We're all set! Departing tomorrow!

Neighbour looking after the hens.

Sadie and Bing had an extensive play on the beach before going to their luxury accomodation.

Some of the places we will be frquenting shortly!

Watch this space!

The last couple of weeks in pictures!

V is for...Vacation.

Bing and Elsie spent a vacation together at Cliff Top Kennels, just outside Scarborough.

We watched as they were taken to their kennel.

 

 

 

 

They had a great time and Elsie showed Bing the ropes.  Ella also stayed in the cattery here whilst Freida spent the time with her favourite neighbour, Joyce. Whilst we were away we often wondered how Bing would be getting on with his first holiday away but we assured ourselves that Elsie would be talking to him in doggy speak telling him that we would be back and we would be back to normal.

Well we are back and things are back to normal - well as normal as things go in the Nesbitt household!

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We're off!

The house is quiet.....the bags are packed.
Earlier today we drove through the thick fog to Scarborough, where Elsie is sharing a kennel with Bing and Ella has a little place all to herself.
Freida was driven to Auntie Joyce, a neighbour and the hens are busy at work laying eggs as a daily thank you to Emma our immediate neighbour who is looking after them!

The weather has been dreadful but hey ho - the sun shines on the righteous and I have faith that tomorrow the sun will shine down on Jon and I as we tootle over the Yorkshire moors, through the Yorkshire dales then over the Irish sea to the Isle of Man!

Watch this space!

Nesbitt Pet Business.

It's that time of the year again......preparing for our annual pilgrimage to the Isle of Man TT. The animals are all booked in to their various accommodation .

 Elsie and Bing will be going over to Scarborough to stay with Auntie Jill here. http://scarboroughdogs.org.uk/pages/facilities.htm. Ella will also be staying there in the cattery. Ella does not travel well and whilst normally she is a very clean cat we tend to have a little accident on route. We daren't let her out on the morning we take them to Scarborough in case she didn't return in time and this would have our plans out of the window. So - we pack the dogs, bedding, food then bring Ella's transport cage into the house and try to get her in with minimum fuss! (Easier said than done!) We then head out to Scarborough hoping....
1. The road wont be too busy 
2. We don't get stuck behind a slow moving vehicle...or
3. Hit roadworks.

Past experience would indicate we will encounter one of the three and Ella will get stressed and drop a little protest.

Freida will be staying with a neighbour and enjoying 3 walks a day as Joyce loves walking....and dogs - so they will both be happy! Freida will have a rest from puppy rearing and a break from Elsie.

We have taken them for their various boosters and kennel cough treatments at a cost of £94. The boarding fees alone will be approaching £350 so hopefully we may have a few pence left for the odd meal whilst we are away! lol!

I was quite worried about taking Ella to the vets. She has a cyst which fills up with fluid on a regular basis. We take her to get it drained but it returns. She is well over 15 and we don't want to cause her any unnecessary stress...so when I discovered more lumps I was very concerned. The vet gave her a full examination and concluded that they were not causing Ella any pain or discomfort and it would be wise not to have them drained at the moment as the process would interfere with her immune system and the booster's impact would be decreased - so we will attend to this on our return.

The hens will stay in the henhouse but will be let out and locked away at night by our neighbour. The benefit for Emma our neighbour is she will get fresh eggs on a daily basis whilst we are away!

January 2013

I keep reading people are taking the tree down and are feeling better for it. Today I took our tree down. It was a new purchase this year, our previous one was in a sad way and every year saw more branches take another bashing - it was over 20 years old too. As the lounge was decorated last year the previous colours of the tree - gold and red did not go with the new colours of Brassica and Hound Yellow see here so I bought some silver baubles and planned to buy some purple ones too, so was rather thrilled to find some reduced to 50p for a box of 12 in Homebase on Boxing Day! Whilst too late for this year they are now packed away for next year. Looking at the photograph of the lounge (link above) I definitely want some purple curtains for the winter months as the current ones would be such an uplifting change when Spring arrived.

The Sales have been advertised everywhere and I am pleased to say I have bought a couple of Christmas presents for 2013 together with some Christmas Cards I saw which gave me an idea for the ones I am going to make in a couple of weeks. Watch this space.

2013 is certainly going to be a busy year here in Nesbittland. We have our annual tootle over to Isle of Man for the TT at the end of May/first week of June where we celebrate both Jon's birthday and our wedding anniversary. It is our Silver Wedding this year and we are planning a rather spectacular bash for close friends and family, so I will be in my element sorting this out. We thought long and hard about going on a special holiday of some sort and decided on touring the wine regions of France. This should be a hoot!

Bing continues to grow and develop into a fabulous little man. He has his second vaccination in just under 2 weeks, then after a week I will be taking him to puppy training classes. Both Elsie and Freida are helping him settle in. He has had a couple of warning nips from them both but they get along really well. He is absorbing information all the time, we are so pleased with him.

His ears are creeping up!
Watch this space!

T is for....TT!

On Friday we set off for the Isle of Man and the 2012 TT Road Races. The next couple of days will be spent winding down and settling up Jon's business - always last minute jobs and subsequent invoices, getting the animals sorted for their respective places of holiday accommodation, tidying up the house and of course packing.

We are expecting good weather - we tend to take the sunshine whenever we go away on the motorbike - unless of course we travel with friends when it tends to rain - hence why we go away on our own.

Watch this space and watch out for us on TV! The Olympic torch is set to travel past the Grandstand on June 2nd. This just happens to be Jon's birthday and we have grandstand tickets!

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