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my name i d will to the sad scared shelter dog the place i had in my human s loving heart of which there seemed no bounds so when i die please do not say i will never have a pet again for the loss and the pain is more than i can stand instead go find an unloved dog one whose life has held no joy or hope and give my place to him this is the only thing i can give the love i left behind in my mind i was looking for a long haired male collie but had gone to wythall animal sanctary to look at an older long haired female collie i ended falling for misty a four and a half year old staffy cross talk about a total change of direction she had lived with a man and his five children until his circumstances had changed and he became unable to look after her yesterday i went to collect misty she has settled in extremely well even taking cindy s little dog syndrome in her stride more to follow as and when i get the time sadly after three attacks on cindy i couldn t risk a serious injury so not long after this post was written i reluctantly returned misty to the rescue she has since been successfully re homed posted in animals dogs photography tagged staffy x wythall animal sanctuary where has the year gone posted on october 27 2014 by vicky 10 comments you d think with all the to ing and fro ing between home and harrogate we d done over the previous months that when my mum s house sale was finalised and the dreaded drive up the m42 m1 m18 a1 motorways were behind us we d choose a different direction for a holiday june t had decided i needed a holiday the last year had been a stressful time to say the least so after arriving home on 19th june he booked us onto a campsite for a week from 24th june we d had a glorious week at this site in may 2012 that had left us with some wonderful memories yes anyone who has read my blog will realise this was whitby holiday park and yes it meant another dreaded m42 m1 m18 a1 again but i d got to the stage i wasn t sure what i wanted to do anymore i didn t want to go on holiday and i didn t want to stay at home i know t had meant well when he booked the holiday he knew how much i d enjoyed it before and he also knew how i d felt my yorkshire roots had been severed when i finally pulled the door to on my mums house which is why he d decided on whitby the 24th arrived but i still couldn t summon up any enthusiasm for the holiday i felt as if i was trapped in a bubble so apart from putting my clothes in the motorhome t did everything else four hours later we pulled into the holiday park everything looked exactly as it was the day we left in 2012 even the sun was shinning as it was then my mind immediately drifted back to jasper had his spirit joined us i wondered this holiday followed almost the same pattern as our previous visit though we didn t venture offsite with the van this time the walk down onto saltwick bay was easier as both sal and cindy took the steep slope down in their stride looking down to saltwick nab from the cleveland way footpath we walked into whitby a couple of times along the cleveland way parked just outside whitby abbey this was just screaming out to have it s photograph taken an old series ll lla land rover ice cream van a monument to captain james cook b 1728 the famous yorkshire explorer looks out over whitby harbour on the saturday we decided to visit the picturesque fishing village of staithes so another walk into whitby along the clifftop then down through the town to the bus station im sure every dog and his person had decided to do the same thing i counted seven dogs with their people obviously waiting in the queue with us it was certainly worth the trip as i got my first big hairy dog fix while sat outside the cod and lobster pub from an enormous german shepherd husky cross this dog could moult for england and after a ten minute cuddle he had donated most of his coat to me the rest was floating around the harbour like snow staithes harbour the cod and lobster is the cream building in the centre of the photo an artist at work in the harbour we were treated to the wonderful east coast sunsets again and by the end of the holiday i d started to unwind a bit typically just in time to go back home july a month later we were packing the motorhome again for another holiday revisit this time it was charmouth in dorset i had bitter sweet memories of this holiday last year as it had been jasper s last holiday so i wasn t sure if it was a good thing or not last year s holiday site was fully booked sowe d decided on another one just outside charmouth a beautiful well maintained site but a major drawback with its location we usually hook the motorhome up then either walk or use public transport to get about we knew we were a couple of miles from the beach via road but had hoped there may have been a shortcut via a footpath but no such luck and the nearest bus stop was over a mile away the walk wouldn t have bothered t and me but the temperature was in the 30 s and little sal who had recently been diagnosed with kidney disease had slowed down considerably so the next day we unhooked the motorhome and set off for charmouth could things get any worse our holiday last year had been in june and we d spent some quality time on the beach with the dogs but here we were confronted with big signs everywhere no dogs allowed on the beaches july and august we went for a short walk along the cliff path but both dogs were struggling so we went back down and sat on the grass at the edge of the river char looking down at the dog unfriendly beach luckily michelle our elder daughter and louis her son had arranged to join us later in the week so the next day we decided to just chill on the site michelle arrived on the friday morning after enquiring at the reception for the location of a dog friendly beach we all piled into her car and set off for eype no wonder this was dog friendly there was hardly any in sand in sight it was full of big pebbles great for an athletic young dog but not for a tiny yorkie who kept falling between the pebbles poor sal was struggling to keep her footing too so we called it a day and went to the pub louis wanted to go onto the beach so the next day t stayed onsite with sal and cindy and michelle louis and i went down to charmouth louis befriended a young boy with a dingy so at least someone enjoyed their holiday the next day we left the site early to go home we decided august would be a no for holidays so the next revisit was west runton september laburnum holiday park really has made a mark on our holiday destinations this was out third visit and it certainly won t be our last this site is a perfect location five minutes walk into the village of west runton where there is a regular bus service into sherringham cromer or further afield if you wish pitched on the clifftop overlooking the north sea just across the tarmac and standing at the fence this was the view a ten minute amble and we were on the glorious norfolk beaches where if the tide is out it is possible to walk into sherringham or cromer we did the walk into sherringham three times catching the bus back to the village to save little sal tiring too much an amazing trompe l oeil on the seafront at sherringham depicting the crab fisherman for which the area is famous this was a puzzling sight on sherringham beach had the sea lined up all the pebbles in a straight line or perhaps it was the sea fairies the sun shone the whole week we