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Welcome to "Man with two dogs" - the family website for dog owners and dog walkers.
This is my countryside diary which appears each Saturday in the Courier & Advertiser newspaper.
Archive for October, 2006
Low fungi & high trees
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
MUSHROOMS, TOADSTOOLS – or ‘puddockstools’ as some folk used say. But a puddock is a frog (I’ve sometimes seen it spelt ‘paddock’), and you don’t get ‘frogstools’. It must all get a bit confusing if you didn’t grow up in ‘Courier’ country. (more…)
Another mixed bag
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
THE MYSTERIES of nature continue to confound me. Out with the dogs for their morning walk I found an olive green egg lying in the pathway. It couldn’t have been there long because it’s a busy path and it would soon have been trodden on by man or dog. (more…)
Sons of the soil
Saturday, October 14th, 2006
FLAGS FLUTTERING and banners blowing in the wind – it looked like it might be a film set for a jousting tournament. But monstrous tractors swarming over the fields suggested other things. (more…)
In a Scottish glen
Saturday, October 7th, 2006
THE DOGS and I made a swift executive decision and took ourselves up Glen Esk to blow away the cobwebs and enjoy a bit of space. Walks have to take account of Inka’s long legs and Macbeth’s sawn-off short ones. I spend my time with one eye on Inka to make sure he’s not bounding out of sight, and turning back to urge Macbeth to get a shift on! (more…)