Little basset sat on the veranda and howled as the new full moon rose into the sky. I half expected him to turn into a werewolf as he got increasingly agitated. There again he could just have been shouting for Abbie who has returned home today.  The sky is clear... 
Howling winds and driving rain have confined us to barracks today. Wellington is as wild and windy as I ever remember with reports of flooding in the city. If the long-range weather forecast is to believed this is just the start of what winter is going to be like... 
Dogs generally sleep for half the day and sometimes more. Fortnum and Mason fall into the more rather than less sleep category enjoying a snooze all day if they can. Certainly on my working at home days they do sleep or doze for as long as I’m at my desk... 
I knew it the moment we turned the corner into Maymourn that I should have brought my camera with me this morning. The mists were hanging in the valley shrouding the trees. Natures magic at work. Forgetting of course that I did have a camera – on my phone... For so many years our neighbours were people we waved at briefly whilst we scuttled from into the house. Nowadays we know our neighbours a little better and we tend to all look out for each other. It’s not a hot bed of neighbourly social events but rather a... 
