Apart from the ongoing house move saga, a new distraction has entered:
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| Kandy |
An emergency phone call at 6 a.m. four weeks ago saw us taking this beauty into our lives by 9 a.m. Unbelievably, she is a rescue case, despite being a pedigree standard poodle. We had actually just volunteered to take in one of fifteen, yes, fifteen, horribly treated adult poodles rescued from another "registered breeder." who was effectively a puppy farmer. We were incredibly lucky in that we were the first people the rescue team thought of to adopt her when she came in at the same time.
I could rant for some time at this point. Instead I'll just say Kandy has been an absolute joy to adopt. She is going to be big, and she is probably the cleverest of our five dogs. So it is going to be fun. So far she has been so easy to train. Recall, heel, sit, wait, down and have all been mastered before our first proper lesson with her. I know it won't last, teenage poodles are hard work!
The house move? Well things are happening, but we've been here so many times before.
I do wish the new house had a bigger garden.
As for indoor plans...I found a 4' x 2' baseboard I'd forgotten about, which is making me think of a few ideas. As usual with me I also like to model something relatively local, which, if the move happens, give me a lot of options
I would also have a large converted attic space, which is good, but limited access via a narrow hatchway, which is bad.
Options I'm considering:
A OOn3 version of my much missed OO9 Hales layout. Much scaled back from my thoughts had we purchased the last house we were considering
An O gauge East coast light railway. A cross between the North Sunderland and the W&UT. Possibly with a narrow gauge potato railway connection.
A small OO gauge shunting laying to make use of my growing collection of small industrial locos. With a NSR single track line in the background.
Revisiting my original Apa cameo on a slightly larger baseboard and in EM
A very generic OO GWR layout.
A classic OO9 rabbit warren
A TT120 or N bitsa station cameo of a rundown urban terminus.
Whilst that seems a long list, I don't think it is ambitious if I work out a project plan that maximises synergies between them. I already have most of the stock and the baseboards. The first and last on the list are probably least likely to happen
A TT120 or N bitsa station cameo of a rundown urban terminus.
Whilst that seems a long list, I don't think it is ambitious if I work out a project plan that maximises synergies between them. I already have most of the stock and the baseboards. The first and last on the list are probably least likely to happen
I learned to "dislike" dog breeders many years ago when working for MAFF. Every Crufts, we'd have breeders in the office throwing tantrums because they didn't like the rules for exporting dogs and didn't see why they should apply to them. Pointing out that if there wasn't the correct paperwork, the dog would be turned around on arrival and put back on the plane didn't cut any ice. These people didn't care about their animals one bit.
ReplyDeleteIt is so sad people many people trust breeders on the wrong basis, because they appear to be legit. We always insist on visiting the breeder and meeting the mother, and if the breeder is any good they will insist on checking on you as well. Wandering around Crufts, behind Issy, it is very clear there are two types of breeders. I've seen several famiiies have to face the devastating death of a pup that should never have been born.
ReplyDeleteEven in our circle, we have our concerns about a popular stud dog that seems to have some genetic issues that mean we can't breed from Gigi