A Dandie Dinmont who doesn't like the Hovercraft

Now this one is hard to explain in words - but you would roar with laughter if you could see what I am seeing! Maxxi Jazz is visiting. As we are drying up after a flood, men have been and installed air movers - noisy but essential. One of these air movers is drying out under the flooring which is lifting up a foot in the air in parts and just an inch or so in other areas.

Dear Maxxi Jazz, after just a few minutes of this new experience, has worked out that if he stands on one of the 'high' parts, the air redistributes and the floor goes down.

He is now silently, efficiently and dutifully, walking round the floor, covering all the area bit by bit, trying to put the flooring back where it should be - flat to the ground! ...and what's more he is sitting in various areas to make sure it stays that way - until he spots somewhere else he should be working on.

Remember, he is the Dandie Dinmont that worked out how to work Skype! Bless him!

Routines Dandie Dinmonts make their own...

Sister Bliss has developed a routine. It is a morning routine. She doesn't get up with the rest of us. She lies in bed (well it is winter!), in the patch of warmth I left her. Maybe an hour later she appears on the stairs which lead to the main room. She peeps through the bars of the stairs and squeaks. She has decided herself that she can't come down until she is 'invited'. She then expects me to say 'Good Morning Bliss' and then expects the outside door to be opened for her. But it doesn't end there - still she sits on the stairs - I then have to say 'Whoosh!' in an encouraging, enthusiastic manner and only then does she start her day as all dogs should - with a puddle outside :)