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Auriel
- Aug 27, 2018
- 1 min
Crossing the wibbly-wobbly French bridge
I think she kept getting glances of the water beneath through the slats but soldiered on all the same. As granny does a parachute jump for her 90th, Rufus ventures across a wibbly bridge at the age of 17 (something like 90 for the smaller dog). #bridge #dogwalks #seniordog #France
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Auriel Roe
- Aug 22, 2018
- 2 min
mad-eyed dogs in ghost towns
Driving through the back roads of Northern Spain and into the central zone of rural France, you can see traces of times past and evidence of hard-earned earlier prosperity. A central square that once bustled with farmers with their livestock on market days now cannot support a rough and ready convenience store. The automation of farming was a wondrous thing, only it made people redundant - literally - in the country towns, ending an era of hardship but how does this compare
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Auriel Roe
- Aug 15, 2018
- 1 min
And They're Off!
A chain gang style leash has been developed to prevent the 17 year old Rufus running off to chase a rabbit and forgetting she was ever owned. This has periodically happened during the 15 years she has lived with us. Once, in her younger days, she ended up 50 km away. She has scooted off within the past 6 months so we’re not out of the woods yet, although she has the potential to be. The slower and wearier, albeit younger, Puppy has become the anchor to Rufus... the ponderous
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Auriel Roe
- Aug 12, 2018
- 1 min
Dog Tour Bucket List
Our dogs are now 14 and 17. Tomorrow we will set off on a dog tour bucket list. The 14-year-old, Puppy, is a frothy sort of Husky mix. (We never got round to changing her name after we found her, abandoned, in her youthful state - I actually met a dog so-called for exactly the same reason on Crete.) Rufus, whose black face is now peppered with grey, is 17, and is one of these smaller barrel-chested creatures designed for longevity... "She'll outlive the lot of us", we used
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Auriel Roe
- Aug 1, 2018
- 2 min
selling my soul to an agent of literature
Of course, there is so much of your soul in your novel, and banding it around to the highest - no, any - bidder can make even the most stoic among us feel a little shabby. Life as a all-too-swiftly melting particle in the slush pile can provoke desperate behaviour, such as signing up to the first person who makes an offer. (I've heard agents spend an average of 20 seconds looking at each submission when I probably spend 20 minutes adjusting my material so it caters to their
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