tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30237592910044916792024-02-08T14:37:15.938+13:00The Life of RileyThe Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-13419524215345203292020-10-09T17:00:00.005+13:002020-10-11T08:59:35.828+13:00 RILEY (24 Sept. 2006 - 23 Sept. 2020) <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1K5NOkcpL0Ox0NNg7mfzfB8-lzc9IJEO95MUucJUXD1Mbp6wWjsd220d5NalQ7R65y1RaMMgpd84h0iD9s6yvTjLtuwXaAxu0gkpwm0nVoegMu-h_X0_Q5CNHPUVYt5gXSLwZY-O3INH_/s2048/Riely+L.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1K5NOkcpL0Ox0NNg7mfzfB8-lzc9IJEO95MUucJUXD1Mbp6wWjsd220d5NalQ7R65y1RaMMgpd84h0iD9s6yvTjLtuwXaAxu0gkpwm0nVoegMu-h_X0_Q5CNHPUVYt5gXSLwZY-O3INH_/s320/Riely+L.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">My beautiful boy crossed the rainbow bridge one day short of his 14th birthday. Like all dogs "he was here for a good time, but not for a long time" and I really miss him being beside me. My house is now quiet, but it was his time to go. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">T</span><span style="font-family: arial;">hank you to everyone who has read and commented on Riley's blog over the last ten years. Sharing his life with you, reading your comments and reading your blogs has meant a lot to me. </span></p>The Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-43528427615842836412019-11-13T17:07:00.000+13:002019-11-13T17:07:20.432+13:00Wordless Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />The Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-23696172624268006572019-09-02T09:25:00.002+12:002019-09-02T09:25:37.469+12:00Our carbon paw-print<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spring in New Zealand... what more could Enzo and I want than a walk in our favourite park to sniff the daffodils and see the lambs. </span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #274e13;">(That's me standing.. I'm almost 13 years old now!)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However in the news was an Australian <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/how-big-is-your-pet-s-environmental-paw-print-20190830-p52mbz.html" target="_blank">article</a> saying <i>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">According to research published in the </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333;">New Scientist</span></i><span style="color: #333333;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">, the carbon footprint of a sports utility vehicle driven for 10,000 kilometres for a year is about less than half of a medium sized dog like a labrador or a </span><span style="background-color: white;">Golden Retriever</span><span style="background-color: white;">"</span></i><span style="background-color: white;"> suggesting dogs and cats should become vegan or be replaced by more environmentally friendly pets like lizards to save the planet! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Our human (who has no human young ones creating their own foot prints) says she prefers walking with us to driving four SUV's and chooses to do other things for the planet, so for now we don't have to become vegan dogs. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Perhaps this is a future topic for our old friend <a href="https://bouncingbertie.blogspot.com/">Bertie</a> (aka Blogville's Scientific Advisor) to investigate even if it is just to check if his own carbon paw-print is the same as a Mini car. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you think? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Love and woofs,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Riley the non-vegan Golden Retriever</span></span></div>
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The Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-57034240461833855502018-01-20T19:45:00.000+13:002018-01-21T19:20:54.914+13:00Surprise… you never know when I might pop up again!<br />
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says that our Explorer Tent Set, bought at the local hardware store, is suitable for 3-8 year olds but Enzo turned 7 in
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the top by the one who is cast on the couch watching TV in the family room (a.k.a. the boy's room), so I’ve taught Enzo how
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Just a quick post to say I am still here even though I don't blog much anymore. It is now summer in NZ. Look what I found last Sunday... a huge pom pom! <br />
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The one who feeds me told me she used to make pom poms when she was a little girl. This one is made up of over 3000 pom poms and is called "Pop! Bang! Boom!" It is part of the biannual "Sculpture in the Gardens" exhibition currently on at the Auckland Botanic Gardens.<br />
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RileyThe Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-14196678026156413952017-05-10T07:00:00.000+12:002017-05-10T14:37:20.304+12:00Wordless Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not a single bark as we fight for Ted. I have the blue collar and Enzo has the black collar.</div>
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and Riley both say "Woof". </div>
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These original works are called <i>“Towel at back door 1”</i>, <i>“Towel at back door 2”</i> (below),</div>
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<i>"Towel at back door 3" </i>(below)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">and “<i>New dog-deck day 1”</i>. </span><i></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As you can see I am creating a series of abstract “PRINTS” and having fun experimenting using our hallway, living room and kitchen floors. Enzo is literally following in my footsteps adding to my designs with his tiny feet! <span style="font-family: "calibri";"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I then shake of my fine fur coat (spraying mud and water everywhere) and hear loud screams of delight from my human. She's told me she will save the photos of her walls for another day. I wonder why? </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So what do you think of my art and can you guess what season it is where I live? </span></div>
