It’s a Blog ! Not a Log !

Just finsihed work and walked out into the car park to find my car covered in a freshly laid carpet of snow, which means I can have a mad moment with Blue our Cane Corso, she goes mental when its snows (see the video below)

So once I’m finished on here and got changed out of my work clothes me and my best friend are going for a walk round Longford Park and maybe chase some Squirrels in the snow, then after go get a nice Mulled Wine at Electrik Bar in Chorlton.

Back later

Finally got around to uploading a few more of our video adventures to YouTube from the past few month’s, as usual quite a few of them are of our Cane Corso Blue on her various adventures round new dogwalks, theres also a few from our visit to Yorkshire in May and theres a video of a friends band Marble Valley when they played at the Irish Social CLub in Chorlton in April, anyway won’t bore you to much with the details, I’ll leave you to watch them and figure it out for yourselfs.

Could’nt sleep this morning so decided to upload a few more videos to YouTube.

First one’s of Blue in Longford Parkin Chorlton enjoying running through the Daffodills, she seems to like them, reminds her of long grss no doubt

This second one’s of our return journey from Yorkshire to Manchester, not to sure about the music I added to it though think I might have to change it to something a bit more uptempo

Anyway enjoy and feel free to comment

Blue has her first journey on a Bus, the No 23 took her from Davyhulme all the way to Chorlton and she was a very calm and well behaved passenger

I’ve awoken this morning to discover all that lovely white fluffy looking stuff called snow has melted and all that remains to say it was even here are a few mis-shaped piles of snow that were once some kids attempts at making snowmen.

Blue enjoyed the snow as you can see from the video below, Mel filmed this yesterday on the field opposite our house, I managed to get out with Blue last night, but it was just to dark to film anything, maybe next time

Blue enjoys the snow

Well I’ve spent most of this evening uploading new videos to you YouTube, been a while since I’ve put any up, so there’s quite a few for your viewing pleasure, as usual there’s going to be quite a lot of our dog Blue, but hey she’s the best looking Cane Corso in Manchester, hell she’s the only Cane Corso in Manchester

Also stuck one up there for all those you who are curious about what Orlando’s our usual weekend breakfast haunt is like, should give you an idea of the general look of the place, if you haven’t been to Orlando’s, you should really go, its a very friendly relaxed laid back sort of place with good food, good people and probably the nicest bar staff in Chorlton.

I think between me, Mel and Blue we’ve been there every weekend for at least the last 4-5 months having breakfast, that’s how much we like the place, we’re probably heading there over X-mas for one of there Caribbean Christmas Dinners as well (Christmas Dinner Menu  here) .

Anyway these videos are just for starters got alot more stuff still not uploaded yet so hopefully do those tonight.

Well after spending a lot of last night awake due to Blue making the most pitiful whining and mewing noises and rubbing her stomach to soothe her I think I’ve finally figured out what’s wrong with Blue !

Its one of 2 things, she’s either pregnant or she’s having a phantom pregnancy, at the moment its looking like a phantom one as she’s not been anywhere near any other dogs while she was in season, well I’m sure she hasn’t.

The symptoms she has that brought me to this conclusion are :

Lactating breasts
Treating her toys as if there puppies (carrying them where ever she goes, whining when she cant find them)
Loss of appetite
Nesting instincts

All of these point to possible pregnancy or phantom pregnancy, so either way we’ll know soon enough.

In the meantime here’s Blue showing her Nesting instinct, I kept on seeing her disappearing into a bush in the garden and went to investigate and this is what I found

Blue had heard about the story of the Magic Sausage hands ever since she was a puppie, she heard the older dogs talk about them in whispers and heard her litter mates stories about how they hoped one day to meet the Magic Sausage hands . . but never in a 1000 Years did she think the Hands would come to her

Well wasn’t that a good weekend for a change

It seems as though its been months since we had such a sunny set of days, just hope that its a precursor for the Big Chill Weekend, cause if it is I might actually get a suntan before the years out.

Now suppose I’d better tell you what sort of a weekend we’ve had :

Friday : Well this was supposed to be just a quiet night in for me and Mel to watch some movies, but instead it turned into a night in with me, Mel and our mate John, how did this happen, well after we’d watched the first of our movies “The Last Castle” with Robert Redford ( a very good movie, you should watch itI got a missed call of John, so rang him back to discover he was having a bit of a relationship crisis and needed a mate to cheer him up, so got in the car picked John up went to Asda to score some beers and cider and then headed back to ours where all 3 of us talked into the early hours until John fell asleep on the recliner.

Saturday was intended to be our get everything ready for the Big Chill Weekend i.e. test the new tent, clean out under the stairs in order to find camping equipment, test pack the car to see how much room we had etc etc, but as John had stayed over the previous night this didn’t happen as planned, instead Mel, John and Blue went for a walk on the field and were later joined by Ben, who turned up at ours about 11:00am, so while they all chilled on the field I set about checking under the stairs, where I found about 4 torch’s, various camping style head wear, our camping flags and some spare gas for our camping stove, so it was a fairly successful clean up.

Next up was testing the new tent, at first this looked as though it could be a bit of a nightmare due to the instructions provided with the tent weren’t exactly the easiest to comprehend, but after about 20-30 mins I had the tent up, and if I do say so myself it looked pretty sweet indeed.

What the finished product looks like.

Anyway if your after a tent like this its the Quecha T6.2 available from all good camping shops for £169 or there abouts, we got ours from Decathlon in Stockport, the tent specs can be found here and I’ll no doubt post a review of the tent once we get back from the Big Chill.

After packing the tent away it was time to take Blue for her Saturday walk round Ivy Green and Chorlton Water Park, something we both enjoy as it gets us out of the house and gives us both a bit of exercise, something I need more then Blue, think this could be down mainly to me visiting Orlando’s afterwards for a Jerk Chicken and Salad sarnie, Blue got a sausage

Chorlton Water Park

Then it was home to chill out in the remaining sunshine and finish the beers from the previous night.

Sunday  was just a day to lay in bed most of the morning and then it was up and away to Ivy Green again, spent about an hour wondering round the woods and alongside the Mersey, both of which were fairly busy, put this down to the sun being out I guess, then it was off to Chorlton Green to sit in the sun and drink some beer.

Got home from the Green around 7pm and again it was watch some junk TV and the to bed.

And that dear readers was the weekend, not a truly eventful one, but still a nice one especially as the sun shone near enough the whole weekend, here’s hoping that Summers finally arrived.

Make Blue a YouTube SuperStar

Today I start a campaign to make our dog Blue a YouTube Superstar