An Italian parcel, an Aussie pet store & a Chinese New Year parade!

The weather this week has been AWFUL.

First, it was horribly, horribly hot – our thermometer said 33°C (92°F) INDOORS! – and we have no AC machine in this house in Sydney. My human, Hsin-Yi, opened every window & door in our house but even the breeze that blew through the house was HOT AIR!! :-(   Me & Muesli barely had energy to do anything…we just spent our whole day doing this:

My humans couldn’t even sleep at night because they felt like they were burning up. Hsin-Yi kept getting up in the middle of the night & going to the bathroom to splash water on herself and wet her arms & feet, because then she would feel a little bit cooler in bed while the water was evoporating! :roll:

And then, suddenly, in the middle of the week, the horrible hot weather went away but we got THIS instead!

Hmm...I am NOT convinced...

ALL DAY!!!!

It has been raining non-stop since Wednesday. Which means a lot of VERY wet walks for me… :-(

Honestly, I told Hsin-Yi it doesn’t matter – I really don’t need to go out walking in the rain – but she said snootily ”We’re not fair-weather walkers!” - and that it’s really important for us doggies (no matter what size!) to go out a bit every day, if possible. Even just for a very short walk. Just to stretch our legs & have a change of scene. It’s good for our bodies and  good for our minds (and good for our humans too!). They only skip my walk if somebody is sickie or the weather is really bad.

My humans believe that having regular exercise every day (even just a little bit!) is better than having days of doing nothing at all and then suddenly doing huge hikes or big running & playing (that’s how you get injured easily)…just like how it’s better for humans to do a bit of walking every day rather than a crazy gym session once a week. They think this is one of the reasons I’ve remained so fit & agile and kept in very good condition, even as a senior doggie. And it’s good for my “mental well-being” too – no matter how big our house, it’s not good for us doggies to be cooped up in the same place all day – and a healthy mind leads to a healthy body! ;-)

But don’t worry – I have had some ‘dry’ adventures too! Hee! hee! :P One of them was visiting a big pet store near us. It’s called PETstock and you might remember we went to one of its shops back in Newcastle but this was the first time we visited one in Sydney.

It was great – nice & big & roomy with wide aisles to walk down (my humans don’t like taking me to small, cramped pet stores coz it’s really hard for me to turn & move around in there – and not enough space if we meet a strange doggie!) and the Staff Humans were so friendly!

They gave me lots of treats just for “being gorgeous” – hee! hee! :twisted:

We had a good time checking out all the cool doggie stuff…

…and we were really pleased to see that they stocked my Raw Diet BARF patties! (I have Raw Meaty Bones like chicken wings or lamb brisket for my breakfast in the mornings but I have BARF patties for my dinner in the evenings.  They are ground meat & bone, mixed with veggies like broccoli, celery, spinach & carrot; fruits like apple, pear, grapefruit & orange; offal like beef kidney, heart & tripe and some other good things like flax seeds & garlic. They come in different flavours, like Lamb, Pork, Beef, Rabbit, Kangaroo or  Chicken – my favourite is the Combo flavour! :D . My humans usually also give me a bit of wholegrains with my patties, like oatmeal or brown rice, and sometimes a raw egg or some healthy leftovers.) Oh, of course, on Sundays I get oily fish, like sardines or mackerel!

I also met a couple of young fans! :P

They were very nice, well-trained human-pups who knew how to behave around doggies. I showed them a couple of my tricks and they gave me some treats!

OK, time to pay for our stuff now…

Ooh…what’s that? Would I like more treats? Don’t mind if I do! :D

I like this pet store! I sure hope we come here again soon! :P

(I wish they’d do something about the slippy floors though! Even when I was sitting, I kept sliding backwards! ;-) Look at my back legs all splayed out in this picture!)

Well, aside from my exciting visit to the pet store, I also had another exciting thing happen…I got a parcel from Italy!

It was from my great friend, Lucille the Italian Dane.

Do you remember when my humans were visiting France last year and Lucille’s humans had specially driven all the way from Italy to France just to meet up with them?

