15th February 2010

Mabel
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

The beautiful Mabel, Hochopepa Am I Bovvered, posing for the camera. Her mum is the lovely Ethel (Hochopepa Don't Look Ethel) and dad is Little Ben (Michiamo Baradello).

14th February 2010

Buca
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

We went for a lovely walk today to the Monsal Viaduct. Very hilly and Buca failed to negotiate a wall (with steps provided). Eventually we had to find him a lower bit to scramble over. He even made quite an ordeal of it and needed lots of help and encouragement.

13th February 2010

Chez Mabel
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Our tour moves north to Derbyshire where we stayed with Mabel and her family. She was very generous giving up her sofa to visitors. Typical spinone scene.

12th February 2010

Hudson's Island
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Joan's kitchen has a lino floor and Hudson still has a thing about shiny floors. We had to put down a few mats and towels so that he could go Island Hopping to get around. Here he is sitting on one of his islands looking very sorry for himself.

11th February 2010

Visiting Joan
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Hudson, Buca and Alice on tour, first stop Kirby Muxloe to stay with Joan for a couple of days.

8th February 2010

Hudson & Alice sharing the sofa
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Hudson and Alice share the sofa today. Hudson is being amazingly well behaved considering Alice is in season.

6th February 2010

A Walk in the New Forest
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

A lovely walk in the New Forest with Gaynor and Penny. From left to right Alfie, Sid, Murphy, Ruby, Fraggle, Bobby, Kiri, Buca, Norman and Frank.

1st February 2010

Spinone Footprints in the Frost
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Spinone Footprints in the Frost. We had a heavy white frost last night and Buca has hot paws!

29th January 2010

Buca Alice Bobby
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

L-R Buca, Alice & Bobby relax on the sofa.

28th January 2010

Buca Gets Stuck Again!
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Buca features again .... and gets stuck again. Buca has a thing about narrow gaps.

25th January 2010

Norman - Hochopepa Mr Grimsdale
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Norman (Hochopepa Mr Grimsdale) at Manchester Ch show yesterday. Mum is Ethel (Hochopepa Don't Look Ethel) and dad is Little Ben (Michiamo Baradello).

24th January 2010

Jaylynne Phoebe - Italian Spinone
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

I went to Manchester Ch Show unexpectedly today, Marie had broken her wrist and couldn't drive. We had a lovely day out and saw Phoebe, one of Jaffa & Ben's puppies. I haven't seen her since she was a tiny puppy. She had a great result winning 2nd in the Minor Puppy class which qualifies her for Crufts 2011. It was her first Championship Show too.

16th January 2010

The First Michiamo Puppy
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

No photo opportunities today so rewinding back 6 years when the first Michiamo puppy was born. Mum is Fraggle (Kenmillen Fara del Michiamo) and dad is Rocco (Goldfly Dollie Fooled Again at Cobbets). Her puppy name was Stella - yes after the lager! We kept her and the puppy known as Tex from the litter. She became known as Kiri (Michiamo Candolini). Tex became Buca (Michiamo Zambuca). Our KC names had a Liqueur theme.

13th January 2010

Photo Mosaic
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Little Ben at 5 weeks old, as a photo mosaic.

11th January 2010

Wordle is Wonderful
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Photo opportunites were a bit limited today so I thought a word cloud example showing the names of our spinoni would be a good alternative. This was created at http://www.wordle.net/.

9th January 2010

Riva's Anniversary
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Today we bend the rules a little and use a picture taken 1 year ago, on the day that we had to say goodbye to Riva. It was a lovely sunny day and she decided to have a snooze in the sunshine on a bed of dried oak leaves.

8th January 2010

Buca Gets Stuck
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Buca provides today's photo. He follows his sister into a fenced off area of the garden but can't get out again. Being Buca he screams for help. The noise was awful, I'm sure the neighbours thought he was being tortured. This is fairly typical behaviour for him. He has a bit of a spatial awareness problem and won't go through a gap if he thinks it is too narrow.

Today the utility room flooded as the washing machine outlet pipe froze.

7th January 2010

Bobby's Icicle
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

It's so cold today that even Bobby's beard has frozen. A beautfiul sunny day but not warm enough to melt the frozen snow that is left on the grass.
I ventured out today, the puddles at the end of the track have built up ice walls around the edges making them seem deeper than they really are. The local roads were all fine, but we haven't had much snow here. Due to be colder tonight and tomorrow.

6th January 2010

Molly & Buca
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

Buca is staying away with his friends for a few days. He slept in till 8.50am ... typical. He has had more snow than us so he sent today's picture of himself and Molly enjoying themselves in the garden. We had very little snow today, no more than a centimetre. It has settled a little but not much to photograph so I tried a panoramic stitch which turned out ok but more practise needed!

Thai curry tonight following Nigel's visit to the oriental food shop.

3rd January 2010

IMG_0064_03.01.10
Originally uploaded by spinoneuk

We are going to try and take a photo every day for 365 days, our own Project 365.

This is our first one of Buca and Hudson wrapping up ready for the snow that is forecast this week.