First, more news about Boola. After my last post, Boola has been enjoying his new certificate (now framed and up on his brag wall in the downstairs loo) and his smart rosette. Over the weekend, I got an email from the tutor inviting us to come along and do the Silver award before Christmas with a small class of other dogs. It was a lovely suprise and apart from the fact I'll miss one week while we are away, is really something to look forward to doing. I'll write more about this as it unfolds. One of the nice things the tutor said is that Boola is a wonderful ambassador for greyhounds and the tutor particularly wanted him to be seen/met by a number of people so they can get used to retired greyhounds doing these types of activities.
Andrew reached 40 just after my last post. On the Saturday night we went out to a lovely Cardiff restaurant, called Bully's (where we went for my birthday, too). As before we had a wonderful time, superb wine, delicious food, excellent service - I really can't recommend it enough. Click here to visit their website. Not surprisingly, it is currently the highest scored Cardiff restaurant on Toptable (which we usually use for booking).
For the weekend just gone, we invited Andrew's parents over to stay, and his sister, her husband and three boys came over on the Sunday for a great squirrel themed feast (in honour of the shared birthday for Andrew and Booty). We had a very nice time with Andrew's parents, and Andrew cooked a delicious game pie - I was brave and did some goats cheese souffles which were delicious (followed a reliable Delia recipe). On the Sunday, there were 9 of us round the table (the most we've sat in one go) and we had a very nice meal. Home made sweet potato and chestnut soup with home made bread rolls to start. For mains, a big tray of roasted chicken portions, along with plenty of coleslaw and roasted cherry tomatoes. As well, a big dish of chickpea and spinach crumble. To finish, everyone (including woofs) had a piece of birthday cake (luridly iced by Andrew and with a squirrel topper) - some pics attached of cake eating! Also the home made place cards and a nice shot of Boola relaxing with his "grandparents". In the background in this picture, you can see the latest quilt I made, over the back of the sofa. Booty wore a special pink rosette in honour of the day and thoroughly enjoyed herself.
For the weekend just gone, we invited Andrew's parents over to stay, and his sister, her husband and three boys came over on the Sunday for a great squirrel themed feast (in honour of the shared birthday for Andrew and Booty). We had a very nice time with Andrew's parents, and Andrew cooked a delicious game pie - I was brave and did some goats cheese souffles which were delicious (followed a reliable Delia recipe). On the Sunday, there were 9 of us round the table (the most we've sat in one go) and we had a very nice meal. Home made sweet potato and chestnut soup with home made bread rolls to start. For mains, a big tray of roasted chicken portions, along with plenty of coleslaw and roasted cherry tomatoes. As well, a big dish of chickpea and spinach crumble. To finish, everyone (including woofs) had a piece of birthday cake (luridly iced by Andrew and with a squirrel topper) - some pics attached of cake eating! Also the home made place cards and a nice shot of Boola relaxing with his "grandparents". In the background in this picture, you can see the latest quilt I made, over the back of the sofa. Booty wore a special pink rosette in honour of the day and thoroughly enjoyed herself.
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