pippy's puppies

Well, they're 2 weeks old today and have opened their eyes. They are sooo fat it's incredible that such a small dog like Pippy is able to keep them satisfied, they are cuter every day too and now they have their eyes open they look more like puppies. They aren't able to walk as such yet, I think they'll need to lose weight first 'cos they only have short legs like their mum. I'm not sure who they take after most- their dad, Coco, is a black cross breed, these seem to have a little more of their mum-particularly in their colouring. Here's one fatty.
We think we've got homes for 3 of them-which is good news. As you can see they are 4 strapping young lads.


Other news-well, last Monday I went on my first helicopter trip-which was pretty cool. I didn't get air sick like in the plane and we flew over my house-shame I didn't take the camera, which is always at work-next time I will. I think it'd be pretty cool to learn to fly a helicopter-but it's a little expensive to do it just for the hell of it, but I'll be going out again some day.

Woody's visit

Well I've got more photos of Pippy's puppies to show you-boy are they growing fast!!!! But they are such cuties-they'll be great when they open their eyes and begin playing.
Woody came over on Thursday for his first Grand Prix. We also went to a CorreFoc last night- which is a mad Catalan thing where they try and frighten small children with fireworks!!! IT WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED IN eNGLAND AND AS WITH ALL THINGS SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS-IT'S GREAT FUN!!!!



Today we were up nice and early-5:30am and went to Montmelo-we got there well before 7 and it was already busy-they were offering free breakie to those who got there before 9, so that encouraged the keen ones. It was sold out and the weather was great. we saw the GP2 race with a few "excursions" in our corner of the track.
The Porsche race was even more fun as several went off in front of us-unfortunately the photos I got were mainly of flying dust.
Woody and Gabi ready for the F1.

The Spanish equivalent of the Red Devils gave us a show, so now there follow sad photos of cars and planes-I'm becoming a bit of a train spotter as I get older.

This'll be Alonso's car next year-I hope it works better for him than for Kimi-it's a beautiful, sexy, sleek looking car tho'.


And here's the man winning-first Spanish driver to win at home-well done!!!!!

You deserve it. Top Banana!!!!!

I'm a granny

Pippy gave birth last night/this morning. I had taken her to the vet in the morning for an x-ray to see how many she was carrying andhow big they were. I got back from the race at about 11:30pm and she wasn't looking too hot so I made her comfortable in our room, she'd chosen her corner,and then it was a case of waiting. The first one was born going up for 1am, we had to help a little to get it out as it was the biggest. Mother nature kicked in and she knew exactly what to do.


The next two followed shortly after, the first two were dark brown, the third a pale blond colour. Here's a nice gory photo of number 3 just as it popped out.



Number 4 took a while to arrive as Pippy was now getting tired. But a little chocolate brown bundle eventually arrived. Here she iswaiting for number 4.

Unfortunately number 5 was born dead, it spent a long time in the birth canal, I suppose. but nevermind, we've got 4 beautiful little critters (which is plenty, thank you very much) and Pippy seems to be OK and regaining her strength slowly. So a about 5am we all went to bed. They didn't let me sleep much as they make a lot of noise for little things. We'll move them into Juancho's room later, it's warmer (cos of the terrarium) and quieter for now. I'll keep you posted on their progress.


It's been lovely watching her and it'scheered me up a bit because last week we lost Suds to an infection, so this just goes to prove that "life goes on".

Red Bull Air Race

Yesterday I went to watch "the Formula 1 of the Air", it's an acrobatic race for light aeroplanes that go over 400 km/h . It was pretty impressive I must say-there were about 1,300,000 people there apparently, good atmosphere and a warm evening to sit on the beach eating my butty watching the planes. The school I work at sponsored the only Spanish participant-unfortunately he didn't win. They had to fly around obtacles in the shortest time. I think I still prefer the F1 and that's next week!!!! Don't worry I'll post photos.
The Barcelona metro system couldn't cope with all the people, I ended up walking from Placa Catalunya to the beach because I couldn't get into the metro stations, good job Gabi didn't go or he'd never have made it with his bad ankle.