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Soggy doggy
One of the local garden centres is having a big sale, and I wanted to get some plants, so we thought we'd go along.
The garden centre is quite near to Canterbury, by the river. We've been thinking about going to see the river meadows are a good place to take Jo when it's hot, so we thought's we'd combine the two things with each other and with today's walk.
About thirty seconds after we got there, Jo was in the river chasing ducks. Sigh. After a moment of looking confused when she realised she was swimming, not wading, she climbed back out again and shook herself everywhere. A few minutes later, she was back in it again, but this time at a less good spot: fortunately, she managed to hook a leg over a tree root for long enough that I could get down to the water and grab her collar to help her out, but I think she scared herself a bit because she didn't really try to get back in after that.
Still, in summer the water will be lower and less fast-flowing, so I think that it is a good spot to take her to for a cool down. On the minus side, there's not much in the way of parking: we parked in some nearby woods, and the journey from one to the other was quite steep (with the up on the way back) and involved crossing roads that had actual cars on them. Apparently you're allowed to park in the Staples car park to go to the river, though, so I think we'll try that next time and be at the other end of the meadows.
And then we went to the garden centre, where they had a nice display at the front with precisely one each of several varieties of dogwood. I picked up the two colours I wanted and we went on, assuming that somewhere out back would be the rest of the plants (and that a member of staff would be muttering about inconsiderate customers messing up the nice arrangement and making them have to re-stock it), but it turned out that that was it. Oh well, guess I'll have to order them online (where the sale isn't), but at least I got to check the colours, which was the main point. Also picked up a couple of white cyclamen (we have a nice big patch, but they are stubbornly all the same shade of pink) and 70%-off crackers (that appear to actually have nice gifts in them) for New Year.
There's a mysterious smell of wet dog in the room. I can't imagine what's causing it.
The garden centre is quite near to Canterbury, by the river. We've been thinking about going to see the river meadows are a good place to take Jo when it's hot, so we thought's we'd combine the two things with each other and with today's walk.
About thirty seconds after we got there, Jo was in the river chasing ducks. Sigh. After a moment of looking confused when she realised she was swimming, not wading, she climbed back out again and shook herself everywhere. A few minutes later, she was back in it again, but this time at a less good spot: fortunately, she managed to hook a leg over a tree root for long enough that I could get down to the water and grab her collar to help her out, but I think she scared herself a bit because she didn't really try to get back in after that.
Still, in summer the water will be lower and less fast-flowing, so I think that it is a good spot to take her to for a cool down. On the minus side, there's not much in the way of parking: we parked in some nearby woods, and the journey from one to the other was quite steep (with the up on the way back) and involved crossing roads that had actual cars on them. Apparently you're allowed to park in the Staples car park to go to the river, though, so I think we'll try that next time and be at the other end of the meadows.
And then we went to the garden centre, where they had a nice display at the front with precisely one each of several varieties of dogwood. I picked up the two colours I wanted and we went on, assuming that somewhere out back would be the rest of the plants (and that a member of staff would be muttering about inconsiderate customers messing up the nice arrangement and making them have to re-stock it), but it turned out that that was it. Oh well, guess I'll have to order them online (where the sale isn't), but at least I got to check the colours, which was the main point. Also picked up a couple of white cyclamen (we have a nice big patch, but they are stubbornly all the same shade of pink) and 70%-off crackers (that appear to actually have nice gifts in them) for New Year.
There's a mysterious smell of wet dog in the room. I can't imagine what's causing it.