Miss Lizzy welcomes Ziggy

Hello my Mum's Dear Readers.

Its ME, Miss Lizzy here to let you know that very exciting things have been happening at our place.

A nice lady came to the door with a little puppy that was wrapped up in a huge white fur coat.

I hoped that she would leave it behind.

AND she did!

Apparently the white fur coat is attached to the tiny puppy inside , who would have thought! 

 https://www.katashillviewkennels.com/

 

 

 

Now Me, Miss Lizzy, is going to become an investigative reporter, (Eat your heart out Leigh Sales, and Laura Tingle, Miss Liz is on the case!).

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Miss Lizzy:- Hello Mum, Its Miss Lizzy here to interview you about our new puppy. Firstly can you tell me a bit about the background of getting this fluffy puppy?

 

Kim:- Thank you Miss Lizzy for the question.  Do you remember how sad you were when Teddy died?

 

Miss Lizzy:- Oh Mum, I was so.so sad. Teddy had such a stinky cancer  on his head and then you took him away and he never came back.  I loved him so much. I suppose in my grief I ripped things apart and got distraught.

 

Kim:-  You certainly went feral... 

 

Miss Lizzy:- but you and my lovely Graham had decided not that long ago not to get another dog while I was alive, tell the readers what changed?

 

Kim:- Good question Miss Lizzy. On the day Teddy died I browsed on Gumtree and saw a fluffy puppy who was $1500.00, As soon as I saw him online I thought he looked like a Ziggy. (The Psychic child makes itself known again).   I wasn't a serious buyer, just window shopping, its true  that we had decided that we didn't want another dog just yet. 

 

(Below photo from Kata's Hillview ad).

 

  

Miss Lizzy- then we cried a lot Mum, I was sad. you are sad too. 

 

Kim:-  That's right Lizzy, everyone was very sad. Then I realised I had totally stuffed up the 2025 Christmas arrangements. (Hey my excuse is that  I'd just has a major surgery and then Teddy died, so I'm  not thinking properly). We ended up on our own and it was too late to travel south where we would have been welcome. All those lovely Christmases at Richardson ave where I cooked lots of nice things and now I see no-one (except Graham, but it must be sad for him too)  So, when people asked , at least I could use the excuse that we had a new puppy.

I thought,  I know what will make things better..

A PUPPY!

And he was still available. 

So I bought him ..  he was 4 months old When he he arrived on my 63rd birthday. 17th December.

 

Best Birthday present! 

 

 

He's a Bichon Frieze, with some Moodle and Cavalier King Charles. (like Georgie Girl)

 

I did wonder if this was a good thing to do, to buy a puppy, but he is so  lovely! He is friendly and loving, a cute little bit naughty and he loves his toys. 

 

 

Not like you Miss Liz who tried to dig under all the fences, jumped over the the handrails of the deck and jumped into the tub while I was bathing Georgie. Everyone and everything was awash.

 

Miss Lizzy:- This puppy might be my comeuppance for loving Georgie Girl so much when you adopted me. She was an old lady and I was a feral 7 month old pup.

 

Above Lizzy and Ziggy.

 

Above Georgie Girl and Puppy Miss Lizzy.
 

 

Miss Lizzy:-You gave him a silly name tell me about that Mum... 

 

Kim:- We named him Ziggy, inspired by the David Bowie rock opera character from the 1970's. Ziggy Stardust.

 

 

Miss Lizzy:- Now lets hear from the pup of the moment...Hello Ziggy, share your thoughts about living here with us?

 

Ziggy:- I soo love it in my new home, there are lots of toys and I looove Mum and Graham. Miss Lizzy, you are so special, so gentle with me and you look after me. I look after you too...  Mum jokes that I am your emotional support dog! And thats okay.

 

 

Miss Lizzy:- Well it looks like my Mum has a candidate for a new doggie blogger when I retire . 

 

Ziggy:- I love the backyard and the birdies are fun to chase. 

 

Miss Lizzy:- Ha ha, they haven't yet told you about going to the vets for a little snip? I hope you come back okay, I will be beside myself with worry that day!

 

 

Thanks Liz, I will take the post back from here. Apart from house training, which has good days and bad days, things are going much better than I imagined. 

Welcoming Ziggy into our lives was a Good Thing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vale Teddy November 2025

We have tragically had Teddy put to sleep on the 20th November 2025. He was 12.

 

He died of this horrible carcinoma on his head. 

 

Usually, it would be Miss Lizzy taking over this post but she is too distraught.

I've never had another dog go into mourning like this.

 

Its all so sad.

 

 Here are my last photos of Tiny Teddy and the progression of his cancer during 2025...

 

 

 

 

 

The saddest thing was that he never lost his bounce, even on the last morning taking him to the vets.