Well, Lucille was wearing her beautiful chain collar. Hsin-Yi had always admired this collar – she thinks us Danes have such long, graceful lines in our bodies, it’s a shame to break them – and she likes the way a chain sits at the base of our necks, like a necklace, and doesn’t break the line of our necks, the way thick buckle collars do. Even when I wear my blue daisy buckle collar, I have it on very, very loose, at the base of my neck. (of course, a lot of times when posing for photos, it looks best to have NO collar at all! :P And since I’m very good about obeying Hsin-Yi – hands-free! – it doesn’t really matter what kind of collar I’m wearing, if any! ;-) )

Lucille’s collar was very pretty – it is a double row of silver chains and is a martingale-style collar.

Well, Lucille & her human had remembered Hsin-Yi admiring it and guess what? They got the same collar and sent it all the way to Australia for me!

I love it! Don’t you think it looks just like a silver necklace? Matches my silver hairs, I think! ;-)

And Muesli got a new collar too! Lucille got her a really pretty ‘girly’ collar with little pink ribbons all around. (I don’t know who got more excited about this collar… Muesli or Paul! :roll: )

And they hadn’t forgotten Hsin-Yi either! Lucille’s human had bought her a lovely woolly hat & special gloves, in one of Hsin-Yi’s favourite colours: turquoise! It’s a bit hot now still for Hsin-Yi to wear them - hee! hee! – but when winter comes in June, she’ll be getting them on!

Finally, some of you may know that it was Chinese New Year – the Year of the Dragon – recently. My humans didn’t do much to celebrate this year. Last year, in Newcastle, Hsin-Yi had made a special Chinese New Year dinner with the special foods you eat for good luck (well, OK, she cheated and ordered 1/2 of it from takeaway! ;-) ) – and I got to taste spring rolls and even some special sticky Chinese New Year cake! (if you missed that post, you can read it here)

But this year, she was really busy and didn’t feel like doing much at all. (Although she did take care not to wash her hair or throw out any rubbish or do any cleaning on Chinese New Year Day (23rd Jan)…otherwise, you’ll wash/sweep all your good luck away! ;-) ) The one thing she did do, though, was get a little pot of Lucky Bamboo!

Chinese humans often give Lucky Bamboo to each other at Chinese New Year – it is supposed to be very good Feng Shui. It is “lucky” because it brings all the 5 elements: Fire, Earth, Wood, Metal & Water into balance, in your home. The Wood is the bamboo, the Water is the water it grows in, the Fire is the red ribbon that the bamboo stalks are tied with and the Metal is the little metal coin on the pot.

Chinese people also love bamboo in general – because of its special meanings. Bamboo is very, very strong and grows very straight (“upright integrity”) but when a storm comes, it bends with the wind, only to spring up straight again when the storm is over. This is how Chinese people believe everyone should be:  ”to have the ability to cope with adversity and still stand firmly without losing its original ground” – to be flexible and open (hollow bamboo) to new ideas but at the same time, be strong & sure of yourself.

Even if you don’t believe all that stuff, lots of people like Lucky Bamboo because it is so pretty – the green looks so lovely in a room and the curly, spiral patterns are so beautiful; it doesn’t wither & die quickly like a vase of flowers and it’s so easy to grow – all it needs is a pot with stones and some water, and hardly any special care or fertilisers (especially good if you have Black Thumbs, like Hsin-Yi!! :roll: )

Oh, it isn’t curly naturally, by the way! You have to grow it in special ways to make it become like that – special Gardner Humans lay them on their sides and cover them up so that they only get sunshine from 1 side – so that they grow towards the light and against gravity! You have to rotate the plant slowly to get those beautiful curls & spirals, so it can take quite a long time to “make” Lucky Bamboo!

(* Actually, Lucky Bamboo is not really a bamboo at all! :lol: It’s proper name is ‘Dracaena sanderana’ and it’s a member of the lily family and in the wild, it grows in the dark, tropical forests of Africa & SE Asia. )

Well, although my humans didn’t celebrate much at home, they did go out to have a Chinese New Year dinner with my new friend, Boo the black Dane’s human, Sarah - in Sydney’s Chinatown

In case you’re wondering, yes, that was Paul showing Sarah how to use chopsticks properly…that’s because Hsin-Yi is hopeless and she uses her chopsticks wrong! 8-O She crosses them, instead of having them on top of each other, whereas Paul uses them the ‘correct’ way…half the time, Hsin-Yi asks for a fork anyway! :roll: Paul says she is an embarrassment to Chinese humans but Hsin-Yi says the important thing is to get the food into the mouth – who cares how it gets there? ;-)

WRONG way to hold chopsticks (and how Hsin-Yi holds them!!)