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The Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-73575366859770064412015-01-13T10:09:00.002+13:002015-01-13T10:09:41.717+13:00New Zealand has The Best Ball Boys in the World <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy New Year! Enzo and I are still here, and are both well. Since I last posted I turned eight in September and Enzo celebrated his 3rd birthday two weeks ago. Time flies. We haven't posted for ages. Have you forgotten us? We hope not. Every once in a while our Personal Assistant (a.k.a. Dogsbody) looks at our favourite dog blogs and tells us about what our good friends in Blogville are up to. Unfortunately she is very hard to train beyond the basics of feeding us on demand, opening and closing doors for us several hundred times a day, taking us for walks, buying us toys, playing games with, brushing us, driving us around town, positioning her feet for us to lie on, collecting our fur from the floor, taking us to the beach and on holiday, etc. We keep trying to teach her new tricks like "write more frequently about us on our blog" but she gets easily distracted and mutters something about all the other things on her Roundtuit List. Maybe this year we will get her better trained!<br />
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In the meantime, Enzo and I have developed a new interest in tennis (including watching the "Heineken Open" which is currently being played here) after seeing this video for the "2015 ASB Classic" in Auckland last week. Venus Williams won.<br />
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Riley and EnzoThe Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-24826938117928437322014-07-19T14:58:00.000+12:002014-07-19T15:05:47.018+12:00Where's Riley?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />The Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-20689306438602438082014-07-11T19:05:00.003+12:002014-07-11T19:05:29.073+12:00Hibernation and a big black bird<br />
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Enzo and I are both well. We've been hibernating for winter. It is warm inside and our beds are comfy, although we are happy to play outside in the rain too, which is why we sleep with extra towels and easily washable covers on our beds.<br />
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Hopefully we will be back to posting about our adventures soon.<br />
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In the meantime I thought I'd tell you the biggest black bird flew overhead today... it was above the clouds so all we could see was a dark shadow with a strange sound. It was the first Boeing 787-9 to be delivered in the world. The Dreamliner came to our small country all the way from Seattle! *<br />
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My mum, who is not normally a plane spotter, told me way back when the first Concorde came to Auckland and she and her father climbed onto the roof of their house to see it fly over. They weren't mad - other neighbors were standing on their rooftops to to get the best view as the plane circled around Auckland. Then when she worked in London in the late 80's/early 90's every night around seven a Concorde would fly over, so to her it became just another plane. One day there will be more of these big black birds here (as our airline has ordered ten) but for now having one here is somehow really special.<br />
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*Video of the plane <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/10257409/Air-NZs-787-9-has-landed-at-Auckland-Airport" target="_blank">landing </a>and inside the bird. Photo above is off the <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11291471" target="_blank">NZ Herald website</a> <br />
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Last weekend I was away at the bach ("bach" is the Kiwi term for a small holiday house) sleeping under the stars (on the deck on soft outdoor furniture - normally I'm an inside dog), enjoying BBQ food, going for long walks with Enzo and my humans, meeting other dogs on the beach, going for swims and even chasing Enzo and seagulls up the estuary (which is on the other side of the peninsula).<br />
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I ask you, what more could this Golden Retriever want than to spend summer by the sea? I'm counting down the days until we escape Auckland and go there again.<br />
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Enjoy your weekend wherever you are,<br />
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Woofs,<br />
Riley<br />
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<br />The Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-14870651594353614192013-09-27T18:30:00.000+12:002013-09-27T19:09:13.313+12:00And now for something completely different...here are some old photos of me, taken in 2010, when I was four which is a few years ago as I turned seven this week!<br />
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I had a sore back and one of my back legs wasn't too good, so after x-rays and talking to my vets my human took me to a heated dog swimming pool, where a nice lady dressed me in a fancy red coat, and then got in the water with me. I had so much fun fetching my floating toy that I forgot I was exercising!<br />
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share two links to the story (</span><a href="http://www.3news.co.nz/Dog-saves-cat-by-donating-blood/tabid/423/articleID/309806/Default.aspx" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">TV3 news</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11111555" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">"The New Zealand Herald"</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">) and ask what your relationship with cats (or
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I normally just watch my neighbors cats </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wandering across our property or sauntering up and down beside the fence </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">without much interest. If I had to choose between getting close to a cat or getting some dog food I would choose dog food every time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">However Enzo runs as fast as he can to great any cats that come over to visit, then after they get run to the other side of the fence, he runs back and forth beside the fence and woofs as loud as he can at the cat (or cats) on the other side. This always makes one of the cats return to the fence to try to pat his nose with her paw through the fence palings.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i> (Puppy Enzo meeting our grandparent's cat</i></span><i style="color: blue;">)</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our mum hears the noise, then rushes outside worried by what Enzo is up to or what he might do. She waves her arms around a lot, and make even louder noises as she calls Enzo away from the fence! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So what do you do when you see another species close to you, and would you give them your
