In less than a month Odin has become a member of the Luxor Massive. Lassie, my next door neighbour's dog snarled, growled and woofed at Odin the other day and Harvey and Kayla came to his defense. Something similar happened today and Uncle Les told Lassie that Odin was part of the 'pack' and that she needed to accept him too. We do need to give Lassie some latitude as she is expecting ... and its hot and she is lovely and hopefully one of her puppies will be adopted by me and Odin!

Moving and Stuff

Hi

I have been very remiss of late on posting on my blog but I think i can be excused because i have moved house in the UK and then have emigrated to Egypt.

Its over 40degrees C constantly if not more.

My dog arrived on Monday 21 June and is slowly getting acclimatised. But saying that he got me up in the night every 2/3 hours.

I had to buy a new fridge/freezer as the old one did not really work! Then a TV. I also got the carpenter to do a mesh screen for the front door which keeps the dog in and the bugs out. It is not a good idea to led Odin out when the gardener has just soaked the garden as mutley is prone to walk in the mud, he is a labradour after all!

I also had to have the internet set up and to get a satellite receiver so i could watch my HD TV.

All i now need to do is stock my kitchen and i am done!

Home

This is where i will be moving eventually - it cannot not be too soon

I wonder why ... now I know!

We received to offers on the house that were exactly the same and on the advice of our estate agents we took this one. An investor who they had dealt with before and who wanted to be in mid-January.

Anyway we were meant to exchange on Monday, then Tuesday and after much toing and froing with our solicitor yelling at the other sides solicitors it is hopped for on Monday (01/02/10).

We wanted to complete asap to ensure that we kept our flat which is rather a find and at least by 12 February. But now (because of probate or something) the other side want to complete on 12 March!!! I wanted to be on the flight on 15 March with dogly in tow. I have hardly slept this week ... the only thing keeping me going is that move to Egypt!

This is my first blog - i've caught up with the latest technology.

Its been snowing on and off for two weeks. The weather people said we would have snow over the weekend and we didn't. I was hoping for fresh snow yesterday but we had none (boo hoo) but its been snowing since about 5.30 am. It goes from thick flakes to small drizzly snow.

I will have to make the most of this as it will by my last snow before moving ... The exact date is still up in the air a bit as it all depends on when Odin (dogly) my lovely but naughty labrador (who was 6 on 6 January) get his rabies blood test results which can take up to four weeks. I am counting the days but it looks like it will be early/mid March. In the words of the Pointer Sisters "I'm so excited!"