Saturday Shave!

Hi Ho Woofers!

It's Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret again!

You know, we expected it to be a little warmer today but when we went out this morning to wind was blowing and the temperature felt like twenty below!

Holly was worried in case Old Two Legs was planning to shave us today. You see, we have been watching him charge up both batteries in the electric shaver!

He can't be still thinking of a shampoo and shave, can he?

 It was good to get into the woods 'cos that added some protection against the wind and it gave us a chance to see how much the plants had grown over the last few days!

Any more and we could call it a jungle!

Just for a change we spotted a 'Wormy Man' in the mud but he didn't look like he was catching many worms!

Here Wormy Wormy! Come to Daddy!

Back home The Missus had gone up the village hall for some glue slapping so we could enjoy a snooze on the bed while OTL got busy with the ferret cage job!

Miss May was a little wobbly this morning but that didn't slow her down and as soon as Convalescence Powder hit the floor she was straight in up to her ears!

I think that is a success for OTL and it's doing her good!

Lunchtime the weather was just the same and so far, no wash and shaves!

Coming up the Thames we spotted a three mast sailing ship in the mist.

It was obviously using and engine to get her up river especially as the tide was going out!

Maybe it's a Pirate Ship heading up into London on a raid?

 OTL was pointing out the new leaves that were bursting out of the buds and that had been just over night!

Don't look too bad, wonder what it will be like tomorrow?

 We met up with the lads and while the Two Legs were discussing how to confuse a woodpecker we managed to have a chat about the woolly jumpers Yappy and his mate had on.

Holly says that out coats were good and windproof but they didn't go far enough down yer back!

Yeah, but with my hair being nice and thick the wind doesn't get all the way through!

 Now Holly had a roll in something that OTL thought was a bit suspect and not long after getting back home she was put in the shower and with OTL kneeling there with the shampoo in his paws!

Holly got washed from nose to tail, then rinsed with the shower from tail to nose and back again!

Once that was done she got dried off using the doggy towels but OTL didn't get out the blaster!

Instead, he dried Holly off leaving her just a little damp all over. She was taken into the kitchen and with OTL on his knees, she got shaved around her face and then under her tail!

Well, she won't get messy when she has a poo and TM can see holly's eyes!

Mind you, OTL says that if the weather gets any better, the rest of Holly will get the shaver!

The only thing about that is..............I will be next!

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret.

Speedy Miss May!

Hi Woofers!

We're back again, Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret!

Have we had a lucky escape today!

Old Two Legs was planning on giving Holly and I a wash 'n' dry and hair cut!

When we were out first thing this morning it was rather dark and foreboding plus the wind was whipping through the trees making even OTL shiver in his big warm jacket!

When the wind blows off the Medway or The Thames it can get right chilly!

We were grumbling at the thought of wash and especially the 'Blaster' that blows all the water off and freezes the bits that shouldn't be frozen!

We didn't hang about waiting while he took this one, too blooming cold!

After our walk we headed back to the car, only to be met by some of the lads who were just starting their walk!

Careful as you go around the corner lads, the wind will blow yer bits off!

Back home OTL was cleaning the cages when he got a call on the telephone from one of his customers. Seems they we having problems and needed OTL to call on them and get things 'Sorted'!

Now, this sounded like an opportunity for us!

OTL was chatting away and we heard him say that he would call on them 'This Afternoon'!

Yay! That was just super, no time for a wash and splosh!

The customer is the local Priory and that means OTL has to be on his best behaviour when he goes in there!

Well, by the time he got back it was almost evening and of course Holly and I were safe!

Tomorrow The Missus is off to the village hall so, if OTL gets all his jobs done PDQ then he may have time to do Holly and I.

Mmmm! I think that tomorrow we will have be a little mischievous and with a bit of luck get out of the 'Wash 'n' Splosh!

Let's face it, we don't want to end up like Archie Babe, bald and frozen!

Miss May is on her second day of her Convalescence Powder and to be honest, she was dashing around yesterday and this morning she was darting about like a rat up a drainpipe!

That Convalescence Powder seems to be doing her some good, three helpings a day seems to be doing her some good! Claws crossed she keeps in this good mood!

Hey, we didn't tell you about Bertie did we? Now, we haven't got the full story, but, there was this Doodle Dog who's Two Legs couldn't look after him for one reason or other and were looking to 'Re-Home' him.

So, being a very lucky woofer, he met up with Lawrence and Pat, (Pat is one of the glue slappers up the hall!)

Well, talk about fall on ya paws! Bertie Babe has settled down to a very happy life! He gets fed and watered and to repay the kindness, he is permanently on guard duty!

Bertie has spotted the 'Lesser Spotted Baggy Butt Postman' and gives him a seriously good woofing every day!

Who needs curtains when I'm on guard duty?