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some photos from our winter walk this morning around <a href="http://www.cornwallpark.co.nz/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cornwall Park</span></a>. This is one of my favorite places to walk in Auckland, and I've posted about this park before (<span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://rileytheretriever.blogspot.co.nz/2010/05/climbing-volcano-my-sunday-walk.html" target="_blank">Climbing a volcano</a>, <a href="http://rileytheretriever.blogspot.co.nz/2012/07/winter.html" target="_blank">Winter</a>, <a href="http://rileytheretriever.blogspot.co.nz/2011/05/my-sunday-walk-in-park.html" target="_blank">My Sunday walk in the Park</a>, <a href="http://rileytheretriever.blogspot.co.nz/2011/09/spring-is-here.html" target="_blank">Spring is here</a></span>) if you want to check out the view from the top, and what the park looks like in other seasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As long as dogs are on a lead we can go where ever we want to including in paddocks that have sheep, cattle and even roosters! There are so many smells to explore, things for me to sniff out and roll in. However my human always finds it amusing that she has to carry plastic bags to collect any deposits Enzo and I make (and then place these bags inside a green dog) while carefully watching where she walks so she doesn't step in the massive cow deposits and what the sheep have left behind in the same field!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PS On our everyday walks around the neighborhood mum always uses plastic bags to tidy up after us so the streets are left clean. At this park she also always cleans up after us, but she is amazed by how much the cows and sheep leave on the grass that doesn't need to be picked up. Of course, for our noses, what the sheep and cows leave behind is extra interesting!</span>The Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-85885920216939974152013-06-18T20:38:00.004+12:002013-06-18T20:38:44.681+12:00The cat got my tongue but now I’m back.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the blogs I follow is <a href="http://butterfly-wyldechylde.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/funday-monday.html" target="_blank">Sprinkles </a> and today Sprinkles had a list of questions posted by <a href="http://curiousasacat.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/week-number-375.html" target="_blank">“Curious as a Cat”</a>. My human and I enjoyed reading what Sprinkles wrote, so I thought I
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Famous. I am already rich as I have enough food to make me
fat (if I eat too much), a warm bed, lots of toys, my own vehicle (complete with a chauffeur), Enzo to play with and a family that loves me so famous (even if it
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My dad - he was born and lived in England and I have never
met him. My actual mum and I were whelped and raised in New Zealand. My mum has
never met my dad - note even seven years ago. Go figure! It must be true because his name is on my pedigree. One
day when I am old enough I will understand. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it came with an old timber kennel in the back yard. My
humans saw the kennel</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as a sign to get their first Golden Retriever and he used the
kennel for twelve years. The kennel is still there looking very weathered and has plants growing beside it. I have lived here for six and a half years but have never spent one night outside in that kennel.
I was meant to sleep outside, but I convinced my family to let me sleep inside the their house on a soft dog bed in the family room unless we are away at the beach when I sleep on the porch. Here in Auckland I’m still working on being allowed to sleep in their
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now where did that <a href="http://curiousasacat.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/week-number-375.html" target="_blank">cat</a> go? While I'm looking for the cat why don't you wander over to <a href="http://butterfly-wyldechylde.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/funday-monday.html" target="_blank">Sprinkles</a> blog and check out her answers as they are so different to mine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">In posting these photos mum remembered the lyrics of that classic 1970’s
song by “The Cars”. The lyrics sort of fit what Enzo and I get up to when we each get a cardboard roll (the long tube from the inside of
things like kitchen tin foil, Gladwrap plastic film, baking paper, etc.). </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mum
only saves the really tough ones, and when there are two tubes we both let the good
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We leap about all excited, and I shred mine to pieces as fast as I can. Shredding things makes me so happy! </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Enzo runs outside and uses his roll as a stick for a game of fetch with the two legged ones. Eventually, when Enzo tires, I chase after him, bark loudly (hardly unable to contain my excitement), chase him around the lawn a few times, then steal his roll and shred it too! </span><br />
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Let them knock you around<br />
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The Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-81216938725097686282013-01-17T14:55:00.001+13:002013-01-18T09:09:25.502+13:00Video of a three legged robber - so what do you steal?We barked out loud at this news item about a dog here in New Zealand who was filmed stealing dog food from the local shop, while his owners were away on holiday.<br />
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Seeing Oscar made my mum think about how her first dog used to steal toast. Her old toaster would randomly fire pieces of toast onto the kitchen floor at a ratio of about one piece sent into the air for every six times she toasted bread. If she went out of the kitchen and toast fired onto the floor would diappear before she could get to it to give it to the birds!<br />
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Enzo is well known for his tissue stealing ability. No tissue is safe in the pockets of humans who are sitting down. He generally leaves most other things around the house, but if when he finds empty socks he takes them back to his bed!<br />
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So what do you steal, and have you ever been caught on camera?The Life of Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03042517508689233894noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023759291004491679.post-74272212659249224522012-12-24T12:52:00.000+13:002012-12-24T12:52:26.369+13:00Seasons Greetings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is summer here in New Zealand, and Enzo and I have been enjoying a pre-Christmas holiday at the beach. A week of swimming, wave jumping, chasing toys, running in the sand, long walks, BBQ food and sleeping on the deck under the stars. <br />
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