Malbridge House

To catchup with everything, I’m probably going to have to do a couple of posts, so much has been going on.

Thursday was our 13th wedding anniversary, true to their word the children got up at 5am, washed up and swept through, hung up their home made decorations and bought us up tea and toast for 5-50am, just before Malc usually gets up. So we ate and drank and opened presents and cards with bleary eyes!

Malc went to work and we pottered around for a bit, went to pick up my Mum and went to our favourite garden centre and picked out a rose as a present from her. It’s called "Wildfire" and it’s beautiful.

When I got back these had arrived for me.

Thursday evening Mum babysat for us and Malc and I went to a carvery for a lovely meal.

Friday Malc only works in the morning so I packed all our clothes for a weekend away in our caravan.

We went to a lovely site, the owners were smashing, we set up and played Swingball, took the dogs for a walk along the dirt path that runs alongside the campsite and found this, our dream house.

It was set in loads of lawn and at the bottom of the garden was a lovely pond absolutely covered with lillies.

Eden fell in love with it and whenever we walked the dogs we had to go this way so that she could look at the pond again.

On Saturday we walked for 5 hours in Ringwood Forest, back to Verwood and had a look around a couple of shops, we had lovely weather

We were all exhausted when we got back, had tea and a few games of cards and we were all asleep by 8-30pm. Not before laughing at the poor people in the tents in the field above us standing round their bar-b-que with umbrellas over it so it wouldn’t go out!! We’ve been there, in the days before the caravan. Of course we took the flats with us.

Bit of a reflection in that one!

Packed up on Sunday morning and came home.

My children don’t play ball in the garden, if the ball goes over next door we don’t get it back, the children smuggled the ball out of the caravan and whilst I was unpacking they were playing ball in the garden and sure enough it went over. Later Eden saw the man next door and asked politely if we could have our ball back and was told "to go forth and multiply" only not so politely. I called the police and they came out 32 hours later, the neighbour has denied it all, luckily I took a picture of the ball over in their garden because they denied having it until the police told them we’ve got a picture of it.

I can’t believe it’s resorted to this, I’ve told the children any balls over there again and it’s lost, so all balls are banned from the house, which is sad but necessary .

Malc had Monday off so we pottered around in the garden and did a few jobs around the house.

Callum and I took the dogs over the field in the evening which ended in chaos because Burley turned on a Spaniel and had him by the neck, he’s done this before but to Rimini and Ellie, my sisters dog , not really outside, he’s broken two collars where he’s tried to pull so hard to get to another dog, the bloke was quite angry and rightly so, I offered to pay any vets bills, but none have been forthcoming as yet.

On Tuesday morning Tula and Burley were booked in to be spayed and neutered, but after talkng to the vet we made the decision to have Burley put to sleep. He just seemed to flip if he saw another dog and as he was only 8 months old and doing this we didn’t want to know how strong he’d be when he was older doing it, we did discuss rehoming, but I really couldn’t pass him on knowing what he was like.

The vet was lovely and although we made the decision he said afterwards that he agreed with us, sometimes you get dogs like this.

So Tula was spayed and Burley is no longer with us.

On Wednesday morning,  my Mum had already made an appointment at the vets for her 2 fifteen year old dogs, Windsor, a Golden Retriever and Gemma , a Border Collie, they were both getting old and we feared the worst, and that’s what the vet suggested. Eden went with Mum because I couldn’t go with her with all  the children and Mum said she was brilliant, really helpful and strong and supportive.

So that takes us to Wednesday, tomorrow I might continue with the tales of our eventful week, I’ll see what I feel like.