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panik ([personal profile] panik) wrote2006-05-01 10:17 am
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It's SO good to be home!

Oh, it so is! I spent the last week and a bit at my Mum and Dad's - mum's been quite ill; for a while there we thought we were going to lose her. She's still mostly in bed but is mostly on the mend, but we're still spending as much time over there as we can.

Now, my sister - who mostly lives with my parents - has a dog called Hamish, a half Norfolk, half... something - very sweet, but a rescue dog and the most neurotic creature to ever walk on 4 legs. At the moment, he's deeply in lust with Sally, a Springer, who lives down the road, is in heat and has been regularly slipping over to pee all over my parents(huge) garden - not a corner goes unmarked. This has been driving Hamish nuts (just when we'd more or less made up our minds Hamish was gay). He sits in the garden , tied up (because, if he's not, he immediately bolts), howling at the sky and setting every damn dog inside a 2 mile radius barking in sympathy. When he's not howling in the garden, he's howling, whimpering and crying in the house. ALL THE TIME And I do mean all the time. He NEVER stops except when sleeping (about 3 hours a night). He usually wakes us at dawn - about 4.20am - by leaping on the bed and crying till he's let out, when he commences the howling...

He's always been inclined to be a bit of a pain, but I've never seen him as bad as this and - sorry though I am to be leaving the family to cope - I have never been so glad to be home!!!

Happy May Day to everyone btw. Hope you're all - in the UK, anyway - enjoying a relaxing day. May your red flags fly high!
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[identity profile] snailbones.livejournal.com 2006-05-01 10:49 am (UTC)(link)
Happy May Day to you too!

Hi - I've meant to wave at you for ages, but I'm getting vague in my old age and keep forgetting. A lazy bank holiday Monday is the perfect time to catch up a bit... :~)

Hope it's ok I'm friending you... I lose people if I don't. ::see sorry tale of old age above::

Have a fun day... back to work tomorrow... Nooooooo!

Waves back!

[identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com 2006-05-01 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi!!!!
Hey, I'm always glad when someone friends me; I'm so very needy :G:
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[identity profile] aerianya.livejournal.com 2006-05-01 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Tell me about the Red Flags,please?
aeri wants to know stuff....

(Anonymous) 2006-05-01 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's May Day, of course! Great Socialist holiday of the International Proletariat (and that). (-:

[identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com 2006-05-01 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man!!! This logging out thing is a pain in the posterior! That was me, above. Sorry.
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[identity profile] aerianya.livejournal.com 2006-05-01 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
ah....okay.

[identity profile] arnie1967.livejournal.com 2006-05-01 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, Gilly, there's nothing worse than animals howling. How annoying - and not what your Mum needs. I hope your Mum keep on getting better, despite Hamish's howling.

Were your DVDs there when you got home? I really hope they were.

Happy May Day! And I second Aeri's request for information, please. :o)

[identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com 2006-05-01 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
May Day!!! Big Socialist day of celebration! Red flags flying! Come on folks!!!

[identity profile] angelvette67.livejournal.com 2006-05-01 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad your mum is doing better. And I sympathize about Hamish. My mixed breed, mostly pointer dog (Patch) doesn't howl, but he whines all day, which is quieter but just as annoying. He was neutered years ago, though he still doesn't accept that sad fact of life, and everytime my other dog, a lovely boxer bitch called Maggie is in heat I spend all my time keeping them separate, and consoling Patch, because otherwise he annoys Maggie so much she'll end up hurting him!