Category: Collie dogs

#FurryFives – Easter

Sammy: She didn’t need to flounce off like that! Tess: She’ll be back when she smells the lunch cooking. Sammy: She lived with us, once, you know. She didn’t flounce off when we rescued her from the streets of Bolton! Oh, no – scoffed all my food then! Tess: Ingrate… Sammy: Sniff. ©Stephen Tanham

#FurryFives – Cure for Crows

I hate crows, Tess, don’t you? – They’re harmless… just make a lot of noise That’s the point, craw, craw, bloody craw… from dawn till dusk – What are you doing now? Your little head’s going into another dimension! Shaking their noise out of my ears. © Stephen Tanham

#FurryFives – All Work…

I’m trying to work! – I knoooowwwwrrrr I have a deadline… – Is it as good as purring? Well, now you come to mention it, nnnnoooooooooowrrrr ——— ©Stephen Tanham

#FurryFives – Squadron

Nose a bit forward, rear gunner! – Like this? Roger! – Tess, what are we doing? Formation sleeping of course! ©Stephen Tanham

#FurryFives Eeurgh!

– C’mon little fella, you can make it… – That pond’s not far! – Just three more hops… one, two– – Eeurgh! I can’t look – I hate herons… ©Stephen Tanham

#FurryFives – Bored

Misti :  I’m bored Tess: I’m staying asleep Misti: I’m still bored Tess: You’ve been running across the back of my settee for an hour Misti: You’re so predictable… ©Stephen Tanham

#FurryFives – What’s a mirror?

  Tees :  There are two of them… Misti : There are two of us… Tess: One of them is watching us. Misti: It’s a mirror Tess: What’s a mirror? ©Stephen Tanham

#FurryFives – feeling lucky, punk?

Tees (Dog): Now you’re asking yourself… Misti (Cat): Did she fire five or six? Tess: To be honest, punk, I don’t remember. Misti: So now you want to know if I’m feeling lucky? Tess: You make a rubbish baddie! ©Stephen Tanham

Model aeroplanes, stone walls and the dog’s disc

When I was a youngster, I dreamed of having a ‘radio-control’ model aeroplane.  At every chance, I would pore over well-thumbed magazine articles about how you could build your own ‘single-channel’ radio control transmitter, which, in conjunction with impossibly complex on-board gadgetry, including a well-wound rubber band to power the mechanism that changed the rudder setting, would allow you the merest smidgen of control … Read More Model aeroplanes, stone walls and the dog’s disc