


Who doesn’t love a 6am wake up call on a Bank Holiday Monday by the rustling sound of ridgebacks getting up to no good?! It was enough to springboard me out of bed this morning and get on with my day.
Obi, my male ridgeback had his head well and truly planted in my Hotel Chocolate patisserie chocolates. Bloody brilliant! Never mind the fact that chocolates are actually poisonous for dogs, they were a gift from my eldest son for my Birthday.
There are no words to explain my utter disappointment, more in me, I should know better than to leave an expensive box of chocolates within reach of gigantic paws.
I frogged marched them out of the house and into the boot of my car, grabbed a STRONG coffee en-route and decided to not let the chocolate fiasco spoil my Monday morning.
Fair play at 630am, it was beautiful out.
Nature was at its best, rabbits frolicking in the distant morning mist, with golden sunshine backlighting rows and rows of spiders webs, layered between the wild bushes and bramb…