More Shenanigans and Awards

We have been given a couple more awards! First up, our new Great Dane friend Kiko gave us this cute award. He lives in Portugal and according to Babelfish it translates to "Your blog deserves to be filmed" Wow, thanks so much Kiko!

There are rules:

1. Post it to the blog and link to who gave it to you.

2. Choose 5 life situations that could be repeated in slow motion and explain why.

3. List twelve blogs and let them know you've given them the award.

Hmmmm, well we've got number 1 ticked off, number 2 is tricky, we are Beagles....ummmm, what's slow motion?? Eating our dinner would be about the only thing we could list there....oh if only we could eat in slow motion! Oooh, maybe opening parcels too....that always happens too quickly! Number 3 is also tricky....we couldn't possibly choose just twelve blogs and it would take forever to do the links so we'll just say that if you don't already have this award then feel free to help yourself!

Next is the International Bloggers Community which was given to us by our sweet Beagle friend Kess who lives in Malaysia, thanks Kess!

We had already received this from Sue so we'll just link back to that post.

We now officially declare this blog an award free zone! We don't want to be party poopers and it's lovely to be appreciated but we just can't keep up with all these awards and tags anymore....each one seems to have more and more rules attached and we're not managing to post or comment as much as usual....so thanks to all those who have given us an award in the past....but from now on, no thanks!

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We have been on some cool walks....we went to Nairn to walk by the river and saw a cool bird which we barked at and he flew away.

We haven't had much nice weather the last few days so not many photos (we even had a big thunder storm!) but yesterday when we went to Roseisle it was lovely and sunny. Us girls even got off our leads for a while....it was a riot, look at our long tongues!

If you are of a sensitive disposition you might want to give tomorrow's Wordless post a miss....we're just sayin'....

More Mail and a Riverside Amble

Yesterday we got a surprise in the post....a parcel from Suzuki. We couldn't work out why but it was just for taking part in her 100th post celebrations, how cool is that!? We love our new stuff Suzuki, thank you so much for the generous parcel, you're so kind!

We got two snazzy new tennis balls, a squeaky tiger and this cool kong type thing in the shape of a fire hydrant (we were just telling Mason yesterday how we don't get fire hydrants here). Ooh, it has lots of space inside....I wonder what we could put in it....?

Mmmm, peanut butter of course....and a gravy bone! (Please go and give a message of support to Thor, who because he lives in Brazil is not allowed peanut butter!)

We put it in the freezer....just like the OP Pack do....and then gave it to Rosie while the rest of us went for a walk beside the River Nairn. We love this walk!

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We've already had our Mother's Day, way back in March but we know it's Mother's Day in other parts of the world so here are some flowers for all the Mums, who work so hard to tend to our every need and stay up late writing our blogs for us and working their fingers to the bone....thank you Mums, put your feet up and have a cuppa! (we'd make it for you if we had opposable thumbs....Dad?)

Happy Mother's Day!!

Mono Maniacs, River and Beach....and an Award!

To join in with Mono Maniacs visit Aileni.

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We got this lovely 'Your Blog is Fabulous' award from our good friend Dennis the Vizsla!

Thank you Dennis, we think your blog is pretty fabulous too :D

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The River Findhorn, which flows from the River Spey down to Findhorn Bay.

Snoop hates this footbridge and tries to tiptoe past it unnoticed. When we cross it he just waits at the other side! (We came straight back, just trying to get the girls used to it.)

This is not only a lovely walk, it's a favourite for bonfires, picnics, parties and fishing. It's also part of the National Cycle Network.

There are dirt jumps for the more adventurous.

We didn't go to Broom of Moy....it's across the dreaded bridge!

We found some pretty flowers....

The big trees are in bud....

....and the girls spotted a rabbit....Rosie squeals and Gabbi snorts....good job they were on leads!

In the evening we went to Findhorn Dunes area and walked back along the beach for a lovely sunset. Over towards the Bay we could see it was really busy but this end of the beach was nice and quiet :o)

We dared to let the girls off lead for a bit, keeping them close with treats....Gabbi was in fine voice while Rosie just smacked her lips!

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We posted the wrong video yesterday....THIS is the one of Alfie the clown tormenting Rosie with seaweed!

Silly Mum!

We had a great day and a lovely Easter....hope you all had the same, we're off to Roseisle now....no doubt there will be pictures!

Sunday Scenery

Some of this week's scenery shots....

The first two taken on Wednesday's walk along the Findhorn River.

The woods and beach at Burghead.

Elgin

We went to a show in Edinburgh today, no great results but we had an enjoyable day, it's good to travel with friends :o) The carpark at Ingliston Showground overlooks the runway at the Airport.

Forth Bridge (taken from the Forth Road Bridge)

Some of Edinburgh's hills

Some shots from inside the venue.....name that breed?

Ready for home, riding with our giant friends, Walter and Annie.

See Skywatch this coming Friday for this morning's sunrise :o)

Skywatch Friday and the Birthday Boy!

Some of this week's skies :o)

Gorgeous sky at Burghead Beach, 27th Jan at around 2pm.

More gorgeous skies, this time taken over the Findhorn River, on 28th Jan, again at around 2pm.

This isn't a great photo as I only had my old phone camera with me and the big Tesco light was in the way, but it really looked like a head with flowing hair!

More from Burghead 29th Jan.

Muuuuuum, can I have my pressies now??

Pig ears....nom nom!

Gabbi checks the table for any more....and this is what's left of the pack!

Handsome Birthday Boy!

Sniff sniff.....

We can hear it.....

We can smell it....

Oooh, we can see it!

Mmmm, we can taste it..... (Mum: not recommended!)

Aaahh, we can feel it! (Mum: also, not recommended, this is the North Sea!!)

Yippee....what a great birthday!