The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

silvasava

Oooh Floss - haven't heard the term mizzleing since my DM died.
Mar -swop you for some Edinburgh rock!
Always loved the contributions from Terry's old gits - found out recently that a friend of mine's husband pseudonym was Percy Veerance! Only ever read one book of TP's - did enjoy it but must look out some more of his.

Floss

Hester you've found the canal equivalent of dwarf bread then...

silvasava it often mizzles up here

nursemaggie

Yes silva mostly if it is not mizzling it is pouring down. We don't get many sunny days in this area.

mardatha

We've got an arctic front (apparently) and its to hit minus 4 tonight. Doing the hokey cokey with the second downie, its going on and off the bed like nobody'd business.

pollyanna_26

Apologies to any I may have offended re Sir Terry Wogan especially VJsMum . I was continuing the banter and only realised my sadly judged error when oil on troubled waters was mentioned .
Never let me do a dance marathon again!!! The grey cells are dodgy enough without shaking them up .

I also seem to have misread Burthas post about DD . I thought both daughter and dog had given birth . I thought she seemed remarkably calm!

Have done a lot of fleecing and placing of cloches and temperature is diving down . Stay warm all , I don't think we will go down as far as Mar , hope you get the downie balance sorted and get to sleep .

Have just had a marathon phone conversation with middle daughter so will say goodnight and head for bed .
polly x

burtha

Hi all, pollyanna dd thankfully is due early September , finds out on Wednesday what she is having .
3 puppies doing ok , may have to start feeding one of them as he's a bit thin , but at the moment he's doing ok , keeps moving away from the other 2 which means he runs the risk of getting squashed ... so 2 hrs feeds may be needed soon .. any volunteers lol
Feel at bit like I have been on a never ending treadmill this weekend , club,home,kids,dogs then repeat with a few hours sleep in between , back to the day job tomorrow so kids in charge of pups till I get back ..
Hope it doesn't get to cold tonight .
Have lost were the elephant is but if he's free and can hold a very small bottle send him this way please ...
X

candygirl

BURTHA, if it's any consolation when my late lab had pups may years ago, there was one tiny boy who we didn't think would survive.I bottle fed him every few hours, and he thrived, n is now bigger than a lot of the others
What breed are they, no dya have pics?

burtha

Cocker spaniels , hopefully we won't have to feed but we have done it many times over the years , one year we had 2 litters within 2 days of each other , springers and labs, the springer had 16 the lab had 8 , it was a mad house , at one point when they were about 4 weeks old we came in to the dogs everywhere ,they had knocked out the panels separating them so puppies feeding of anyone that was lieing down didn't matter if if was there mum or not ... Most of both of those litters were bottle fed to top them up . Remember well catching pups one by one and feeding them ,took over a hour each time then repeated every 2 hours ... Long nights ,but good fun

ivyleaf

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Actually.... Tel did write some wonderful books, not as many as STP, and most of them are collections of articles, but still, he was a good writer. Very good. Decidedly Flann O'Brien.
A Slip of the Keyboard is STP's collection and very good it is too.
I loved Tel's TV series with the lovely London cabbie, Mason McQueen, I recorded the whole lot the last time they were on.

Thank you - I knew he'd written one called Banjaxed but didn't know about the others.

Pollyanna No worries, I realised it was banter and the water on troubled waters was a bit tongue-in-cheek

mcculloch29

My daughter's older Springer was the runt of the litter.
I told DD and partner to ignore the alpha puppy and the runt of the 10 pup litter, but my grand daughter picked the runt up and dropped her, so they then felt obliged to take her!

They took her at just six weeks old and she wasn't really thriving. She is now 10 and significantly larger than some of her littermates that are still in the area.

The second Springer was the Alpha puppy of a three pup litter, as fat as butter. However as an adult he is tiny, the smallest male Springer I have ever seen. Cute, and very intelligent, though if he was a human he would be the class clown.
He loves his "big sister" very much. She is quite fond of him.