27th March



Lexus and his ball



A bleary eyed blog on the morning the clocks go forward!

I love this time of year and always think it will be ok to lose an hours sleep, after all, it is spring! However, when it comes to it it's so hard. I think the winter takes it toll on you and we are all feeling pretty low this time of year. Not to mention the effect on babies and young children and of course our pets!

The dogs have been out of routine here this week already. It started when Spryte had a flea treatment applied so we swapped her with Lexus to sleep in the crate overnight. Despite reminding my husband to close the kitchen door, he forgot and we were woken by whining and barking at 6am. I think we ignored it, to our cost, and when we eventually gave in and came down we found they had messed in the living room and tipped the dog food bin ( which was on a chair ) all over the kitchen floor! This was right next to poor Sapphire, one can only imagine what she thought!

The next morning we were woken again at 6am by Lexus making his unique cries. This time I leapt out of bed and took them down the garden to avert disaster, which turned out to be not a moment too soon as Lex was still feeling the over indulgence of the previous morning!

Saturday morning it was only me who had to be up early but there was Lexus again before the alarm had gone off. I dragged myself up and took our three out to the garden. Back in and it's breakfast, the rest of the family were still sleeping but this is when Lexus launches himself forward barking furiously in anticipation of food, as I have spoken of before. We have tried to break him of this habit ( incidentally he never does it on holiday so it's definitely learnt behaviour ) but it is easier to stop him when there are more people around, but this morning I was alone. Due to the lay out of our kitchen you have to weave between work surfaces and table to get to the dog food by which time Lexus has launched himself from the place he was told to "Sit and wait," and is barking furiously in front of Sandy who now thinks this is what happens in the morning and joins in!

Needless to say I failed miserably and the rest of the house, and possibly half the street were disturbed yet again. Though I couldn't help admire the amount of energy he puts into this performance and the amount of belligerence displayed in not waiting quietly!

This morning however, we beat them to it, but though officially late morning it still feels like the crack of dawn."Yawn!"