Santa has been to our house once more and brought us some lovely gifts for Christmas Day.
The freezing temperatures have not stopped Father Christmas defrosting his sleigh for Christmas 2010. So what is dad’s excuse for washer bottles freezing and needing to scrape the windows?
Two dogs in Cumbria now have very happy lickers thanks to gifts provided by our readers and friends.
Christmas Day
An early start on Christmas Day for us all but first some porridge and a cup of tea for mum and dad.
How long does it take for them to eat their breakfasts? Hurry up. Santa has been and we have loads of lovely sniffs all wrapped up under the tree.
Eventually they finish and we can get down to some serious unwrapping. Every parcel is inspected to see if it contains chocolate, biscuits or squeaky things for us.
Dad gets a number of bottles of brown gold coloured liquids that he calls whisky. The glass is cold on our noses and they smell slightly of caramel or the sea.
Mums soapy things make us sneeze. One gift was of talc and it has slightly leaked in the packaging. When the parcel was opened Charlie was covered with white powder. It was funny and he sneezed and sneezed until mum wiped his nose with a cloth.
Christmas gifts from Toby
Thanks to our friend Toby, in South Cumbria, we are the proud owner of two well wrapped presents.
Mum has decided that she is going to keep these prezzies in a safe place for a few weeks as we have plenty of other things to be getting on with.
Toby sent us a photograph of the hide boot chew we sent him. He says he loved pulling out the laces then working on the big flat pieces.
He adds that it took him most of Christmas Day afternoon to deal with the challenge.
He goes on to say that the snow and ice is still causing problems to walk on for his human but now that she has some new rubber pull-on walking spikes, walks around the block are back to their normal length once more.
Christmas gifts for dogs
Back to our gifts and one thing missing, thankfully for the sanity of our two-leggers, are squeaky toys.
Not one parcel contained a christmas cracker or pully-tuggy toy thing with a squeak.
A whole Christmas without the squeak, squeak of the shrill squeakers and mum reaching for the headache pills before lunch.
Highlight of the gifts has to a be a doggy breakfast and a packet of Scooby Snacks.
Thick rashers of bacon, hashbrowns and other breakfast lovelieness in a box and all for us, yummy.
Dad says we can have one Scooby snack or rasher each per day. Next he will be issuing a Ration Book like they had during the War.
Christmas sprout stalk
The seasonal Christmas lunch would not be complete without sprouts, and this year was no exception.
A fantastic raw sprout stalk, cut into sections will keep us going for quite a few days. Assuming mum doesn’t break the knife she uses to cut it with.
That is all for now as we need to lay down in front of the fire whilst the two leggers watch something on the magic window. They mentioned something about a lonely goat on a motorcycle in a chocolate factory I think.
Happy Christmas for us all
Buster and Charlie