their seat for later...but I say nuffink bout that.

Anyway, dat afternoon he did go to Hyde Park where he did meet bootiful dog-about-town @bridietheborder...

...and she did show him how to find squirrels in the trees there. She did also bring a very nice present for me...

....she say it was also for Lola, but I fink that was a mistake and she dint mean it.

As if that wasn't enuff excitement for one week, next day was Willium's burfday and we did get for him a copy of new book by our great pal @henryandfriends...

...and he has not stopped larffin bout it yet. He was also given speshul massage dog.....and i may haz borrowed it for testin...

....and it has werked and so I did end this week's blog wiv a little nap...

..and I do be seein you next week I ope.

Bizee Marley....woof

Wot price is comfortable?

Ello for you. The other day I was avin a relax in my beanbag....



....this is not laziness you understand. Oh no! Is preparayshun for later when I do be needin energy. I fink Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps do same. So...I was finkin about the importance of bein comfy.

Cats dussn't know comfy...




....they is animals of little brane when it do come to knowin ow to make sure they is adequately supported at bofe ends. Mebbe is cos they haz long tails.

Even Lola, who do be a dog of very limited intellygence, do understand wot is comfy...



...even if sumtimes it do end up lookin a bit like "Tonight on CSI Surrey"...



You dussn't ave to be nappin in your bed to be comfy. You duz it where it do feel OK...



....and mebbe you haz to get your friends to join in for maximum comfyness..



I am very particular about my comfy zones. Sumtimes I do ave to tell Willium that he is sittin in my spot...



....and also Lola do ave to make way when I has found somewhere warm for my butt to spend the evenin...



...you see her waaaaaaay over by the fire?......oh....hang on...

So, I be sayin for you dat dere is no price you can put on bein comfy...






Only very infrequently do I put up wiv some not-comfy. This is usually when I do be gettin staff to groom I...



And befor I go tooday I do be wishin some extra comfy for my old pal Jeep. She haz been poorly and we do kno that her mum Nayomee (wot do be an old twitter pal of ours) is worryin bout her...



...extra comfy for you my pal.

Woof......Marley Sofa x

A little dog in a big world

I fink sum of you do know my pal Arfur Brandon who do be @monkeysbrother. He is well know naturist .....



...an also a very clever dawgie. He tell me that I am the funniest terrier he know (we dussn't discuss ow many terriers he kno in case the answer do be embrassingly small) and so I say him that he should be my sponsor....



...and so he has begun a nationwide campane on my behalfs. He did ave to ave his peeple's peeple up all night to get fings launched in proper style...



I was so appy wiv da results that I tell Arf we should go global.....



...and now I am big in Taipei (note to Arf: we missed a "Big in Japan" joke ere my chum).

Owever, so expensive was the internashnul side of fings that soon I was down to my last bone and we was avin to cut a few corners....



...but juss when fings was not lookin so good, we got unexpected endorsement from a rich pawson...





...and I haz been able to complete the purchase of my new away strip wiv sponsor's logo...



...and our messij is really gettin across....



Marley Beckham....woof

Power of pawsitive finkin

*border terrier enters stage right doin the appy dance*

Ello for you. Tooday we is bringin you good news and tidins of great joy. *clappin of paws*

I fink you is rememberin that two weeks ago we wast tellin you about our pal Stewie wot do live in Canada. He was a very poorly pup and we was all very worried about him.

Today, we did see this from his mum, Patti...



There he is on the left, lookin a bit fin and tired but very much up and about and bein appy. We do say that wiv luv from his pawsons, help from his sister Frankie and also lots of kind forts and messijs from our pals on twitter, he is on the mend.

*more appy dancin* Hurray for Stewie! Hurray for twitter! We do say fank you for everyone wot did leev a nice sayin for Stewie.

Wot a speshul friend he is...



And we see that he do ave got his strengff back suffishuntly to be showin Taz the Cat who is boss of dis place...



You can be catchin up wiv his progress wiv @jonesgirl_3

Dr Marley.....woof

Little bits of stuff

Ello for you. I haz some bits and pieces for you dis week cos we dint do anyfink very big or excitin.

First we is sayin ello for our new neighbour, Max. We see im on our walk and we say him we would put im on our blog. A bit like Lola, he dussn't like his fur bein stripped and he is clipped instead so he is more floofy than me....



...ello for you Max...

In other news, the peeple wot do run our local common has put up some new signs. Wot you fink of dat? Before, they say not to be usin no poop bags cos is just bad for the environment and we is walkin in wide open country space so wot is the point of movin it....



....now they hazzin other ideas I fink.

You might remember that I haz embarked on course of treetment wiv the vets. She say me the first fing I gotta do before anyfink else is get my tick meddysin and fings up to date....but that do mean hazzin a barff to get clean before the meddysin do be applied...mebbe i can find a way out of here....



....oh, mebbe not...



...well, you mek sure I is dry pleez....



I is finkin that in that last photo you can see my cataracts quite clearly. I haz been to a big vet ospital to ave em checked out. Here it is...



.....mum taked some photos inside but they woz rubish so we dussn't post em. Anyway, the vet say me that I has to come to see em on 9th November to ave an ERG. Wot dat i hear you askin. Well, it is electroretinogram where the vet do be lookin in your eyes. She say me she gotta check if my eyes is diseased or not. If not, then we can haz the catracts operated on. But if they is diseased...well....we dusnnt kno wot we will do....



Then the vet say me that is dangerous if you haz any infekshuns when you is hazzin a big operayshun like cataracts so I gotta ave my teef cleaned cos they is mebbe not as clean as she would like and might put germs and fings inside me when she is werkin on my eyes. So, on Monday I did ave no noms for brekkfast and was taked to the vets to ave my teef cleaned. I didnt mind this cos it was only at 10.30 but then woz a mergency for another animal and I had to sit and wait and dint get no lunch or anyfink and ad my op quite late. When we was there we did meet giant doggie, but he dint tell me his name...but he was friendly..



Now I haz the clean teefs and I do be usin em to frighten the squirrels in my garden. However, I haz been somewhat wobbly since the annasfettic and being a bit dozy and movin round slowly....



....so I been relaxin by the fire...and Willium been lookin after me...



...and on my walks I has been slow and angin around so that mum has to come and get me...and evevn did carry me one day...



I say you ave a nice day and I do see you ere again I opes.

Marley....woof

No!

We do rilly appreciate our pals on Twitter and this week we haz been worryin about our pal Stewie wot do live in Canadia. He hav been poorly and we dussn't like it so until he is at ome and feelin hisself again we is standing guard over him and not lettin any nasty infekshuns get to im.

Here he is wiv his sister Frankie in appier days...



Stewie gotted Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia. Here is a linky to sum informayshun bout it LINKY

I am opin dat some of you can leave messages for Stewie and his mum, Patti (who is @jonesgirl_3 on twitta) and elp my stand guard against the nasty germs. I do be blowin rasberries at em *pfffffzzzzllll".

Dr Marley.....woof