Hope it helps KT53 … a calm dog is a happy healthy and safer dog. Getting stressy and over-excited isn’t good for humans or dogs 😃
We hope so too Dove. Her brother has a 15 month old and has always refused to go to the house because the dog goes nuts. Not in the least aggressive, but several stone of dog versus a toddler is only likely to have one outcome.
@Ergates - I'm not quite at that age yet, but during all the dry weather, when kids were off school, there was a huge increase round here in the use of chalk drawing on pavements. Especially noticeable was the number of Hopscotch layouts.
I'm sure I don't need to go further ....
I hope you reported the mindless vandalism of scrawling chalk Fairygirl. Totally unacceptable.
I am joking, but there was a report in the summer of one council which did threaten parents with court action because of chalk markings for games.
You do sometimes wonder about the people in councils don't you? Personally, I loved seeing it. Nice for kids to be outside doing that instead of on a computer. What was particularly good was the fact that we had a lot of dry weather, so they weren't having to replace it every couple of days! Us Scots like to hang onto our pennies you know
I can only assume not many of them saw me though, because I had to go out much earlier because of the heat. I can just imagine the comments if they did see me!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
You do sometimes wonder about the people in councils don't you? Personally, I loved seeing it. Nice for kids to be outside doing that instead of on a computer. What was particularly good was the fact that we had a lot of dry weather, so they weren't having to replace it every couple of days! Us Scots like to hang onto our pennies you know
I can only assume not many of them saw me though, because I had to go out much earlier because of the heat. I can just imagine the comments if they did see me!
Did you ever badger your parents for an empty shoe polish tin to use ? We called the game " beds " in SW Scotland and the slidy thing was a "peever" ( although I've never seen it written down.)
It's what I wrote on my Dad's funeral flowers. He was always 'my Daddy' I couldn't explain it to my younger daughter earlier because I was welling up.
My Mum often talked about Peevers when we were little. I don't know if she used a shoe polish tin though. I'm not sure we played it either - I can't remember.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I used to hand feed Mrs Mallard when we first moved here. But she used to bring the whole family up and they started to be a nuisance, so she was only fed down at the lake
We played peever in the 50's and 60's using the sort of flat stone you would skim on water. Sliding it into the required bed was called scliffing, not to be confused with a skliff of orange
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We hope so too Dove. Her brother has a 15 month old and has always refused to go to the house because the dog goes nuts. Not in the least aggressive, but several stone of dog versus a toddler is only likely to have one outcome.
Personally, I loved seeing it. Nice for kids to be outside doing that instead of on a computer.
What was particularly good was the fact that we had a lot of dry weather, so they weren't having to replace it every couple of days! Us Scots like to hang onto our pennies you know
I can only assume not many of them saw me though, because I had to go out much earlier because of the heat. I can just imagine the comments if they did see me!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We called the game " beds " in SW Scotland and the slidy thing was a "peever" ( although I've never seen it written down.)
I couldn't explain it to my younger daughter earlier because I was welling up.
My Mum often talked about Peevers when we were little. I don't know if she used a shoe polish tin though. I'm not sure we played it either - I can't remember.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...