Michael Gorey

Sooty had her first hair cut today at the age of six months.
She was very well behaved while visiting the hairdresser and devoured her doggy treat afterwards.
She looks skinnier than I expected, which suggests that we aren’t feeding her too much. She doesn’t want more food, so I guess she’s healthy.
Next job on the list [...]

We thought we had lost Sooty tonight. We went for a walk on dusk at the vacant land across from our house near the tennis courts.
On the way back, Sooty ran off and disappeared. The light was fading and she’s a black fur ball, so we had no hope of spotting her.
We called out and [...]

Kathleen had her primary school graduation this evening for the second time. Western Australia is the only Australian state where primary school includes year 7, and apparently that may change in 2008.
Anyway, it was good fun for Kathleen, who has been top dog at school for two years in a row.
Tonight we were surprised and [...]

Tis the season to be jolly and all that, but Christmas morning for parents is madness. We managed a seven o’clock sleep-in this year, only because the big kids were under orders to wait until the toddlers woke up. James was the last to rise.
We then opened presents, which in proportion to the time it [...]

My morning jog continues to provide inspiration for mini-blogs. Today I was just past the first caravan park towards the Buckland Bridge when I heard dogs barking where I’ve never heard or seen dogs before.
A minute later I saw two dogs and another animal running towards me on the opposite side of the road. I [...]

My correspondent continues her story of the Gorey ghost in the Welsh mountains:
The haunting didn’t stop and there were many more times when we, or one or two visitors saw, or felt a spirit. I don’t know if it was the same one, or different ones. The house — Bwlch yn Horeb, known as the [...]

The twins will be 20 months old on Tuesday. Here is the full list of their current vocabulary:
mum, dad, dude, leen, dog, snowy, stevie, ouch (pronounced ow), oh oh, poo, wee, pie, more, ta, bowl, teddy, moo, mine, bickie, bird, dodo, bob, water (walla), bottle (boll), claudia, bubba, nose, no, juice, belly, boobs (beebee), door, [...]

I took Snowy for a walk this morning and noticed he had some red stuff in his white fur. It was sticky, and it wasn’t blood.
Juliet tells me the babies plastered him with strawberry jam!

I went cycling up the Buckland Valley today. I don’t ride much in winter, but conditions were balmy today, more like September than July.
Going past the Lumsden’s dairy farm I noticed the newborn calves and pondered their existence. Never to know their dads, these little one have already been weaned from their mums.
Half of them [...]

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