I see the Sea and the sea sees me!

Wasn’t it a beautiful weekend!

On Saturday Mum and Dad had to get up really early to take Scott to catch the train to somewhere called Scotland for a big Scout adventure! They got back almost before I had woken up it was that early! He’s been gone for ages now. I don’t know when he’ll be back!

It was such a beautiful day that we decided we needed to go out for the day. A chance encounter with a coach meant that Southwold became our destination. We had to go in the car and I was in my travel crate for ages and ages and ages

When we got to Southwold, there were lots of people and quite a few dogs too!We went onto a thing called a pier first. It’s like a long path but there is water moving around underneath – very strange! Ryan and Dad were geocaching again so I had to help them find something. It was a bit difficult when you only have little legs and what you need to find is very high!

We walked along the prom, past lots of little huts near the beach where families were all out enjoying the hot and sunny day

We had to walk past the beach-huts a lot and look at all the names and numbers! I was very hot when we had finished so I was very pleased to stop for lunch

After lunch we walked even further along the marsh land just away from the beach. It was even hotter there so I took the chance to have a little lay down in the shade

We walked all the way up to the boats but Mum said we couldn’t go crabbing this time. Shame – it looked like fun!

We walked back on the beach and I got to paddle in the sea. The sea kept running away though and it tasted funny!

We did walk a long way – I think I wore Ryan out!

After we’d walked along the front, we had to get back in the car then get out again a moment later and go and hunt around a church yard. I tried to help but it wasn’t very easy to find all the information we were looking for – some of it must have been in some very obscure corners of the graveyard!

Dad had to go into a shop on the way back to the car. I don’t know what Adnams sells but he had a very clinky box on the way back to the car!

More geocaching on the way back, stopping at another church – more information very well hidden! - and something called a Martello Tower.

Eventually we stopped at a shop that smelled very nice in a town called Aldeburgh. Mum, Dad and Ryan had fish’n’chips from the paper sitting by the beach but they wouldn’t let me have anything. Mum said something about my tummy and the long car journey – I don’t know what she meant!

I’ve been staying home this week and looking after Ryan while Scott was away.

It’s been very hot but I feel a lot cooler now I’ve had my hair cut. Do you think I look smarter?

Got to finish up now. Mum says we’ve got to watch something called the Olympic Opening Ceremony. I don’t know what’s going on but she seems very excited and I know Dad and Ryan have gone to ring the church bells to celebrate it!



Scouting about!

I had another Caching adventure this week

Both my Boys are Scouts. Ryan is an Explorer Scout and Scott is an Air Scout and they are always going off on adventures and they sound like they have such a good time.

I’ve always wished I could go with them and last Friday I had my chance!

Ryan and Dad went to Air Scouts last week and told them all about Geocaching and how it works

This Friday we met all the Scouts at the nice café with the dog biscuits and they all went caching along the old railway. They were in 5 groups and had 5 caches to find so each group set off to find a different cache

I thought that, as an experienced cache hound, I had better tag along to make sure they were all enjoying the night out. I helped look for caches and alerted them to any other dogs that were around. We had a lovely long walk over the big bridge and back. Finally I decided the best job for me was to sit down back at the beginning and wait for everyone to get back!

I’m pleased to say that all the Scouts did very well. They all took turns reading out the instructions and holding the GPS device (and taking a very friendly little schnauzer for a walk!)

At the end, they all said they had had fun and some of them were going away to find out more about Geocaching so I think that was a good job well done!

I went to a different school this week. Mum said she didn’t think we were working hard enough at the other school and also she wasn’t very happy about how I had been told off.

Dad took me to the new school as Mum was going out without me! I had a very good time and came away with some homework for the week. I have been practicing very hard and I’m getting very good at lying down!

In fact, I’ve been working very hard! I’ve even been helping Mum look after her residents and helping her in the office too!