But the cancer was annoying him, he kept scratching at it,  and it was getting more and more smelly.

 

He had a very dignified death.

 

He was awake right until the end despite the sedation and he knew we were with him.

He fell asleep for the final time and I caught his little head in the palm of my hand. Even the vets were moved by that, and damn I'm tearing up again..

 

Miss Lizzy HAS lost her bounce. She is so distressed and anxious that we are at our wits end.

He's been cremated and is back at home with the other doggie ashes. 

 

Lets finish with a lovely pic of Ted from 2018. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Winter Wonderland! (Maybe not). Saturday 2nd August 2025

Boy, did it snow. This is the heaviest snowfall in Armidale since the 1980's.

It started off fluffy, nice and pretty..

 It confused a Magpie.

 Then it didn't stop.

 We wouldn't have got out of the driveway.

I'm glad I am now retired as it would have been a nightmare trying to get nurses into town to work. 

Also getting them home from work. I imagine there were a lot of double shifts that weekend.

That's our red roof completely white.

The roads are all closed, people are stuck on highways.

THEN THE POWER WENT OUT!

We were lucky that ours was only off for several hours, but many people had no power for days.

There have been so many horror stories of older people stuck at home with no heating. 

THANK YOU to the poor essential energy people having to go out and do their best to fix things with impassable roads and in dreadful conditions. 

Hi my Mum's Dear Readers,

It's Miss Lizzy here to tell you how much I luvvved the snow!

It was sooo much fun.

At 4 o'clock, when we took Graham out for a play, 

he'd throw our toys and the toys disappeared into the snow!

I had to dig around to find it, snow flew around everywhere, hilarious!  

I got covered  in snow. Mum said I looked like a big snowball.

 

Teddy didn't like it, it was too close to his undercarriage.

 

Did you know that I think it is my job to monitor the goings on in the park next door?

 

When people visited the park to look at the snowy view 

I had to lope down the hill, barking, to let them know I was keeping an eye on them.

 

 

Then I found that the snow came up further than my leg pits and it was hard work getting back up the hill because I needed to jump through it.

 

I can eat snow, its a bit cold like ice cream, but tastes like water.
 

Until next time

Love and (cold) wet noses from

Miss Lizzy

 

I'll take the blog back now, thanks Miss Liz for your thoughts on the snow event.

You can see how heavy it was by how the tree branches are weighed down.

The trees that suffered the most were the pine trees, surprisingly for trees from the northern hemisphere huge trees just collapsed, in a concertina effect. What a mess and the whole town smelt like pine.

Wattles didn't fair well either, but the biggest damage was to the gums. Branches down everywhere. A lot of branches were just bent but when we had big winds a couple of weeks later huge limbs where crashing down. A month on its still bad, dying branches are everywhere.

Worse was damage to peoples roofs, gutters, collapsed sheds, the roads are a mess. Everything's a mess.It was just a total disruption to normal life.

Then Sunday morning all silence under a blanket of snow. (See first photo of the post as well).

It was gone by the end of the day and melted into great rivulets of water and slush.

 

 

And in the End.....

We are home and two doggies are very pleased to see us.

Although they had lost a lot of weight at the kennel. Teddy was extremely thin (he has cancer, see the growth on his head, we are letting nature take its course). The vet said that Miss Lizzy is still a butterball even though she lost 1kg. Running around all day and no treats was the cause. They have gained all the weight back now and Teddy is still going okay. 

 

The fuffies all made it home as well as the little carpet we bought in Egypt.

 This has been epic work recording this trip and when I get a moment I'll go back and do some editing and fix the typos and spelling mistakes. 

I've also made a small donation to Wikipedia for their assistance with facts.

Now I have a big backlog of posts! I'll try to get up to date before I go into hospital to get the dodgy hip fixed.

Next posts are concerts and trip to Melbourne. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Hip to be square' December 2023

Sorry everyone and Dear Readers.

Its taken months to photograph and post about this quilt as the weathers been either pouring rain, blowing a gale or too bright and sunny which makes washed out colour in photos.

Last time I attempted to take photos,

 it blew off the line and sailed halfway across the yard landing on the wet grass.

Here below is a previous attempt to take photos in the howling wind and when the grass was green.

This is my take on a granny square crochet rug.

Hence the name hip to be square.

No fabric used twice. 

 I did my old trick of buying a wide back backing fabric and using it on the front and back.

This fabric was from the Basic Grey Grunge collection and has a lovely silky feel.

I chose a hippy daisy quilt pattern. 

And I am going to cheat and backdate this blog to a time when the grass was greener!

 

I have 2 more finished quilts ready to post about.

But first to catch up with other events in 2024....