ate some good food drank some good wine and came home feeling rejuvenated this slideshow requires javascript here are a few more photos from what is fast becoming my favourite holiday location little did i know it was going to be little sal s last beach holiday posted in charmouth dorset holidays motorhome north sea photography sherringham staithes sunsets west runton whitby yorkshire tagged captain james cook cleveland way north sea sunset saltwick nab trompe d oeil whitby abbey goodnight miss goody four paws posted on october 19 2014 by vicky 13 comments little sal what a total sweetheart she was gentle affectionate and extremely well behaved she was a good car passenger never pulled on the lead didn t run away when off the lead didn t chase livestock she loved being brushed never objected to her teeth being cleaned i could go on and on singing her praises but i think you get the picture i adopted her in september 2007 from the border collie trust gb at rugely she d only been there a couple of weeks so i guess if i hadn t adopted her someone else would have snapped her up pretty quick but the story of her life prior to that really shook me things could have been oh so different if it hadn t been for a dear old lady with a heart of gold anne fowler r i p lived in a small cottage near barmouth in wales she would visit local dog pounds where dogs that had been found or handed in waited their allotted time on death row anne would take whatever dogs she could away from their death sentence and give them a safe haven until a space could be found in a rescue centre with a no kill policy anne worked closely with the border collie trust little sal was one of these dogs aged at approx six years she was on day six of her seven day sentence when anne took her in when i adopted sal from the border collie trust i was given the letter that accompanied her from anne fowler this is what she had to say i respected anne s wishes and wrote to her a couple of months later explaining i was the person lucky enough to have adopted sally and enclosed a few photos of her with hugehappyhairyharry my other dog i received this lovely reply from an obviously very caring person a few months later on a trip to wales we made a point of finding anne we found her little cottage hideaway and i knocked on the door a sweet old lady wearing wellies and clothes covered in dog hairs answered i explained who i was and that little sal was outside in my motor if she d like to see her again eagerly she came outside saw sal and smothered her in kisses she d remembered her and went on to tell me all about how attached she d become to the gentle sweet little dog she d rescued within one day of death i wrote to anne again several months later explaining how sally had been distraught at the death of harry but she now had a new friend called jasper and i enclosed some photos of her with him i never received a reply and it was only months later when chatting with the staff at the border collie trust that i was told anne had sadly passed away such a sad loss for the dog rescue world little sal was diagnosed with kidney failure earlier this year and after suffering a massive seizure late friday evening we took the heartbreaking decision to have her put to sleep seven years after anne saved her from that fate i think this time she was ready to go i hope she enjoyed those extra seven years with us and her two hairy friends harry and jasper r i p little sal posted in dogs tagged the border collie trust gb 1st august yorkshire day posted on august 1 2014 by vicky 26 comments happy yorkshire day to all yorkshire folk wherever you may be living very patriotic us tykes i don t think there is another county in the uk that has a special day yorkshire day was initially celebrated in 1975 by the yorkshire ridings society as a protest to the local government re organsations of 1974 i had been living in worcestershire since 1969 but i remember how incensed i felt when suddenly beverley my birthplace hornsea where both maternal and paternal grandparents lived and bridlington where my uncle lived had suddenly been moved from the east riding of yorkshire to north humberside how dare someone sat in a government office mess with gods own county so i set about my own little protest not alone i doubt and made a point of addressing any correspondence to my family in bold underlined capital letters east riding of yorkshire the county of humberside was abolished in 1996 though sadly the title is still in use with the police fire brigade and a radio station to name but a few the symbol of the white rose has a long history dating back to the civil wars of the 15th century when it was the symbol of the yorkist forces 1st august is also the battle of minden when in 1759 soldiers of the 51st regiment of foot a yorkshire regiment were said to have picked white roses to wear in memory of their fallen comrades i ll leave you with the yorkshire motto and anthem posted in uncategorized tagged yorkshire day yorkshire ridings society spring bank holiday posted on may 26 2014 by vicky 12 comments monday the 26th may is a date etched rather deeply in my memory today the 26th may falls on a uk bank holiday six years ago it also fell on a bank holiday monday the next time this happens will be 2025 i wonder if my memory of that date will still be as vivid i won t go into detail again as i have written about it before here but i will post this short video again miss you big lad posted in dogs tagged spring bank holiday parlez vous tyke posted on may 17 2014 by vicky 14 comments anyone with the slightest interest in cycling will have heard of the tour de france but i wonder how many will know that the first three stages this year will be held in england and where will two of these three stages will be held yes yorkshire but i guess the blog title gave that away every year t and i are glued to the tv watching the race filmed from the motorbikes and helicopters and drinking in the amazing scenery this year we d planned to stop at my mum s and see it all in the flesh but it doesn t look like that will happen now as i mentioned in an earlier post mum s house went on the market in april and sold within a couple of days although contracts have yet to be signed if everything goes to plan i don t envisage still owning the house in july when the race takes place stage 1 july 5th after leaving leeds and travelling through some of yorkshires s magnificent scenery there will be a sprint finish into harrogate i can imagine the whole town will be bubbling over with tour fever as the riders descend on the town especially as harrogate is home town to the mother of mark cavendish stage 2 july 6th the riders leave york en route for sheffield some 17 miles after leaving york they will pass through knaresborough then a mile uphill into starbeck and a couple of hundred yards from my mums house all the information about the two yorkshire stages plus the stage 3 cambridge to london can be read here tour fever has also gripped knaresborough those of you who read my blog will know we ve spent quite a lot of time in this old market town over the last few months i wrote about the knaresborough windows or trompe l oeil to give them their proper title in an earlier post a new window has appeared depicting beryl burton and brian robinson two cycling greats from yorkshire theres a commemorative section of drystone wall and some carved wooden sheep there are yellow flags union flags and french flags flying...