Mac at Norik beach
Posted: Friday, 30 March 2007 |
I've had my old dog staying with me for a few days. (In case you are confused, Mac used to be mine, then he bacame Herman's, and now he belongs to Muness. And just to thoroughly blur the issue, Damadcoo occasionally borrows him.)
Anyway, he is a lovely dog, although sometimes he lets himself down in the personal hygiene department. As the word 'bath' is an evil one to Mac's ears, the solution to this dilemma is a dip in the sea which he loves. Here's a few pics of his favourite sport entitled 'What Else Is There In Life Apart From A Ball.'
Anyway, he is a lovely dog, although sometimes he lets himself down in the personal hygiene department. As the word 'bath' is an evil one to Mac's ears, the solution to this dilemma is a dip in the sea which he loves. Here's a few pics of his favourite sport entitled 'What Else Is There In Life Apart From A Ball.'
Comments
At last - something worth seeing on dy blog!
Herman from Fetlar
What a wonderful dog. I miss him. He's a real bloggers dog. There can't be any other dog with 3 or 4 blog owners.
Herman from Cyberspace
It's a kind of four-legged computer isn't it?
Flying Cat from a high bookshelf
hi mac,water not too cold? what is news with the cat?
carol from withgarfield grin
Very nice.
mjc from NM,USA
That cannae be Norik beach, cos dat looks lik ma bitch sweemin aff da Sands O' Soond!!
An Incomer from Da Sooth Mooth
Now this is the type of blog that one can sit back and admire. Much better than jumping on Bandwagons, leave that to the politicians, Ruthodanort, well done, a gold star for you today..
Tws from Dogblogcentral
TWS and Carol, good news! I have succesfully re-homed chibley the cat, at friends o mine in Trondra. He is very happy there, altho Muness wasn't so chuffed at havin a cat in his car the whole way doon to the central belt fae Unst. But he coped admirably. (Muness AND the cat.)
Ruthodanort from Unst
I'm not sure who I feel sorry for most MV or the C*t.
Tws from The Croft Lewis
Sands of Sound? You must be kidding. Looks very much like a strip of Shatt al Arab waterway. Mac goes any further and he'll be on tv 'fessing up in strangely formulated English, bordering on Iranian.
mjc from NM,USA
Oh well done Carol...it's a hiMac right enough. Glad to hear about Chib's relocation relocation relocation. And not a Kirsty or a Phil in sight....
Flying Cat from supine in front of the telly
Looks like the Shatt al Arab mjc? Probably looks like the Gulf too (St. Laurence/Mexico/Persian take your pick.) isn't that part of the problem? It's hard to draw lines on water and if you succeed the next wind or tide changes them. tell you what though that's an impressive bow wave.
Hyper-Borean from Ibn Battuta's tent
that dog - that dog certainly did let himself down in the hygiene dept - do you remember what he left on my door mat - IT WAS NOT HYGIENIC!
scallowawife from indignant
The solution to water lines is of course to claim the whole body of water to the other shore. That in fact is what Kentucky has done to the Ohio. When my wife told me that KY. claims the river all the way to the Indiana shore, I was willing to lead a (well-armed) militia across a bridge (not too far!) to teach those yokels (pot calling the kettle black?) a lesson (who knows, they may have WMD hiding under the Derby paddocks!). Reason prevailed after my wife noted pointedly that I was not yet a Hoosier, and that mercenaries are not well looked upon in squirrel and coon hunting country.
mjc from NM,USA
Have you read Tim Mackintosh-Smith's Travels with a Tangerine yet? Retraces Ibn-Battuta's travels. Tim M-S's book on Yemen is simply wonderful, one of the best "travel" books I have ever read. Worth getting hold of one, Hyper-B, (and other readers dabbling in IB).
mjc from NM,USA
Thanks mjc. No I haven't read Tim M-S's books but for some reason his name is familiar to me. Ibn Battuta I have read in parts from anthologies. I went thhrough a Thesiger phase many years ago but have just finished Alan Villiers"s, recently reprinted, The Sons of Sindbad an account of a trading voyage by dhow from Arabia to East Africa in the years just before . I am currently reading A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani all good for giving context to our present troubles.
Hyper-Borean from The library
Pity the pollyticians don't read historical stuff and tak tent. See those Iraqi borders? See 'protectorates'? See post-colonial muddles? See me? Ah'm fair scunnered wi' the lot o' yese!
Flying Cat from getting the soapbox out of the attic
The era of Thesiger, Rose Macaulay, Freya Stark - gone for ever. Envy of those folks and times is not productive. We have to move with the times, like those camels riding in the back of heavy duty Dodge ram trucks in the Arabian desert ...
mjc from NM,USA
There is a difference between nostalgia and envy of times past mjc. Thesiger, and TE Lawrence, stirred the Boy's Own Paper element in me. I've grown up a bit since then. I would still like to be a true traveller and meet with the real peoples of this world. I know that things have changed since most of my favourite travel books were written but there remains a basic humanity which fascinates me. One of my favourite memories is of discussing the previous Iran Hostage crisis with an old man on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu. He had never been out of his native isle but was able to talk about the woes of Jimmy Carter and the impending problems we both foresaw in the Reagan presidency The funny part was later that day when I spoke with an apparently sophisticated french woman who believed that the further one went from the equator in either direction the further north one would be. She was adamant that we could not be 17潞 south!
Hyper-Borean from The Blue Remembered Hills
Pair sowel she was French, you have to make allowances. I bet she didn't look like a coo's behind tho'. (uchiha-sonic blog)
Flying Cat from a balanced view
Hyper-B.: she was French, so what further explanation do you need? About the US embassy hostages: poor Jimmy got too personally involved, and he aged tremendously on the job. A very good man, but an awfully weak President.
mjc from NM,USA
I met Wilfred Thesiger in Salalah, in I think 1978, he was getting on, but the Arabs that turned up were a sight to behold, even after many years he was still well respected by these travelers of the sands.
Lerwick Trevor from Lerwick
See how a really good name-drop can stop a blog in its tracks? And I had been going to make a facetious remark about poor ole Jimmy C ageing tremendously on the job. S'not worth it now...
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
Well Mac is coming home today (admittedly he's actually going to visit his new hooseas well), but he's going to be back - shedding hairs all over my kitchen. How I've missed the mess.
Muness from Fetlar
Blogs fae a thirty-something mum of 4 born in Fife, brought up in Orkney, and living in Unst.
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