CORRECT way to hold chopsticks

* Images from http://ieatishootipost.sg/2009/05/how-do-you-hold-your-chopsticks-let-us.html

After dinner, my humans & Sarah went to watch the Chinese New Year parade. My humans had been to the parade once before, when they were living in Sydney 11yrs ago and that had been great – but this one was quite different and they were very disappointed! :-( They weren’t playing Chinese music a lot of the time (music like ”When the saints go marching in” and “Go west!” does NOT give the right atmosphere!! :evil: ) and a lot of the floats were really “commercial”, from companies that had nothing to do with Chinese stuff at all! :roll:

Also, the parade people weren’t very enthusiastic – even though they were dressed up in costumes, they were just walking around, looking bored and not doing much, which Hsin-Yi thought was shameful…if you’re going to take part in a parade, then you have to ‘peform’! Otherwise, why bother??

Anyway, Hsin-Yi managed to get some pictures – here are the best of the bunch!

I think I’m glad I stayed home with my Lucky Bamboo! :P

* ps. I don’t know why but the Spam filter on my blog seems to have gotten extra sensitive lately – a lot of my friends’ comments are ending up in there! :-( So don’t worry if your comment disappears after you click on “Post Comment” – it’s probably gone into the Spam folder – but we check that every day and we will fish it out! :P

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‘Mission Impossible: Drool Protocol’ (my Mango Minster 2012 entry)

I’ve finally finished it!! I have been working really hard on my Mango Minster entry – in the Adventure Animals category…

…well, I thought a movie was the best way to show you just what an Adventure Animal I am! ;-) And we have been rehearsing and filming and editing all week. Whew! Being an action adventure star sure is hard work – and just like Tom Cruise, I did all my own stunts! :D (Muesli wanted a body double but Hsin-Yi told her not to be so vain…)

My human, Hsin-Yi had all these grand ideas for the script but unfortunately, she ran out of time to teach me the new tricks needed and so we’ve had to make do with just “simple” stuff. (Well, I didn’t think I’d ever be able to climb up the tallest building in Sydney, no matter how long we had! ;-) )  She had to change a lot of the script too since she had all these ambitious ideas and then - ahem – things didn’t quite turn out as she planned! Hee! Hee! :lol: (well, this is what happens when you include cat actors…tsk…tsk..)

Most of the scenes were shot here in Sydney, although there were a few clips (the dunes & the river) from Newcastle and one clip from Brisbane of me galloping in the night! ;-)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it – and don’t forget to vote for ME when Mango Minster gets under way Feb 12 – 19! ;-)

If the movie won’t play, try it here: http://youtu.be/jrXP_pwJdOc

* For anybody who didn’t “get it”, the name of my movie is based on the latest MI film, which is called ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol’…and that was supposed to be my drool putting out the fire in the beginning! ;-)

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Meeting fans on Australia Day…

Yesterday was Australia Day! It was a Public Holiday and Paul wasn’t on-call, so he got the day off!  :P

We had a lazy morning at home together – then my humans went off to have lunch in a very yummy Taiwanese restuarant called Din Tai Fung (which is really famous for their “soup dumplings” – voted the tastiest in the world!) and then they went to the Art Gallery of NSW to see an exhibition by a famous Painter Human called Picasso

I don’t know what the fuss is about his paintings though – they all look very strange to me! With eyes in weird places and heads in weird shapes…and some just look like funny boxes stacked on top of each other… :-?

