Eight years ago today Franklin came into our family, a rescue dog from the SPA in Rodez we drove to see if they had a dog to re home. He had been there a month after being left tied to a bin in the town centre, chosen because he didn't bark, he came to us to say hello and was completely different from the dog we had lost days before Christmas. 120 Euros he cost, a young boy still a pup, very thin but with a look of take me home please. A collar put round his neck, forms completed, cheque handed over and a kiss from the manager and he was ours. Five minutes down the road in the car he threw up. Five minutes in the house and he had weed up the settee and collected an assortment of treasures including socks, toilet roll inner tubes, tissues and soft toys all placed in a pile under the table and garded. He ate at an amazing speed, fearing he would loose it to our other dogs. Then he started to bark, he has a fine bark on him. He barks for his tea, when a visitor arrives, the ...
An Essex girl's life in France
Hope you managed to get enough of them before the villages raided your fields....pity they were out when we were there could have had a couple on our BBQ; that is if we cud get the thing to burn properly @!
ReplyDeleteyes can't believe you call yourseves Aussies and can't operate a BBQ. I did find quiet a few even managed to dry some - will post some out to you - no truffels though.
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