 It's good to hear a happy tale like wot that that is, unlike the terrible thing that is going to happen to Holly and I.........................Wash, Splosh and Shaved!

Life can be so cruel to little woofers like wot we iz!

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret!

It's Monty's Birthday today!

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret back again!

Well, today it has been brighter but it was still cold this morning, I'll be glad when summer gets started proper!

It may be sunny but the frost had only just melted!

 One good thing was the Daffy Dilly's were all getting their flowers and waving gently in the breeze!

Trouble is, they are only down one side of the path!

 We still can't make out what these things are but whatever they are, they are growing all over the place! These are the patch we saw the other day, they are looking like they want to burst into something but we are not sure if it is a bloom or fungi head!

No, we still don't know what they are!

 Lunchtime it was warmer but not warm enough to leave Old Two Legs hat behind and to be honest, we didn't see too much that was interesting.

OTL was trying to get some action shots of the birdies that were diving in and out of the trees. As the leaves had not got all their leaves yet, it was easy for the birds to see us and and by the time OTL whips his camera up, they had flown!

OK, it's a Wood Pigeon escaping!

His attention was taken by a couple of insects, one is a bee but we are not sure what it is yet as we haven't looked him up in the Book of Bees and the other looks like a weird Solder Beetle but it is too early for them, so that's another we have got to look up!

It could be one of the Solitary Bees?

This one is seriously weird!

Now, the best thing about today is that it is Monty's Birthday! He is a whole year old today and Monty, being Monty, had a wonderful game with Miss Wendy this morning chasing each other all over the house!

He is a different Monty to the Monty that first turned up here all scared and afraid of everything. He was being picked on by the others and even had to sleep on his own out in the cage instead of sleeping with all the others. It took a little while for him to settle down with Wendy 'cos she was a little scared of other ferrets as well, but, now they couldn't be happier together!

So, all together, after three........6, 97, 3!

Happy Birthday Monty Chops
He loves games in a box,
Does Poo's on paper squares
an' wee's on the stairs!

Monty is good at poo'n on the paper Old Two Legs puts down in the mornings when the ferrets come out for a rampage. All the other ferrets sort of poo around the paper instead of on it!

Miss May has had two helpings of the Convalescence Powder that arrived yesterday. She slurped down the first bowl full this morning but didn't finish it, we think that OTL put too much powder in the bowl and mixed it with Lactose Free milk. She lapped up half of it and Eric helped her finish off the rest!

This lunch time OTL mixed up some more but this time it was a 'Level Teaspoon' and Milk and she finished off the bowl down to the last lick!

OTL says he is going to give her another helping tonight before bed, she certainly is a bit livelier today, we are not sure if it is the Convalescence Powder, the milk or the lump of raw beef or even the cooked beef!

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret.

Sun, Rain, Snow and Cold!

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret back with you again!

You know I thought that Summer Time was supposed be full of warm winds and sunshine.

Not today, today it has been all of the seasons in one hit! There has been snow, (up North) and down here it is rain and then there was the sun that was fighting a loosing battle 'cos it was windy as well!

Not that inspiring is it?

It was so uninspiring that this morning we even left the camera in the car!

Come lunchtime it was a little better, not much, but just a little!

The woods are getting greener and the rabbits have got places to hide!

 The wind had blown a lot of the clouds away and the sun came out but the wind kept the temperature down, I think it's called 'Wind Chill'.

I call it cold!

OK, how long before the wind goes away?

 Once we got back into the forest we saw the new leaves bursting out of the buds. It's fun trying to guess the name of the tree!

Could it be a conker tree?

 Back home Old Two Legs was working on some stuff that has to be shipped tomorrow.

It's all go for our little 'Entrepreneur'!

Let's hope tomorrow is warmer!

Bye for now.

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret.

Lazy OTL!

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret here!

You know how super efficient our Old Two Legs is? I mean, up at crack of dawn, rushing around cleaning and generally getting everyone sorted out ready for the day ahead?

Not today, OTL was a whole hour late in getting up this morning 'cos he had a bad night, indigestion, and his night was rather disturbed with hunting around for some tablets which he couldn't find so it was back to a few mouth fulls of milk and a grumble about The Missuses cooking.

Only TM didn't do any cooking last night and if she did. just what damage can she do with a pork pie salad?

Answers on a post card!

We didn't reckon on the weather and it looked like rain was going to chase us all the way home!

I think that is called a  'Squall'!

Back home TM was cooking our chicken so Holly and I kept guard at the kitchen door to make sure she doesn't burn it like wot she does to OTL's dinner.

I mean, how many people cook a salad?

Lunchtime it was a little better but not warm enough to bring the ferrets with us, so, they stayed at home snoozing!

It was interesting to see just how the undergrowth had sprouted up since we last photographed it!

Just wait until the leaves come out on the trees!