Well – I can do Art too! Look! Here is a picture of me…

…and here’s me as 3 different types of painting! ;-)

(If you want to turn yourself into a painting too, you can do it online here: befunky.com – and it’s all free! :P )

After my humans came home, they took me for my usual daily walk in the evening – it had been a very rainy, grey day but it was still very hot & humid, so it made me feel very panty. And even with the bad weather, there were still lots of people out celebrating…we passed by a big concert…and I also met some new fans! ;-)

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ps. A lot of you will know that one of the biggest events in Blogville is on right now! I’m talking about Mango Minister, of course! Don’t worry – I haven’t forgotten to enter – am working on my entry now but Hsin-Yi’s got a Big Idea so it’s taking a bit of time to put together…I’ll hopefully be able to show it to you soon! And if you haven’t entered, what are you waiting for? :P You can check out all the details here: http://mangominster.blogspot.com/2012/01/mango-minster-2012-official-rules-for.html - the deadline for entries is Feb 5th 2012 – so you’ve still got time!

pps. Hsin-Yi has been helping me catch up with your blogs & messages – but typing one comment after another (or one email after another) is the worst thing for her RSI ouchies…so she has been trying to use her Dragon Naturally Speaking voice recognition software as much as she can. But it does slow us down a lot and takes double the time to do everything. Plus it still gets a lot of words wrong – we try to check but sometimes we miss a few words so please forgive us if some of our comments sound a bit weird! :P Hsin-Yi also can’t do too much in one day – so I know we still owe a lot of people replies to messages but please bear with us; we’re getting there slowly!

 

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Wordless Wednesday: Organic Agility…


(Courses: Callan Park, Sydney / Heaton State Forest Park, NSW Central Coast / Foreshore Park, Newcastle / Horseshoe Beach, Newcastle )

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Solo Sydney Adventures…& Paul’s home at last!

"Just the 3 of us...!"

You know we had to move to Sydney in Dec last year because our Landlord Human in Newcastle wanted her house back early…but Paul’s job at the hospital in Newcastle didn’t finish until the end of Jan in this new year. So he had to remain in Newcastle while me & Muesli and Hsin-Yi moved to Sydney first.

So aside from the break over Christmas/New Year when he could come to stay with us, we have actually been all alone in Sydney for the last couple of months…(I didn’t tell you before ‘coz Hsin-Yi said my blog is “public” and it’s not a good thing to announce to everyone that she was a female human all alone in a big, strange, new city!)

At first, things were so crazy & busy with unpacking and The Shed and other problems & stuff that we didn’t really notice too much. And Hsin-Yi said it was sort of fun, in the beginning, living alone  – nobody to nag her for leaving her socks or unfinished cups of tea everywhere or see when she stayed up till 2am reading & eating snacks in bed! ;-) But it was also quite lonely and stressy too – ‘coz Hsin-Yi had to learn all the new things, find her way around a strange city, sort out problems and cope with everything herself. (And I had nobody to give me extra cuddles…and cookies!! :-( ) My humans didn’t really know anybody in Sydney. And because Paul was on-call, he couldn’t even come down on a lot of the weekends.

But we didn’t just stay home and mope! :D Hsin-Yi has been taking me on lots of new walks and solo adventures around the city – you know, taking me to explore new places together is her FAVOURITE thing to do!

For example, one of the cool new places we’ve discovered is Pyrmont! This is an area of Sydney quite close to the city centre and also near the water – and close to the famous Darling Harbour, one of the big tourist attraction areas of Sydney, with the Sydney Aquarium, Monorail, Maritime Mueseum and nearby Chinatown…


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There are lots of tall, swanky buildings (with wonderful views over the harbour – and back towards the city skyline too) and wide, beautiful clean streets to walk in (without grumpy doggies behind fences waiting to ambush us as we walk past! :evil: That’s why often Hsin-Yi prefers to take me walking in more ‘urban’, inner city areas, rather than in ‘suburbia’). There are lots of wharves there as well, which are lovely to walk along, and little marinas where you can see lots of pretty white boats called yachts…

We love walking along the wharves, feeling the breeze from the water and enjoying the views of the Sydney city skyline…

…and meeting some fans, of course!! :D

There are 2 really nice parks in Pyrmont: Giba Park, up on top of the cliffs (which allows doggies to run around off-leash!). It’s not a very big park but it does have fantastic views of the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge & city skyline.

The other park is called Pirrama Park, which is just underneath, around the foot of the cliffs. Doggies have to stay on-leash in this park, especially as there is a playground and lots of families with human pups there, but it doesn’t matter – it’s a really pretty park to walk along, anyway, even on leash - next to the water and leading to the wharves & marinas…

(* if you’re wondering why I’m off-leash in these photos, it’s ‘coz Hsin-Yi sometimes takes my leash off just for the pictures, ‘coz she thinks it’s a bit ugly and ruins the pictures! ;-) )

Although my humans didn’t really know anybody in Sydney when we arrived, thanks to my blog, we’ve made lots of new friends very quickly! :P

Of course, you all know my new toyboy – er, friend, Boo the black Dane, who has shown me so many wonderful, dogfriendly places to go.

