Learning a new language!

Hello Woofers!

Here we are again, Daisy and Eric de Ferret.

You know, every day you learn a little more than you did yesterday.

Eric and I have been watching Old Two Legs installing the new computer. What he did was to get his Computer Man to clone the old hard disc, then up load it into a reconditioned high end desk top computer.

As soon as he did that, the Windows system booted up and downloaded loads of updates and stuff he had never seen before!

He has spent most of today trying to hone it to his requirements.

With all these updates it seems you can't just pick a bit out that you don't want and install bits you do want.

It's at that point he starts talking to the computer. It starts off with 'You Stupid Computer' and then sort of gathers speed and volume as well as the words get longer and invariably gather more meaning!

Couple that with talking to the Bank Help Line who took over an hour to answer the telephone and when they finally picked up the phone, told OTL, he had to go to the local branch (12 miles away), put the card in the machine and unblock the credit card!

So, as we approach evening time, he has returned from the bank, after having a race down the high street with a Traffic Warden and managing to get to the car before the nice man stuck a parking ticket on his screen!

The computer, at the moment, is being described in a Croatian farm dialect, mixed with Chinese military speak! 

You do learn a lot in this household!

It started this morning with the sun getting up late, so no repeat of the sunrise the other day.

 Even the Watcher missed the Sunrise!

I don't do wet grass!

We met up with Max and Oscar and had to hang around for hours while OTL and Paul discussed cameras. Now we don't mind hanging around when it's nice and dry but today the grass was not only wet but it was cold as well!

Not all of us were happy about that!

Now, OTL is still giving language lessons so I'll head down stairs where I'm sure to find Archie Babe on Zoom with The Missus!

Bye for now.

Luv,

Daisy and Eric de Ferret.

Yesterday Morning.

 Hello Woofers!

Daisy and Eric de Ferret here.

You know it's going to take some time to get used to saying Daisy and Eric without wanting to put in Holly and Miss Wendy.

Miss Wendy is buried in the bug urn in the garden.

Now as sad as it was yesterday, Miss Wendy passed away very gently, which is the best way to go, no pain just a big breath and off you go!

Now yesterday morning we had a chance to see just what the sun and a few clouds could do if it all comes together, how about this one?

The Watchers on the Hill!

If you time it right you can get the same Two Legs walking their Woofers and the only thing that changes is the sky!

Turn slightly left and this is what you get!

Now, fast forward 24 hours and you get the Watcher on the hill all on his own 'cos the sun is still in bed and the clouds and mist just won't play games this morning!

Wot? No Sun!

Good news, OTL has got the new computer and is trying to get it all set up. You know, he has more bits of cable around the back of the computer than a plate of spaghetti!

I can see him getting in a state tomorrow trying to untangle it all and trying to remember where all the plugs go!

See you all tomorrow.

Luv,

Daisy and Eric de Ferret.

A sad, sad day.

 Hello Woofers,

Daisy and Eric de Ferret here.

Miss Wendy has not been very well for three weeks or so. When she walked she sometimes fell over to one. Side out walked along bouncing off the skirting board. Mind you, that didn’t stop her winding me up as she passed the bedroom door by calling me to ‘Come and play Chase’!

This weekend past she hasn’t got out of bed, preferring to cuddle up under a blanket and just watch the world go by.

This morning first thing Old Two Legs phoned for an appointment with the vet and was told to turn up at three fifteen. 

After dropping the computer into the shop for repair it was back home so I could got for a walk down on the sea wall.

Wendy was still in bed, sleeping in her cuddle cup. OTL pulled the cuddle cup out and gently stroked Wendy’s neck which she always liked.

After lunch OTL was going to get ready to take Wendy to the vet but when OTL looked into the cuddle cup, she had passed away. 

She was the eldest ferret we have had, OTL reckons she was a few days short of eight years, which is a good age for a ferret!

Wendy was a little old lady who didn’t mind mixing it with Eric when he wanted to play and she gave as good as she got, even if she was more than half the size of Eric!

Little Wendy was well up to Eric’s tricks and would attack Eric and scream her tail off making us all think it was Eric attacking her but it was the other way around, she was screaming and at the same time attacking Eric!

A gentle little ferret who never used her teeth on OTL and loved a cuddle with him before going to bed.

She has gone to the urn in the garden to be with all the other ferrets and Miss Holly.

Bye Bye Miss Wendy, we will miss you but look forward to seeing you again at the Rainbow Bridge.

Luv,

Daisy and Eric de Ferret.

Ten years old?

 Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Miss Wendy and Eric de Ferret here.

Old Two Legs is not a Happy Bunny, the main computer has decided to freeze and is refusing to work at all!

We have all Sunday to get it working and if there is no success then I can see the old credit card will be waved and a new, shiny box of electronics will be sitting on the desk!

OTL has been waving his finger at it and saying things like ‘You Have Been Warned’!

This time of the year the ferrets get up late and go back to bed soon after! Miss Wendy can put it down to old age but Eric is just a lazy ferret, mind you, I like a cuddle with OTL of an evening!  

Eric just loves a cuddle with Old Two Legs!

I’m having to do the blog on the iPad ‘cos the normal computer is sick so finding out where the controls are hidden is a nightmare!

Now, we have been working hard on our singing songs ‘cos today is Archie Babes 10th Birthday and he deserves a song ‘cos he is a Super Puppy for chasing squirrels and being on guard duty all night!

So, after 73, ready? Her we go……..7……47…….73

Happy Birthday Archie Babe,

Your Birthdays going to be a rave,

Followed up with a wrestle

And a squirrel pie, then a poo!

There now, stay warm and don’t forget that when you want a wee, those Two Legs have got to carry you out to the garden as a special birthday treat!

Here’s another treat, Eric, OTL and me, on the screen just behind him!

You just can't beat a cuddle in a wooly jumper! OTL says that the jumper comes from Tibet!

See you all tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Miss Wendy and Eric de Ferret.