 Mind you, the undergrowth is full of sniffs!

Well, I think it may be a fox!

 Being we got up so late we came across a woofer we have seen a couple of time ago. He was out on his own and Holly wanted to rush down woofing at him as a joke!

Come on, let's give him a good woofin'!

Before we could do that, his mate came along behind and whispered in Holly's ear, 'I'm bigger than you'!

So we didn't do any woofing!

Now, your not going to woof at my mate are you?

We left them to it and headed off towards the car park. The plants are growing but we thing that the council will come along with their grass cutters and chop this lot down, like they did last year!

Holly was sniffing around and came across these plant looking things that I reckon look like fungi!

We shall keep an eye on these as we walk past every day and with a bit of luck we won't have them chopped down before we find out what they are!

Strange looking things!

 One of the problem when they cut the grass and plants is that the insects have no where to breed and play when the sun shine comes out.

Holly and I are on guard duty again tonight so, if OTL gets up again we will be able to escort him to the fridge for another slurp of milk!

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret!

Summer?

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret here again!

Well, Summer may have come but it's still both windy and cold!

Old Two Legs was going to give us a hair cut today but even he decided that he wouldn't be so cruel as to leave us all bald and chilly just yet!

We were up early and managed to get down to the sea shore just in time to catch the sun climbing over the horizon.

Well, OK, climbing over the hill!

Peek a Boo!

 By the time we had chased a couple of rabbits back down their hole the sun had climbed a little more!

OK, not the best but we haven't seen it like this for some time!

Being the first of the month OTL has been busy with the computer and catching up with the invoicing.

Lunchtime it got a bit brighter but was still as cold 'cos the wind was blowing in off the sea. May and Eric spent some time in the ferret bag but May enjoyed her run across the football field both on the way out and on the way back!

Eric, on the other paw was quite happy to stay in the bag with just his nose poking over the top of the bag!

This afternoon we enjoyed a snooze on our beds, letting OTL carry on with with his work!

Dunno what is for dinner tonight but we hope it is muggable!

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret!

First Day of Summer!

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret here!

Well, let's all jump for joy! The Summer has arrived with a raspberry!

As a special treat for Old Two Legs, we woke him up a whole hour sooner than normal but actually it was the right time but just an hour earlier!

I can sympathise with OTL, I think all this fiddling about with the clocks is all wrong, they should leave it all set for GMT all year long and if you want to get up earlier to milk the cows, the get up earlier and leave up Town Woofers to sleep!

Us woofers have decided that we don't like being fiddled with!

Take this morning, up we get and OTL was up and wandering about in the dark looking for the camera 'cos he reckons there could be a sunrise worthy of photographing but when we got down to the sea shore what did we get?

North Wind and waves crashing onto the mud!

Well, so much for the Summer Sunrise, more like the morning foggy foggy dew!

Even when we turned towards the fort it didn't get any better, it looked right miserable!

The river flows from right to left but the wind is blowing it from left to right!

 That was it, we didn't hang around too long, the wind was getting right up Holly's tail so she decided to get back to the car at double quick time!

Lunchtime wasn't much better, it was lighter but equally as cold and windy. We walked through the trees looking for anything interesting but all the birds were hiding in amongst the bushes and ivy.

I'll be glad when the sun comes back!

 Looking back out to sea the weather had not changed a bit, it was still blowing from the north and there were more whit horses on the sea.

I think to best place is back on our bed snoozing the afternoon away!

Now, you know that Miss May has Insulinoma, well, it has made her loos a bit of weight and she is all skin and bone. The medicine that the vet prescribed has made her put on a bit of weight but OTL plans to fatten her up and has purchased some Convalescence Poweder that you mix with a drop of Lactose Free Milk until it is all creamy. Now, this stuff is supposed to help fatten her up a bit and OTL has been told that all ferrets just love the stuff!

With a bit of luck it should arrive on Monday and then we will see if Miss May slurps it all down as she is supposed to. It will be good to hide her crushed tablet in as well, once we have found out if she likes the stuff!

If she doesn't like it you can bet your tail that Eric will eat it all!

Today Eric has managed to pinch three of the 'Smoothies' that The Missus had hidden on her desk. TM managed to rescue one smoothie but the other two have gone!

I suppose we will have to start looking under all the furniture for the stolen goods!

See you tomorrow.

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret.

Last day of Spring!

Hello Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret here on what is the Last Day of Spring!

Yep! Tomorrow when we wake up in will be an whole hour earlier and it will be officially Summer Time!

As it's an hour earlier Old Two Legs reckons there will be a good chance of a sunrise instead of the view we have today!

Not the best we've seen!

 Mind you, without the sun and just the morning mist to play with we got this moody shot!

Yeah! This ones for Archie Babe!

 Going through the wooded bit we could see the ground plants have put a bit of a spurt on and are getting their blossom out before the trees block out all the Light!