And his human, Sarah, too has been really wonderful and helped Hsin-Yi lots with all the important pet information and other non-pet stuff too – and keeping Hsin-Yi from getting too lonely by taking her out to brunch and stuff on weekends! :D

But I’ve also made another lovely new friend through my blog – her name is Carmel and she can’t have doggies of her own yet ‘coz she works really long hours but she has spent lots of time looking after other people’s doggies back in the faraway place called Scotland and now, she looks after 2 Great Danes who belong to a friend, when they go away (and of course, she’s now in love with Danes!). That’s how she found me – when she was researching ‘Great Danes’ and found my blog! ;-)

Well, Carmel sent us a lovely message too when we arrived in Sydney and said she would love to come walking with us sometime. So last weekend, when me & Hsin-Yi decided to try another new walk from the Great Sydney Dog Walks  book, we asked Carmel (& her husband, Peter) if they’d like to come too!

We decided to do ‘Walk 6: The Harold Reid Foreshore Track, in Castlecrag’ – on the North Shore of Sydney.


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It was a really cool walk…like trekking in the real bush! :P

And there are really lovely views of Sugarloaf Bay as well, all along the track…

Of course, in Australia (unlike NZ, which has nothing poisonous), you have to be careful of dangerous spiders & snakes when you’re out walking in the bush, as well as the paralysis tick (which can kill doggies very quickly – all doggies need to be checked over after they have been walking in the bush & long grass). But mostly, Hsin-Yi says wild animals are more scared of you than you of them and they will run away if you make enough noise as you’re coming. Of course, you should still watch where you’re stepping carefully! :P

You have to be a pretty fit doggie (or human!) to do some parts of the walk – so this wouldn’t be a suitable gentle walk for fragile old doggies or doggies with ouchies. There are bits where you have to climb up the cliffs a lot or go down lots of steps…Hsin-Yi was a bit ashamed ‘coz she was huffing & puffing more than I was and in human years, I’m nearly 30yrs older than her - hee! hee! :lol:

At the end of the walk, we came to a place where the track cut right through the middle of a Giant Rock! It was very narrow & very steep and Carmel was worried that I wouldn’t be able to do it…but I soon showed her! ;-) Can you believe it, though – instead of being proud of what a cool Indianna Jones Doggie I am, Hsin-Yi was busy taking a picture of my bum!! :roll:

 The area all around the walk is a wildlife reserve so doggies must stay on-leash. We always try to follow these kinds of doggie laws as much as possible (especially in a place like Sydney which is so dogfriendly and provides so many great places for doggies to romp free – we think it’s only fair that we follow the rules when they ask it. Otherwise, that’s when people start getting grumpy and start BANNING doggies from places! 8-O So if all doggies & their owners could follow the rules and do the right thing, this will help keep more places welcoming doggies!)

But – there were some parts of the track which were very steep & quite difficult to get through and Hsin-Yi did let me off the leash in those parts because I have 4 legs and can climb faster than the humans – and it’s very uncomfortable (& dangerous!) for me if I’m being pulled back by the leash. Oh, and of course, also when she takes photos, to keep the ugly leash out of the picture ! ;-)

 I had a fantastic time on this new walk – and loved meeting my new friends, Carmel & Peter! I hope I get to go on a walk again with them soon!

So as you can see, I’ve been busy having lots of adventures while Paul was away…although I did still miss him awfully.

But this weekend, he’s finally finished his job in Newcastle and come home to Sydney to stay – and we are all together again! HURRAY!! :D He will be starting work in his new job at the hospital in Sydney on Monday…so we’ve been doing lots of catching-up this weekend! ;-)

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A Cemetery Playdate!

You know my new friend, Boo the black Dane, sure knows how to show a girl a good time. He’s been busy showing me some of the best dogfriendly places around Sydney since we moved here and has taken me to some really cool places.

But I’ll bet you’ll never guess where he took me on a playdate a couple of weeks ago…

…to a wonderfully creepy, spooky cemetery!!

