Welcome to "Man with two dogs" - the family website for dog owners and dog walkers.

THE SIREN sea sang her song and, like the bidden fiddler, I went – but I didnae get my gill of whisky!  

THE WIDEOPEN (it's local adaptation used to be the  Wee Dappin') is the old road that cuts off from the A937 just north of Marykirk and crosses over the hill to Kirkside, just south of St Cyrus   It's well named, because it's rather bleak and wide open to the weather    

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HOLIDAY COTTAGES and family pets don't always go together; but the Doyenne and I have come back from a week's holiday at Loch Melfort where dogs are welcome.

I SPENT a fascinating morning with Councillor Bob Spink, retired Arbroath fish merchant and encyclopaedic authority on Arbroath, in particular the fishing community.

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PERSONAL INVITATIONS from grandchildren can't be ignored so the Doyenne and I, and dogs too, hotfooted it down to grandson Fergus's fourth birthday celebration last Saturday. You forget how few children are needed to cause mayhem, and I hoped they would run out of steam before I did. A pious hope as it turned out!

THE GEESE are back – it's more than a fortnight since I saw the first of them down in the Lothians. But one skein passing over the house earlier this week particularly caught my attention.