Who knows what insects will be here this year?

 Climbing up out of the woods and up to where the rabbits normally are, we found nothing, not even a birdie flapping about. They must have heard OTL calling us and it was him that scared them off this time and not us!

Not our fault this time, it was OTL wot dun it!

 Heading back towards the car park OTL spotted a small bird right up the top of a tree and using the maximum lens setting he snapped this robin wot was telling any other birdy's to stay away from his tree!

Clear Orf you lot, this is MY TREE!

 Lunchtime it was Wendy and Monty who came out with us and the sun was shining and it was super warm as well.

We saw the biggest fly basking in the sunshine and it had a sort of burnished bronze colour on it's back. Can't say I've seen that one before!

We'll have to keep an eye open for this again!

This afternoon we watched the F1 Racing Qualifying and judging by the results, we are expecting a good race tomorrow!

We're off to see what's for dinner, Doggy Scoff I think, still, there is always OTL's dinner to try for!

Bye for now!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret.

We have been pigging out today!

Hi Woofers!

Here we are again, Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret!

Wot a sunny day it has been, except of course first thing this morning when there was ice on the windscreen and on the leaves of the low down weeds!

We were a little early in getting out and Old Two Legs remembered to bring the camera with him and he snapped off a view over the marshlands and over to the east where the sun had just got up!

A bit of Ground Mist!

 As we walked around OTL just had to take a photo of the Daffy Dillies. He took another that was a close up of the bloom but we preferred the 'Two Bloom' shot!

Two blooms is better than one!

 Another thing we spotted was the crow gathering sticks to build the nest with. Mind you, it's a good job Holly and I don't bother with all that nest building, we got our beds already made up for snoozing!

It's a busy time for the birdies!

 Lunchtime it was just great in the sunshine and today May and Eric came out with us. May was the most energetic and she was running all over the place.

We still had to wait for them 'cos our legs are longer than ferret legs. Mind you, Eric did manage to get a lift in the ferret bag!

Do you think if we gave them a woof they might hurry up?

 Back on the football fields Holly and I were doing our broad sweep looking for sniffs and May and Eric decided they would try to creep up on us!

No chance! But it was fun watching them try, just before we ran off to the car!

OK, you go left and I'll go right and we'll get them!

Saturday tomorrow and the clocks go forward an hour between Saturday and Sunday!

We prefer it when the clocks go back 'cos it feels like we are gaining an hour but this going forward means we have lost an hour and we don't like loosing time!

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret!

The weekend is a coming!

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret here!

We love Thursday 'cos it is so close to Friday which is the beginning of the weekend! The weekend means TV watching and paws up on the sofa and generally enjoying ourselves.

That is if The Missus is going to see her mates up at the village hall!

This mornings walk was boring 'cos the sun had been up for ages and it was so overcast that Old Two Legs didn't even take his camera with him!

Lunchtime was better as Miss Wendy and Monty came out with us. They haven't been out for a little while and it made a pleasant change to get them out in the fresh air.

One good thing is that they walk a lot quicker than Eric!

Being that they are both on leads they have to go over the same sniffs, unlike Holly and I, we can go and find our own sniffs and then decide if we want to share!

Hey, look, two sniffy slugs!

 It's fun sometime just to listen to them discussing sniffs!

OK, interesting sniff but I wouldn't eat it!

 Now, us woofers like to leave our 'Calling Card' so other woofers know we have been there but the ferrets don't do that. Mainly 'cos there are no wild ferrets around here, just weasels!

Oh No! Your not going to do a wee on the sniff?

 That's what it was like all the way back to the car! Wendy had to get a carry 'cos she said that she was a little exhausted as she hasn't been out and was a little unfit!

As they are on separate leads they can wander from side to side of the path which means that OTL is forever stepping over their leads and it looks like he is dancing!

That's the last time I tell you about the sniff!

There was some new piles of earth shoved up into Mole Hills and both Wendy and Monty had a good dig and snuffle through it all!

Of course, there were no moles there and OTL says that they might be miles away hiding down the other end of the field!

Still, we gave it a good sniff and the ferrets did their digging and finally, just to show we were there, Holly did a wee on the hill!

Miss May was a bit put out being left behind but spent the afternoon rampaging around her cage and waking Eric up by jumping on top of him!

All this running around, May caught her claw in the bedding so that caused OTL to help her unhook her claw and then he rolled her on her back, put the bottle of Ferretone across her tummy and while she was slurping away, OTL clipped her claws with his nail clippers!

TL says he is going to try the Moth Trap he got for Christmas. The weather is warmish and there have been signs of insects buzzing around, so, who knows, there might just be a moth or two!

He's going to get his camera and macro lens set up ready for tomorrow!

See you tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Eric de Ferret and Monty de Ferret.