Yup, Camperdown Cemetery isn’t really an official dog park but lots of people take their doggies there to run around. It is a lovely green space in the middle of busy, inner Sydney, surrounded by lots of small houses squashed together and other commercial buildings all around – so people really love it and take their families there for picnics and other fun events.

There are even supposed to be ghosts haunting the cemetery, you know…like a nurse lady who used to work in Sydney General Hospital (who some say still looks after people with sickies in the church nearby) and a man wearing a brown coat who sits on one of the graves and sometimes talks to human pups…

Well, I don’t sniff any ghosts – do you, Boo?

Boo? Boo? Where are you?? 8-O

Hee! Hee! ;-) Actually, the cemetery isn’t really creepy at all, especially in the morning sunshine…it’s more like a very pretty but unusual garden! :P

My humans found a lot of the writings on the graves and tombstones very interesting…but it was sad because most of the ages were quite young. Gosh, humans really didn’t live very long before, did they?

Of course, us doggies weren’t really interested in history…we were interested in PLAY!!

I had brought one of my tug toys to play with Boo. He hadn’t played Tug much but I told him it was one of my favourite games so he had to learn!! :twisted:

C'mon Boo! Just grab the end and PULL!

Yeah! You're getting the hang of it! :P

What d'you mean, "Let go"? YOU let go!

(My human thinks we look like "matched horses" pulling a carriage in this picture - ha! ha!)

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Boo told me that after his cemetery walk, he usually takes his human to a nearby cafe called Black Star Pastry which makes the yummiest pastries…

Oh yeah, Boo! Let’s go!!

To get to Black Star Pastry, we went a way that took us through a bit of King St - this is a famous street in Newtown FULL of restaurants and bars and cafes and other strange shops where people sell black clothes with lots of spikes and use sharp needles dipped in ink to draw pictures called tattoos on your skin…it’s a really buzzy-buzzy place after dark, with LOTS of people wearing weird clothes, with strange-coloured hair…but it was a bit quieter when we walked through it at 9am in the morning! :D

We still got a lot of ‘looks’ wherever we walked, though – from both humans and doggies! ;-) My humans said it’s always a sight to see Great Danes striding through an “urban environment”!

My human, Hsin-Yi, likes to always include some on-leash, pavement walks through more “urban” streets with traffic & people, as part of my roster of weekly walks.

This keeps up my socialisation and also reminds me to practise my leash-manners especially near crowds & distractions.

She thinks it isn’t good when doggies just get taken to an off-leash park every day and allowed to shoot off & just dash around, suiting themselves or play madly with other doggies all the time…if they do that all the time, they soon start to forget all their nice walking on leash! ;-)

Well, we soon reached the cafe…which was really busy!! Lots of people waiting in line to buy their yummy pastries or get a cup of tea or coffee.

There was only a little bit of space on the pavement in front of the cafe but me & Boo were very good and we sat politely in the corner, out of everybody’s way, while we waited for our humans to get the yummies. Lots of people walking past were smiling and looking at us, marvelling at how well-behaved we were – we were very good ambassadors for doggies! :D

Finally – the humans came out with plates of yummies. Oooh…that smells good!

 Oh! But wait! What is Hsin-Yi doing?! She isn’t sharing with me!! Mean, greedy, piggy Hsin-Yi was EATING ALL THE YUMMY HERSELF!!!! 8-O

No matter how much Sad Puppy Dog Eyes I gave her, she didn’t take pity on me…I told you she’s got a heart of stone!! :evil:

Paul felt sorry for me and went back into the cafe to buy a croissant especially for me. But I didn’t want a boring, plain croissant! I wanted what Hsin-Yi was having! Humph!

FINALLY!!!

Well, Hsin-Yi did give me half her pastry in the end so I decided to forgive her. And it was really delicious!! Slurp! :P

Thank you so much again, Boo, for taking me on yet another wonderful adventure!!

 

* The cemetery is the grey area inside Camperdown Memorial Rest Park


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Sorry, sorry! We still haven’t had time to come round and visit your blogs! :-( And I know we’re slow to answer emails & messages too. Hsin-Yi is back to work and has ‘deadlines’ again, so she hasn’t got so much free time to help me with blogging and stuff…but I promise we’ll catch up as soon as we can!

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